Sandfell 1, Mývatnssveit, Iceland

Your search has found 11 tephra layers at Sandfell 1

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Mývatnssveit	65.5306°N	17.2214°W	407

*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
1233	SF1	n/a	Soil section
					SF1 1	0.200 - 0.220	Coarse dark tephra		8105
					SF1 2	0.220 - 0.320	Dark tephra mixed with soil		8105
					SF1 3	0.430 - 0.435	Fine dark tephra		8105
				Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra	SF1 4	0.505 - 0.540	Fine dark olive green tephra		8105
					SF1 5	0.560 - 0.565	Fine dark tephra		8105
					SF1 6	0.595 - 0.635	Ill defined Landnam sequence (fine dark tephra, soil, diffuse dark tephra)		8105
					SF1 7	0.755 - 0.765	Fine dark tephra		8105
					SF1 8	0.785 - 0.795	Coarse dark tephra		8105
					SF1 9	0.800 - 0.805	Fine dark tephra		8105
					SF1 10	0.810 - 0.815	Coarse dark tephra		8105
				Hekla 3 Tephra	SF1 11	0.865 - 0.915	Fine white tephra with root casts		8105

References

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8105: Anthony Newton and Andrew Dugmore 2018 Institute of Geography, School of GeoScience, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP UK

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 20:23:05 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.