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Astronomically Calibrated 40ar/39ar Age For The Toba Supereruption And Global Synchronization Of Late Quaternary Records, Michael Storey, Richard Roberts, Mokhtar Saidin Mar 2013

Astronomically Calibrated 40ar/39ar Age For The Toba Supereruption And Global Synchronization Of Late Quaternary Records, Michael Storey, Richard Roberts, Mokhtar Saidin

Richard G Roberts

The Toba supereruption in Sumatra, ∼74 thousand years (ka) ago, was the largest terrestrial volcanic event of the Quaternary. Ash and sulfate aerosols were deposited in both hemispheres, forming a time-marker horizon that can be used to synchronize late Quaternary records globally. A precise numerical age for this event has proved elusive, with dating uncertainties larger than the millennial-scale climate cycles that characterized this period. We report an astronomically calibrated (40)Ar/(39)Ar age of 73.88 ± 0.32 ka (1σ, full external errors) for sanidine crystals extracted from Toba deposits in the Lenggong Valley, Malaysia, 350 km from the eruption source and …


Rock-Picture Chronologies And Palaeoenvironmental Records From Fossil Mud-Wasp Nests: Preliminary Investigations Using Optical Dating., Richard Roberts, Grahame Walsh, Jon M Olley, A Murray, M Macphail, I Naumann, Richard Jones, Michael Morwood Mar 2013

Rock-Picture Chronologies And Palaeoenvironmental Records From Fossil Mud-Wasp Nests: Preliminary Investigations Using Optical Dating., Richard Roberts, Grahame Walsh, Jon M Olley, A Murray, M Macphail, I Naumann, Richard Jones, Michael Morwood

Richard G Roberts

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