AntVolc contact: Nelia Dunbar (nelia@nmt.edu)
- Identify and compositionally characterize major correlatable tephra datums
- Obtain comparable probe & grain-specific ICP analyses of glass from source volcanoes (may involve additional sampling)
- Improve the marine sediment-based, lacustrine & ice-core tephra records, to enable more accurate environmental correlations and constructing a more complete picture of the volcanism on the continent, especially in Pleistocene—Holocene-time
- Encourage new drilling of ice-filled calderas for more complete tephra and climate records
- Identify the major factors affecting the preservation of glassy proximal deposits
- Quantify effects of remobilization of pyroclastic material following eruption
- Discriminate between primary volcanic and sedimentary processes
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