West Side Story 5, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 21 tephra layers at West Side Story 5, profile no 1229

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Mývatnssveit	65.5080°N	17.0721°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
1229	WSS5-A	n/a	Soil Section
				Veiðivötn 1717 Tephra	WSS5-A 1	0.430 - 0.435	Coarse dark tephra		5294
				Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra	WSS5-A 2	0.490 - 0.525	Fine gray black tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 3	0.585 - 0.585	Hekla 1158 Tephra/ Hekla 1104 Tephra? - trace of very patchy fine white tephra		5294
				V-Sv Tephra	WSS5-A 4	0.610 - 0.620	Fine olive green tephra		5294
				Landnám Tephra	WSS5-A 5	0.630 - 0.635	Patchy fine light olive green tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 6	0.640 - 0.645	Fine dark green tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 7	0.650 - 0.655	Fine olive green tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 8	0.656 - 0.661	Patchy coarse dark brown tephra with root casts		5294
					WSS5-A 9	0.676 - 0.681	Fine olive black tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 10	0.686 - 0.686	Trace coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 11	0.711 - 0.721	Coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 12	0.731 - 0.736	Patchy coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 13	0.741 - 0.741	Trace of patchy fine white tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 14	0.786 - 0.801	Diffuse coarse black tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 15	0.811 - 0.826	Coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 16	0.836 - 0.836	Trace of very patchy coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 17	0.846 - 0.856	Diffuse coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS5-A 18	0.866 - 0.866	Trace coarse dark tephra		5294
				Hverfjall Tephra	WSS5-A 19	0.871 - 0.906	Coarse dark tephra combed; lower margin extending 1cm below layer		5294
				Hekla 3 Tephra	WSS5-A 20	0.936 - 1.006	even layer		5294
					WSS5-A 21	1.016 - 1.016	Trace coarse dark tephra		5294

References

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5294: Sigurðardóttir, 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 07:47:36 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.