Sol159, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 19 tephra layers at Sol159

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.5735°N	19.3596°W	720

*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
1272	Sol159	n/a	Soil section
					Sol159 1	0.020 - 0.030	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol159 2	0.060 - 0.065	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol159 3	0.095 - 0.105	Coarse light brown tephra		1340
					Sol159 4	0.135 - 0.145	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol159 5	0.185 - 0.185	Trace fine black tephra		1340
					Sol159 6	0.225 - 0.235	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
					Sol159 7	0.280 - 0.300	Coarse dark brown tephra		1340
					Sol159 8	0.320 - 0.350	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol159 9	0.360 - 0.365	Fine olive brown tephra		1340
				Katla 1357 Tephra	Sol159 10	0.395 - 0.405	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol159 11	0.420 - 0.430	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol159 12	0.450 - 0.460	Coarse blue grey tephra		1340
				Eldgjá Tephra	Sol159 13	0.630 - 0.640	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Katla 920 Tephra	Sol159 14	0.650 - 0.660	Coarse brown tephra		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol159 15	0.680 - 0.690	Fine olive brown tephra		1340
					Sol159 16	0.720 - 0.725	Fine black tephra		1340
					Sol159 17	0.745 - 0.770	2.5cm layer, split in 2 parts: upper part - 0.5cm of fine white tephra, thickness can decrease to traces only; lower part - 2cm of coarse black tephra; unidentified Katla tephra		1340
					Sol159 18	0.800 - 0.805	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol159 19	0.905 - 0.905	Trace 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 18:46:31 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.