An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland

Your search has found 12 tephra layers at An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Grid reference	Altitude (m)
Lake	Ireland, Aran Islands, County Galway	53.0593°N	9.5074°W	L990020	10

*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
1155	MOR1	n/a	Usinger corer (8 cm diameter, 2 metre lengths)
				MOR-T4	MOR-T4	25.440 - 25.460	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
					MOR-T5	25.660 - 25.680	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
1156	MOR2	n/a	Usinger corer (8 cm diameter, 2 metre lengths)
					MOR-T1	24.160 - 24.160	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
					MOR-T2	24.380 - 24.380	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
				Hekla 1104 Tephra	MOR-T3	25.120 - 25.260	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
					MOR-T6	25.780 - 25.780	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
					MOR-T7	26.860 - 26.870	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
					MOR-T8	27.100 - 27.110	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
					MOR-T9	27.340 - 27.340	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
				Lairg Tephra B	MOR-T10	33.030 - 33.040	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
				Lairg Tephra A	MOR-T11	33.180 - 33.180	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802
				Hekla 5 Tephra	MOR-T12	33.440 - 33.440	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1802

References

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1802: Chambers, F.M., Daniell, J.R.G., Hunt, J.B., Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 2004 Tephrostratigraphy of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland: implications for Holocene tephrochronology in the northeastern Atlantic region. Holocene 14, 703-720. https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683604hl749rp

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