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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.
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New data from the following articles is being added to Tephrabase over the next few weeks:
- Pilcher, J., Bradley, R. S., Francus, P. and Anderson, L. (2005) A Holocene tephra record from the Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway Boreas 34 136-156
- Langdon, P.G. and Barber, K.E. 2001. New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science 16: 753-759.
- Langdon, P.G. and Barber, K.E. 2002. The 'AD 860' tephra in Scotland: new data from Langlands Moss, East Kilbride, Strathclyde. Quaternary Newsletter 97: 11-18.
- Langdon, P.G., Barber, K.E. and Hughes, P.D.M. 2003. A 7500 year peat-based palaeoclimatic reconstruction and evidence for an 1100 year cyclicity of surface wetness from Temple Hill Moss, Pentland Hills, Southeast Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 259-274.
- Langdon, P.G. and Barber, K.E. 2004. Snapshots in time: precise correlations of peat based proxy climate records in Scotland using mid-Holocene tephras. The Holocene 14: 21-33.
- Barber, K.E., Langdon, P.G. and Blundell, A. 2008. Dating the Glen Garry tephra - a widespread late-Holocene marker horizon in the peatlands of Northern Britain. The Holocene 18: 31-43.
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| 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. |
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