West Side Story 3, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 14 tephra layers at West Side Story 3, profile no 1222

Site Type Area Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Terrestrial Iceland, Mývatnssveit 65.5089°N 17.0715°W 310

 

*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.
Profile Tephra Layer
No Name Profile Depth (m) Type Correlated name1 Local name2 Tephra Depth (m) Comments Geochemical data Ref
1222 WSS3-A n/a Soil section
Veiđivötn 1717 Tephra WSS3-A 1 0.300 - 0.305 Discontinuous coarse dark tephra 5294
Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra WSS3-A 2 0.350 - 0.375 Fine dark tephra - Thufur cast 5294
V-Sv Tephra WSS3-A 3 0.445 - 0.455 Irregular fine olive green tephra 5294
Landnám Tephra WSS3-A 4 0.460 - 0.465 Fine light olive green tephra 5294
WSS3-A 5 0.475 - 0.485 Fine black tephra 5294
WSS3-A 6 0.490 - 0.495 Fine dark tephra 5294
WSS3-A 7 0.545 - 0.550 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS3-A 8 0.560 - 0.560 Trace fine black tephra 5294
WSS3-A 9 0.565 - 0.565 Trace of patchy fine white tephra 5294
WSS3-A 10 0.615 - 0.625 Diffuse coarse black tephra 5294
WSS3-A 11 0.635 - 0.645 Diffuse fine dark tephra 5294
WSS3-A 12 0.665 - 0.670 Diffuse coarse dark tephra 5294
Hverfjall Tephra WSS3-A 13 0.685 - 0.725 Coarse dark tephra and pale fragments 5294
Hekla 3 Tephra WSS3-A 14 0.755 - 0.815 Fine white tephra 5294

References

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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

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This Tephrabase search was made on 5/7/2025 at 08:40:21 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.