The stratigraphic relationships and distribution of 36 named late Quaternary (≤ c. 50 000 yr
B P.) silicic tephra formations, erupted from 4 volcanic centres—Okataina, Taupo, Maroa …

The term accident proneness was coined by psychological research workers in 1926. Since
then its concept—that certain individuals are always more likely than others to sustain …

The Rangitawa Tephra, a widespread mid-Pleistocene marker in the New Zealand region, is
dated by fission-track, thermoluminescence (TL), infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL), K …

Chemical analysis plays a major role in the identification and correlation of tephra deposits.
Standardization of analytical methods, reporting procedures and data manipulation allows …

New Zealand Quaternary marine and terrestrial sequences contain numerous tephras, or
volcanic-ash horizons, that are the distal correlatives of voluminous welded ignimbrite …

A “ground layer” rich in lithic fragments and crystals which underlies a young and widely-
spread non-welded ignimbrite from Taupo, New Zealand, has formed by the sedimentation …

Sudden unexpected death in infants ('cot death'or'crib death') is now recognized as a clinical
entity and existingknowledge has been recently sum-marized (Valdes-Dapena, 1967; …

A late Holocene (from c. 5500 yr BP) record of vegetation change is presented for the
Gisborne region, based on pollen, charcoal, and tephra analyses of a terrestrial and a …

Voluminous rhyolitic eruptions and prevailing westerly winds have dispersed late
Quaternary ash from the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) of the North Island, New Zealand …

Discriminant function analysis (DFA) is a multivariate statistical technique that provides a
non-subjective means of correlating tephra deposits based on compositional or other …