Browsing by Author "Alloway, Brent V."

Now showing items 1-5 of 11

  • Colin George Vucetich (1918–2007)—pioneering New Zealand tephrochronologist

    Lowe, David J.; Tonkin, Philip J.; Neall, Vincent E.; Palmer, Alan S.; Alloway, Brent V.; Froggatt, Paul C. (Elsevier, 2008)
    Many Quaternarists, tephrochronologists, and soil scientists mourned the passing in New Zealand of Colin Vucetich—gentle mentor, pedologist, and pioneering tephrochronologist—on 25 April (Anzac Day), 2007. Colin was in his ...

  • Far-flown markers

    Lowe, David J.; Alloway, Brent V.; Shane, Phil A.R. (Geoscience Society of New Zealand with GNS Science, 2015)
    Tephras are fragmentary materials that are blasted explosively into the air during volcanic eruptions. Distributed throughout Zealandia, tephras provide useful markers for connecting and dating land surfaces, sediment ...

  • Far-flung markers

    Lowe, David J.; Alloway, Brent V.; Shane, Phil A.R. (Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science, 2008)
    Tephras are fragmentary materials that are blasted explosively into the air during volcanic eruptions. Distributed throughout Zealandia, tephras provide useful markers for connecting and dating land surfaces, sediment ...

  • Fingerprints and age models for widespread New Zealand tephra marker beds erupted since 30,000 years ago: a framework for NZ-INTIMATE

    Lowe, David J.; Shane, Phil A.R.; Alloway, Brent V.; Newnham, Rewi M. (Elsevier, 2008-01)
    The role of tephras in the NZ-INTIMATE project is a critical one because most high-resolution palaeoclimatic records are linked and dated by one or more tephra layers. In this review, first we document eruptive, distributional, ...

  • John A. Westgate - Global tephrochronologist, stratigrapher, mentor

    Froese, Duane G.; Alloway, Brent V.; Lowe, David J. (Elsevier, 2008)
    The growth of tephra studies and tephrochronology as a field of research in the last four decades owes an enormous debt to the contributions of John Westgate. John has been one of the clear leaders of this field over this ...

Co-authors for Brent V. Alloway