Sol140, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 21 tephra layers at Sol140

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.5304°N	19.2412°W	550

*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
1250	Sol140	n/a	Soil section
					Sol140 1	0.100 - 0.100	Trace fine black tephra		1340
					Sol140 2	0.140 - 0.160	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol140 3	0.480 - 0.500	Fine black tephra		1340
					Sol140 4	0.510 - 0.520	Diffuse fine black tephra		1340
					Sol140 5	0.525 - 0.535	Fine dark tephra		1340
				Katla 1357 Tephra	Sol140 6	0.625 - 0.645	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol140 7	0.665 - 0.675	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol140 8	0.695 - 0.715	Coarse blue grey tephra		1340
				Eldgjá Tephra	Sol140 9	0.965 - 0.995	Coarse blue black tephra		1340
				Katla 920 Tephra	Sol140 10	1.005 - 1.010	Coarse dark brown tephra		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol140 11	1.040 - 1.060	Fine olive brown tephra		1340
					Sol140 12	1.080 - 1.100	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 13	1.110 - 1.140	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol140 14	1.160 - 1.170	Fine yellow grey tephra		1340
					Sol140 15	1.190 - 1.200	Disturbed fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 16	1.400 - 1.405	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 17	1.435 - 1.445	Fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 18	1.495 - 1.500	Fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 19	1.560 - 1.565	Fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 20	1.625 - 1.630	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol140 21	1.650 - 1.650	Trace of tephra - needles?		1340

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.

1340: Dugmore, A.J. 1987 Holocene glacier fluctuations around Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland: a tephrochronological study University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen,114..

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 20:08:31 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.