West Side Story 5, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 46 tephra layers at West Side Story 5

Site Type Area Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Terrestrial Iceland, Mývatnssveit 65.5080°N 17.0721°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
1229 WSS5-A n/a Soil Section
Veiđivötn 1717 Tephra WSS5-A 1 0.430 - 0.435 Coarse dark tephra 5294
Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra WSS5-A 2 0.490 - 0.525 Fine gray black tephra 5294
WSS5-A 3 0.585 - 0.585 Hekla 1158 Tephra/ Hekla 1104 Tephra? - trace of very patchy fine white tephra 5294
V-Sv Tephra WSS5-A 4 0.610 - 0.620 Fine olive green tephra 5294
Landnám Tephra WSS5-A 5 0.630 - 0.635 Patchy fine light olive green tephra 5294
WSS5-A 6 0.640 - 0.645 Fine dark green tephra 5294
WSS5-A 7 0.650 - 0.655 Fine olive green tephra 5294
WSS5-A 8 0.656 - 0.661 Patchy coarse dark brown tephra with root casts 5294
WSS5-A 9 0.676 - 0.681 Fine olive black tephra 5294
WSS5-A 10 0.686 - 0.686 Trace coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-A 11 0.711 - 0.721 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-A 12 0.731 - 0.736 Patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-A 13 0.741 - 0.741 Trace of patchy fine white tephra 5294
WSS5-A 14 0.786 - 0.801 Diffuse coarse black tephra 5294
WSS5-A 15 0.811 - 0.826 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-A 16 0.836 - 0.836 Trace of very patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-A 17 0.846 - 0.856 Diffuse coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-A 18 0.866 - 0.866 Trace coarse dark tephra 5294
Hverfjall Tephra WSS5-A 19 0.871 - 0.906 Coarse dark tephra combed; lower margin extending 1cm below layer 5294
Hekla 3 Tephra WSS5-A 20 0.936 - 1.006 even layer 5294
WSS5-A 21 1.016 - 1.016 Trace coarse dark tephra 5294
1230 WSS5-B n/a Soil Section
Veiđivötn 1717 Tephra WSS5-B 1 0.470 - 0.475 Coarse dark tephra 5294
Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra WSS5-B 2 0.525 - 0.545 Fine to coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 3 0.560 - 0.565 Very patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 4 0.610 - 0.610 Hekla 1158 Tephra/ Hekla 1104 Tephra? - trace of patchy fine white tephra 5294
V-Sv Tephra WSS5-B 5 0.635 - 0.645 Fine olive green tephra 5294
Landnám Tephra WSS5-B 6 0.655 - 0.655 Trace of very diffuse fine light olive green tephra 5294
WSS5-B 7 0.665 - 0.675 Fine to coarse dark gray tephra 5294
WSS5-B 8 0.676 - 0.676 Trace of patchy fine olive green tephra 5294
WSS5-B 9 0.677 - 0.682 Patchy diffuse coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 10 0.712 - 0.717 Patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 11 0.742 - 0.747 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 12 0.757 - 0.757 Trace of patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 13 0.762 - 0.762 Trace of fine white tephra 5294
WSS5-B 14 0.802 - 0.807 Patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 15 0.812 - 0.817 Patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 16 0.832 - 0.847 Diffuse coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 17 0.852 - 0.857 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 18 0.862 - 0.867 Patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 19 0.877 - 0.882 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 20 0.897 - 0.902 Patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
Hverfjall Tephra WSS5-B 21 0.907 - 0.942 Coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 22 0.947 - 0.947 Trace of very patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
WSS5-B 23 0.952 - 0.952 Trace of patchy coarse dark tephra 5294
Hekla 3 Tephra WSS5-B 24 0.967 - 1.047 Fine white tephra - very even layer 5294
WSS5-B 25 1.057 - 1.057 Trace of coarse dark tephra 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: 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 19:15:27 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.