• Active Tephra in Kyushu 2010: International field conference 

  Holt, Katherine A.; Lowe, David J. (The Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA), 2010)

  In May of 2010 the inter-congress meeting of the INQUA International Focus Group on Tephrochronology and Volcanism (INTAV) was held in Kirishima City, Japan. INTAV was formed in 2007 at the International Union for Quaternary ...

  

• Advances in Quaternary tephrostratigraphy and tephrochronology in New Zealand 

  Lowe, David J.; Newnham, Rewi M. (1999)

  This paper summarises recent studies on Quaternary tephra deposits in New Zealand, and refers to a range of tephrochronological applications including sequence stratigraphy, palaeoclimatic reconstruction, and archaeology. ...

  

• Advancing tephrochronology as a global dating tool: applications in volcanology, archaeology, and palaeoclimatic research 

  Lane, C.S.; Lowe, David J.; Blockley, S.P.E.; Suzuki, T.; Smith, V.C. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Layers of far-travelled volcanic ash (tephra) from explosive volcanic eruptions provide stratigraphic and numerical dating horizons in sedimentary and volcanic sequences. Such tephra layers may be dispersed over tens to ...

• The advent of the Anthropocene in Australasia. 

  Bostock, Helen C.; Lowe, David J.; Gillespie, Richard; Priestley, Rebecca; Newnham, Rewi M.; Mooney, Scott D. (Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA), 2015-07-21)

  As early as the late 19th Century, several scientists had suggested that humans were starting to influence the physical environment of planet Earth (e.g. Marsh, 1864; Stoppani, 1873; Arrhenius, 1896; Chamberlain, 1897). ...

  

• Age of the Rotoehu Ash. Comment. 

  Lowe, David J.; Hogg, Alan G. (R S N Z Publishing, 1995)

  Suggests that the article by Whitehead & Ditchburn (1994), although presenting useful new data on 230Th/232Th analyses, is flawed and misleading in suggesting that the Rotoiti Tephra is considerably younger than c. 50 ka.

  

• Is there a salty solution to sensitive soil sliding in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand? 

  Robertson, Thomas Paul (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  Found globally, sensitive soils are widely regarded as a key cause of slope instability. These sensitive soils often contribute to the production of large retrogressive landslides that pose significant danger to a people ...

  

• Evaluating soil and landscape models to predict liquefaction susceptibility in the Hinuera Formation, Hamilton Basin 

  McKay, Aleesha May (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  The Hinuera Formation, being an extensive alluvial deposit throughout the Hamilton Basin plains, has been identified by Kleyburg (2015) as being susceptible to liquefaction. As much of the infrastructure of the Hamilton ...

  

• Volcanology of the basaltic lava succession within the Auckland pit of the Bombay Quarry, Bombay Volcanic Complex, South Auckland Volcanic Field 

  Kapasi, Aliasgar (University of Waikato, 2016)

  The South Auckland Volcanic Field (SAVF), which was active 1.59 – 0.51 million years ago and comprises around 82 volcanic centres, represents a complete history of a monogenetic field preserved in the geological record. ...

  

• Using a tephrostratigraphic framework to determine the past 40,000 yrs of fault rupture and paleohydrothermal activity on the east strand of the Whirinaki Fault, Ngakuru Graben, central Taupo Volcanic Zone 

  Loame, Remedy Charlotte (University of Waikato, 2016)

  The Ngakuru Graben in the central Taupo Volcanic Zone, North Island, New Zealand, is largely thermally inactive, but several fossil geothermal systems have been mapped throughout the area parallel to the Whirinaki Fault ...

  

• Impacts of conversion from forestry to pasture on soil physical properties of Vitrands (Pumice Soils) in central North Island, New Zealand 

  Paripovich, D; Balks, Megan R.; Schipper, Louis A.; Lowe, David J. (IUSS, 2010-08-01)

  Tens of thousands of hectares of land have been converted from plantation forest to pasture in the central North Island of New Zealand between 2000 and 2010. The land use change was driven by the perceived better long term ...

  

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