Sol162, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 6 tephra layers at Sol162

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.5627°N	19.3720°W	560

*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
1275	Sol162	n/a	Soil section
					Sol162 1	0.650 - 0.700	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol162 2	0.705 - 0.740	3.5cm layer separated in two parts: upper part - 3cm of fine olive brown tephra; lower part - 0.5cm of fine white tephra, thickness can decrease to traces only		1340
					Sol162 3	0.840 - 0.870	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol162 4	0.890 - 0.890	Trace coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol162 5	0.960 - 0.970	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol162 6	1.010 - 1.015	Coarse dark tephra		1340

References

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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 18:24:50 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.