Sol157, Rangįržing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 12 tephra layers at Sol157

Site Type Area Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Terrestrial Iceland, Rangįržing eystra 63.5797°N 19.3587°W 760

 

*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
1270 Sol157 n/a Soil section
Hekla 1947 Tephra Sol157 1 0.020 - 0.025 Very coarse dark tephra 1340
Katla 1918 Tephra Sol157 2 0.045 - 0.050 Fine to coarse black tephra; 0.5cm layer, thickness can increase to 1cm 1340
Sol157 3 0.090 - 0.095 Coarse dark tephra, reworked 1340
Sol157 4 0.125 - 0.130 Coarse dark tephra, reworked 1340
Katla 1823 Tephra Sol157 5 0.210 - 0.220 Coarse black tephra 1340
Sol157 6 0.350 - 0.355 Coarse blue grey tephra 1340
Sol157 7 0.475 - 0.485 Coarse light brown tephra granding into the layer below 1340
Sol157 8 0.485 - 0.495 Coarse dark tephra 1340
Sol157 9 0.585 - 0.590 Patchy olive brown tephra 1340
Katla 1357 Tephra Sol157 10 0.650 - 0.660 Coarse dark tephra 1340
Hekla 1341 Tephra Sol157 11 0.670 - 0.685 Fine blue grey tephra 1340
Hekla 1300 Tephra Sol157 12 0.705 - 0.710 Coarse blue grey 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 21:35:53 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.