Tephrabase
Tephrabase

A Tephrochronological Database

Welcome to the new Tephrabase website. Please use the new http://www.tephrabase.org web address when referring to Tephrabase.

Tephra layers are now an invaluable tool in palaeoenvironmental studies. The data produced by such research can be difficult to handle and disseminate. Tephrabase is a database of tephra layers found in Iceland, north-west and northern Europe, Russia and central Mexico. Details on the location, name, age and geochemistry of tephra layers are stored in the database, as well as information about relevant volcanoes and volcanic systems. A comprehensive reference database is also included.

A belated link to Tephrabase: tephrochronology and the development of a centralised European database paper which was published in the Journal of Quaternary Science in 2007.
 
New data is being added to Tephrabase over the next few weeks [5 June 2008].
 
In order to help people donate data to Tephrabase, I have created a Word file (form) or PDF file which contain details about the data required. Please download either of the files and either fill in the form or use them to help you include all the information required. Any comments or questions welcome. Please email any data to me, anthony.newton@ed.ac.uk I intend to create a more flexible system in the future.
     
hosted by:   School of GeoSciences
The University of Edinburgh
Queries:   Anthony Newton (anthony.newton@ed.ac.uk)
     
The project was originally funded by a grant
from the U.K.'s Natural Environment Research Council

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