Dimnamyra, Dimnøya, Norway

Your search has found 2 tephra layers at Dimnamyra

Site Type Area Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Terrestrial Norway, Dimnøya 62.3203°N 5.8014°E 32

 

*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
1112 Dimnamyra 13 n/a 11 cm diameter 2 m long PVC tube piston corer
Vedde Tephra 4.120 - 4.450 The Vedde Ash Bed is up to 48 cm thick and consists of pure ash. View Data 2234
Dimna Ash 5.600 - 5.900 The Dimna Ash has two ash peaks 20 cm apart, below 5.6 metres. The highest concentration was found at 567-568 cm with almost 13,000 rhyolitic ash shards (in the size range 25-80 mm) per cm3 primary sediment. Samples for geochemical analyses were taken from 5.86-5.87 m, 5.79-5.8 m, 5.75-5.76 m and 5.67-5.68 m. View Data 2234

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.

2234: Koren, J.H., Svendsen, J.I., Mangerud, J. and Furnes, H.  2008  The Dimna Ash - A 12.8 C-14 ka-old volcanic ash in Western Norway. Quaternary Science Reviews  27, 85-94.

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 21:16:23 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.