Sol142, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 16 tephra layers at Sol142

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.5249°N	19.2381°W	500

*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
1252	Sol142	n/a	Soil section
				Katla 1918 Tephra	Sol142 1	0.085 - 0.090	Fine black tephra; 0.5cm layer, thickness can decrease to traces only		1340
				Katla 1823 Tephra	Sol142 2	0.110 - 0.120	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol142 3	0.420 - 0.435	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol142 4	0.470 - 0.470	Trace fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol142 5	0.540 - 0.570	Soil and coarse dark tephra, grading into the Katla 1357 Tephra layer below		1340
				Katla 1357 Tephra	Sol142 6	0.570 - 0.610	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol142 7	0.630 - 0.650	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol142 8	0.675 - 0.685	Fine to coarse blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1104 Tephra	Sol142 9	0.715 - 0.715	Trace fine white tephra		1340
				Eldgjá Tephra	Sol142 10	0.855 - 0.885	Coarse blue black tephra		1340
					Sol142 11	0.895 - 0.905	Coarse dark brown tephra - reworked		1340
				Katla 920 Tephra	Sol142 12	0.925 - 0.935	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol142 13	0.945 - 0.950	Fine olive brown tephra		1340
					Sol142 14	0.990 - 1.005	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				SILK-YN Tephra	Sol142 15	1.040 - 1.045	Fine yellow grey tephra		1340
					Sol142 16	1.070 - 1.090	Coarse dark tephra		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 20:16:56 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.