Stóri Melás, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 7 tephra layers at Stóri Melás

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Mývatnssveit	65.5671°N	17.1090°W	290

*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
1218	Stóri Melás	n/a	Soil Section
				Veiđivötn 1717 Tephra	Stori Melas 1	0.300 - 0.310	Coarse gray tephra		5294
				Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra	Stori Melas 2	0.410 - 0.450	Fine gray green tephra		5294
				V-Sv Tephra	Stori Melas 3	0.540 - 0.550	Fine olive green tephra		5294
				Landnám Tephra	Stori Melas 4	0.560 - 0.570	Fine olive green tephra		5294
					Stori Melas 5	0.580 - 0.605	Fine gray tephra		5294
					Stori Melas 6	0.605 - 0.615	Soil and fine olive green tephra		5294
					Stori Melas 7	0.615 - 0.625	Fine dark tephra		5294

References

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5294: Sigurđardóttir, 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 19:11:52 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.