The explosive science of volcanoes and peat bogs
Can you name a volcano? For many people, their answer to this question may be Mount St Helens. The eruption that took place there on the 18th May 1980 was actually relatively […]
Category Archives: Dating methods
How low can you go? Adventures in the fine slicing of peat.
I’ve written elsewhere about the sheer volume of work that is required to produce results in our field of research. As if there wasn’t already enough to do, I’m currently […]
Turning depth to time using tephra: a cautionary note?
Without applying a chronology, or timescale, to the data we derive from our peat cores, the information is largely meaningless. It is only when we swap depths for ages that […]
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