Sol144, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 19 tephra layers at Sol144

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.4921°N	19.3107°W	90

*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
1255	Sol144	n/a	Soil section
					Sol144 1	0.070 - 0.075	Vague fine grey tephra		1340
					Sol144 2	0.135 - 0.145	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol144 3	0.185 - 0.195	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol144 4	0.375 - 0.380	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol144 5	0.400 - 0.405	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol144 6	0.515 - 0.520	Fine black tephra; 0.5cm layer, thickness can decrease to traces only		1340
					Sol144 7	0.550 - 0.550	Trace fine olive brown tephra		1340
					Sol144 8	0.580 - 0.590	Diffuse coarse black tephra		1340
				Katla 1416 Tephra	Sol144 9	0.640 - 0.645	Distinct fine black tephra		1340
					Sol144 10	0.690 - 0.980	29cm tephra layer, fining upwards, separated in two parts as follows: top 15cm coarse to very coarse black tephra and root fragments (split in 3 bands, each 5cm thick; top and bottom bands with higher amounts of roots/ organic material, central band <1mm grain size); bottom 14cm has 4 bands of similar thickness (coarse - very coarse - coarse - very coarse), poorly bedded		1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol144 11	0.990 - 1.015	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol144 12	1.045 - 1.050	Fine to coarse blue grey tephra		1340
					Sol144 13	1.090 - 1.090	Trace fine white tephra; unidentified Hekla tephra		1340
				Eldgjá Tephra	Sol144 14	1.330 - 1.380	Coarse black tephra		1340
				Katla 920 Tephra	Sol144 15	1.400 - 1.410	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol144 16	1.410 - 1.510	Fine olive brown tephra; colour change from light brown/yellow to dark brown/black		1340
					Sol144 17	2.110 - 2.190	Coarse black tephra		1340
				SILK-YN Tephra	Sol144 18	2.230 - 2.245	Fine light tephra		1340
					Sol144 19	2.485 - 2.515	Coarse black 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 19:57:37 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.