Sol160, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 19 tephra layers at Sol160

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.5731°N	19.3596°W	700

*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
1273	Sol160	n/a	Soil section
				Katla 1918 Tephra	Sol160 1	0.005 - 0.005	Trace fine black tephra		1340
					Sol160 2	0.025 - 0.030	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol160 3	0.060 - 0.075	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol160 4	0.095 - 0.100	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol160 5	0.130 - 0.135	Fine black tephra		1340
					Sol160 6	0.215 - 0.225	Coarse to fine blue grey tephra		1340
					Sol160 7	0.265 - 0.275	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol160 8	0.315 - 0.315	Trace coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol160 9	0.325 - 0.330	Fine brown tephra		1340
				Katla 1357 Tephra	Sol160 10	0.360 - 0.370	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol160 11	0.380 - 0.400	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol160 12	0.410 - 0.450	Coarse blue grey tephra		1340
					Sol160 13	0.490 - 0.540	Disturbed tephra		1340
				Eldgjá Tephra	Sol160 14	0.570 - 0.590	Coarse black tephra, grading into the tephra layer below		1340
				Katla 920 Tephra	Sol160 15	0.590 - 0.620	Disturbed coarse brown tephra		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol160 16	0.640 - 0.640	Patchy trace of fine olive brown tephra		1340
					Sol160 17	0.660 - 0.670	Patchy coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol160 18	0.730 - 0.730	Patchy trace of coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol160 19	0.830 - 0.830	Patchy trace of 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 19:57:06 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.