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The age and contemporary environments of Tower Volcano, Southwest Victoria, Australia

Sherwood, John, Oyston, B. and Kershaw, A. 2004, The age and contemporary environments of Tower Volcano, Southwest Victoria, Australia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 69-76.

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Title The age and contemporary environments of Tower Volcano, Southwest Victoria, Australia
Author(s) Sherwood, John
Oyston, B.
Kershaw, A.
Journal name Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
Volume number 116
Issue number 1
Start page 69
End page 76
Publisher The Society
Place of publication Melbourne, Vic.
Publication date 2004
ISSN 0035-9211
Keyword(s) radiocarbon
thermoluminescence
palynology
pollen
lake sediments
geochronology
Summary Tower Hill ash forms a useful chronological marker for archaeological and geological sites in the Warrnambool-Port Fairy area. The current paper establishes an age of 35 ±3 ka for the eruption of Tower Hill. Confidence in this age is provided by the agreement of results from three dating techniques on different types of material- accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating of lake core sediments in a crater of the volcano, conventional radiocarbon dating of plant remains in a palaeosol buried by volcanic ash and thermoluminescence dating of quartz grains in a sand covered by the ash. Palynological analysis of lake sediment indicates the presence ofa steppe-type vegetation at the time for which no present day analogue exists in Australia
Language eng
Field of Research 040314 Volcanology
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004185
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