West Side Story 1, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 38 tephra layers at West Side Story 1

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Mývatnssveit	65.5114°N	17.0733°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
1202	WSS1-A	n/a	Soil section
				Veiðivötn 1717 Tephra	WSS1-A 1	0.700 - 0.705	Coarse dark tephra		5294
				Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra	WSS1-A 2	0.775 - 0.810	Light gray to brown tephra grading into the tephra above		5294
				V-Sv Tephra	WSS1-A 3	0.890 - 0.900	Fine olive green tephra - wavy and feathered		5294
				Landnám Tephra	WSS1-A 4	0.910 - 0.915	Fine olive green tephra - wavy and feathered		5294
					WSS1-A 5	0.925 - 0.940	Fine black gray tephra		5294
					WSS1-A 6	0.945 - 0.955	Fine dark brown tephra		5294
					WSS1-A 7	1.025 - 1.025	Trace patchy fine white tephra		5294
					WSS1-A 8	1.090 - 1.090	Trace patchy fine drak tephra		5294
				Hverfjall Tephra	WSS1-A 9	1.140 - 1.175	Coarse light gray brown tephra		5294
				Hekla 3 Tephra	WSS1-A 10	1.215 - 1.275	Fine white tephra around tree roots		5294
1219	WSS1-B	n/a	Soil section
				Veiðivötn 1717 Tephra	WSS1-B 1	0.710 - 0.715	Coarse dark tephra		5294
				Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra	WSS1-B 2	0.785 - 0.825	Fine gray brown tephra		5294
					WSS1-B 3	0.840 - 0.840	Trace coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS1-B 4	0.850 - 0.850	Trace coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS1-B 5	0.860 - 0.860	Trace coarse dark tephra		5294
				V-Sv Tephra	WSS1-B 6	0.910 - 0.920	Fine olive green tephra - wavy		5294
				Landnám Tephra	WSS1-B 7	0.930 - 0.935	Fine olive green tephra - patchy and wavy		5294
					WSS1-B 8	0.945 - 0.960	Fine dark gray tephra		5294
					WSS1-B 9	0.970 - 0.975	Fine dark brown tephra		5294
					WSS1-B 10	1.035 - 1.050	Coarse dark tephra - diffuse and patchy		5294
					WSS1-B 11	1.140 - 1.150	Fine dark tephra - patchy		5294
				Hverfjall Tephra	WSS1-B 12	1.175 - 1.215	Coarse dark tephra		5294
				Hekla 3 Tephra	WSS1-B 13	1.230 - 1.290	Fine white tephra and root casts		5294
1220	WSS1-C	n/a	Soil section
				Veiðivötn 1717 Tephra	WSS1-C 1	0.760 - 0.765	Coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 2	0.775 - 0.775	Trace fine dark tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 3	0.810 - 0.810	Trace fine dark tephra		5294
				Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra	WSS1-C 4	0.820 - 0.865	Dark gray brown tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 5	0.875 - 0.875	Trace of patchy coarse dark tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 6	0.885 - 0.885	Hekla 1158 Tephra? - Trace of patchy fine white tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 7	0.895 - 0.895	Trace of patchy fine brown tephra		5294
				V-Sv Tephra	WSS1-C 8	0.945 - 0.955	Fine olive green tephra		5294
				Landnám Tephra	WSS1-C 9	0.965 - 0.965	Trace of patchy fine olive green tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 10	0.980 - 0.995	Fine black tephra to fine gray black tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 11	1.005 - 1.015	Fine dark brown tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 12	1.065 - 1.075	Diffuse fine dark tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 13	1.090 - 1.095	Diffuse patchy fine white tephra		5294
					WSS1-C 14	1.195 - 1.225	Fine dark tephra and soil mixed		5294
					WSS1-C 15	1.295 - 1.425	Fine white tephra mixed with soil for upper 3 cm		5294

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.

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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