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D-Index
53
Citations
7551
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Best Publications

  • Tephrostratigraphy and glass compositions of post-15 kyr Campi Flegrei eruptions: implications for eruption history and chronostratigraphic markers

    V. C. Smith;R. Isaia;N. J. G. Pearce

  • Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka

    Victoria C. Smith;Richard A. Staff;Simon P.E. Blockley;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Early levallois technology and the lower to middle paleolithic transition in the southern caucasus

    D. S. Adler;K. N. Wilkinson;S. Blockley;D. F. Mark

  • Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

    John Lowe;Nick Barton;Simon Blockley;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Trends in rhyolite geochemistry, mineralogy, and magma storage during the last 50 kyr at Okataina and Taupo volcanic centres, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    Victoria C. Smith;Phil Shane;Ian A. Nairn

  • First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Enrique Baquedano;Audax Mabulla

  • Geochemistry of the Phlegraean Fields (Italy) proximal sources for major Mediterranean tephras: implications for the dispersal of Plinian and co-ignimbritic components of explosive eruptions

    Emma L. Tomlinson;Ilenia Arienzo;Lucia Civetta;Sabine Wulf

  • Quantifying volcanic ash dispersal and impact of the Campanian Ignimbrite super-eruption

    Antonio Costa;Antonio Costa;A. Folch;G. Macedonio;B. Giaccio

  • Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Paul G. Albert;Simon P.E. Blockley;Mark Hardiman

  • Late-stage volatile saturation as a potential trigger for explosive volcanic eruptions

    Michael J. Stock;Madeleine C. S. Humphreys;Victoria C. Smith;Roberto Isaia

  • Was the 12.1 ka Icelandic Vedde Ash one of a kind

    C.S. Lane;S.P.E. Blockley;J. Mangerud;J. Mangerud;V.C. Smith

  • The major and trace element glass compositions of the productive Mediterranean volcanic sources: tools for correlating distal tephra layers in and around Europe

    Emma L. Tomlinson;Victoria C. Smith;Paul G. Albert;Erkan Aydar

  • Theories of Work and Working Today

    Gerardo A. Okhuysen;David P. Lepak;Karen Lee Ashcraft;Giuseppe Labianca

  • The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption

    Antonio Costa;Victoria C. Smith;Giovanni Macedonio;Naomi E. Matthews

  • Cryptotephra as a dating and correlation tool in archaeology

    Christine Susanna Lane;VL Cullen;D White;Cwf Bramham-Law

  • A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: Forcing of Quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupation of India

    Darren F. Mark;Michael Petraglia;Victoria C. Smith;Leah E. Morgan

  • New Constraints On Electron-Beam Induced Halogen Migration In Apatite

    Michael J. Stock;Madeleine C.S. Humphreys;Madeleine C.S. Humphreys;Victoria C. Smith;Roger D. Johnson

  • High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of Pleistocene Tuffs and temporal anchoring of the Matuyama-Brunhes Boundary

    Darren F. Mark;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Ross C. Dymock;Victoria C. Smith

  • Biotites from Granitic Rocks of the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith, California

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  • Tracking Volatile Behaviour in Sub-volcanic Plumbing Systems Using Apatite and Glass: Insights into Pre-eruptive Processes at Campi Flegrei, Italy

    Michael J Stock;Michael J Stock;Madeleine C S Humphreys;Victoria C Smith;Roberto Isaia

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Kevin Steensma
H. Kevin Steensma University of Washington
David P. Lepak
David P. Lepak University of Massachusetts Amherst
Karen Lee Ashcraft
Karen Lee Ashcraft University of Colorado Boulder
Harrison M. Trice
Harrison M. Trice Cornell University
Randy Hodson
Randy Hodson The Ohio State University
Monder Ram
Monder Ram Aston University
Paul Edwards
Paul Edwards University of Birmingham
Mats Alvesson
Mats Alvesson Lund University

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