We are extremely grateful to the agencies and individuals in Guatemala who provided assistance to this project. They include: Universidad del Valle, Universidad San Carlos, Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Autoridad Para el Manejo y Desarrollo Sostenible de la Cuenca del Lago Petén-Itzá, Wildlife Conservation Society, Alex Arrivillaga, Cathy Lopez, Margaret Dix, Michael Dix, Margarita Palmieri, David, Rosita, & Kelsey Kuhn, and the staff at La Casa de Don David, Lico Godoy, Tony Ortiz, Franz Sperisen, Luis Toruño, Julian Tesucún, Melisa Orozco, Silja Ramirez, Gabriela Alfaro, and Jacobo Blijdenstein. We also thank our many collaborators from University of Florida, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis/Duluth), Geoforschungszentrum (Potsdam), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich), Université de Genève, as well as the personnel of DOSECC (Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth's Continental Crust). Drilling was funded by grants from the US National Science Foundation (ATM-0502030), the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. We thank LacCore personnel Kristina Brady, Amy Myrbo and Anders Noren for help with core description and curation. This project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with the grants KU2685/3-1 and SCHW671/16-1. For sampling of proximal tephras in the past, preparation of the tephras in the lab and assistance with the chemical analyses, we thank Karen Strehlow, Dagmar Rau, Armin Freundt, Walter Hernandez, Carlos Pullinger, Jan Fietzke, Fuo Lung Lin, and Mario Thöner. Finally, we thank Neil Roberts, Karen Fontijn and Roberto Sulpizio for helpful reviews and edits that strengthened the paper.
GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Rue des Maraichers 13, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Geological Sciences and Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Geology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication (IGeo), Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany; Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Recommended Citation:
Kutterolf S.,Schindlbeck J.C.,Anselmetti F.S.,et al. A 400-ka tephrochronological framework for Central America from Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala) sediments[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,150