Svartivatn Road 2, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 24 tephra layers at Svartivatn Road 2

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Grid reference	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Mývatnssveit	65.4233°N	17.2918°W		350

*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
1197	SVR2	n/a	Soil section
				Veiðivötn 1717 Tephra	SVR2 1	0.720 - 0.725	Coarse dark tephra		5294
					SVR2 2	0.825 - 0.825	Trace fine dark tephra		5294
					SVR2 3	0.825 - 0.875	Fine dark gray tephra to black tephra (reworking)		5294
				Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra	SVR2 4	0.875 - 0.895	Fine olive green tephra		5294
					SVR2 5	0.895 - 0.900	Coarse dark tephra		5294
					SVR2 6	0.925 - 0.930	Coarse dark tephra		5294
				Öræfajökull 1362 Tephra	SVR2 7	0.930 - 0.930	Trace fine white tephra		5294
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	SVR2 8	0.945 - 0.950	Patchy coarse dark tephra		5294
				Katla 1262 Tephra	SVR2 9	0.960 - 0.960	Trace fine black tephra		5294
				Veiðivötn 1159 Tephra	SVR2 10	0.985 - 0.990	Olive green tephra		5294
				Hekla 1158 Tephra	SVR2 11	0.990 - 0.990	Trace fine white tephra		5294
				Hekla 1104 Tephra	SVR2 12	1.005 - 1.005	Trace fine white tephra		5294
					SVR2 13	1.035 - 1.045	Fine green gray tephra		5294
					SVR2 14	1.065 - 1.080	Fine dark green gray tephra to fine black tephra		5294
					SVR2 15	1.081 - 1.081	Trace fine light gray tephra		5294
					SVR2 16	1.082 - 1.092	Fine to coarse dark brown tephra to black tephra		5294
					SVR2 17	1.097 - 1.102	Diffuse coarse dark tephra		5294
					SVR2 18	1.122 - 1.132	Diffuse coarse dark tephra		5294
					SVR2 19	1.142 - 1.142	Trace patchy fine white tephra		5294
					SVR2 20	1.202 - 1.212	Diffuse coarse dark tephra		5294
					SVR2 21	1.222 - 1.237	Fine dark gray to black tephra		5294
				Hverfjall Tephra	SVR2 22	1.307 - 1.337	Coarse dark tephra		5294
				Hekla 3 Tephra	SVR2 23	1.367 - 1.567	Fine white tephra - upper part merges into soil		5294
				Hekla 4 Tephra	SVR2 24	1.647 - 1.717	Fine white tephra and darker tephra included in lenses in the soil		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 4/7/2025 at 19:32:17 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.