Krákábotnar, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

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This page contains the results of your search. It is divided into two sections. The first contains information about any tephra layers present at the site and the second part contains details about the source references and the date and time of the search.

Your search has found 17 Tephra layers at Krákábotnar

Site Type Area Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Terrestrial Iceland, Mývatnssveit 65.3238°N 17.0941°W 410
Profile Tephra Layer
NoNameTotal Profile Depth (m)TypeCorrelated name1Local name2Tephra Depth (m)CommentsGeochemical dataRef
1217 Krákábotnar n/a Soil Profile
Veiđivötn 1717 TephraKrákárbotnar 1 1.800 - 1.810Coarse dark tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 2 1.810 - 1.815Fine dark tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 3 1.875 - 1.880Fine dark tephra5294
Veiđivötn 1477 TephraKrákárbotnar 4 1.890 - 2.020Fine gray tephra5294
Veiđivötn 1159 TephraKrákárbotnar 5 2.025 - 2.030Fine dark tephra5294
Hekla 1158 TephraKrákárbotnar 6 2.030 - 2.030Trace fine white tephra5294
V-Sv TephraKrákárbotnar 7 2.070 - 2.090Fine olive green tephra5294
Landnám TephraKrákárbotnar 8 2.100 - 2.100Trace fine olive green tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 9 2.110 - 2.125Fine dark tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 10 2.126 - 2.136Fine olive green tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 11 2.136 - 2.141Fine dark tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 12 2.161 - 2.171Fine olive green tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 13 2.221 - 2.241Fine black tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 14 2.241 - 2.241Trace fine white tephra5294
Hekla 3 TephraKrákárbotnar 15 2.391 - 2.491Fine white tephra5294
Krákárbotnar 16 2.591 - 2.611Fine dark tephra5294
Hekla 4 TephraKrákárbotnar 17 2.671 - 2.756Fine white to dark gray tephra (white mixed in lenses into the grey)5294

Notes

*Note that the Tephra layer depth of a cryptotephra does not indicate the thickness of the layer, as in a visible tephra tephra layer. The thickness indicates the spread of the tephra shards in the sediment or sometimes the top and bottom depths are the same (i.e. no apparent thickness).

1Correlated tephra name means that the tephra deposit has been correlated with a tephra horizon found at multiple sites (e.g. Hekla 4). Of course, these correlations could be reinterpreted and care needs to be taken.

2Local tephra name is the name given by the researchers for the tephra found at the site, this is often a mixture of a site code/name and the depth of the tephra. Not all tephra layers in Tephrabase have a local name, but more or being added. This is independent of any correlations to other tephra deposits.

References

The data on this page is from the following source(s). If you use this data please acknowledge the source of the data. The number preceding each reference matches the Ref number on the data table above.

5294: Sigurđardóttir, R., Newton, A. J., Hicks, M. T., Dugmore, A. J., Hreinsson, V., Ogilvie, A. E. J., Júlíusson, Á. D., Einarsson, Á., Hartman, S., Simpson, I. A., Vésteinsson, O., and McGovern, T. M.   2019   Trolls, Water, Time, and Community: Resource Management in the Mývatn District of Northeast Iceland. Studies in Human Ecology, Vol. 11: Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management  Lozny, L. R. and McGovern, T. H., Springer International Publishing, New York,77-101. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15800-2_5

Data Sources

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This Tephrabase search was made on 28/3/2024 at 13:47:58 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.