Sol163, Rangárţing eystra, Iceland

Your search has found 31 tephra layers at Sol163

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Rangárţing eystra	63.5581°N	19.3780°W	500

*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
1276	Sol163	n/a	Soil section
				Katla 1416 Tephra	Sol163 1	0.500 - 0.505	Fine black tephra		1340
				Katla 1357 Tephra	Sol163 2	0.515 - 0.520	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol163 3	0.530 - 0.540	Fine blue grey tephra		1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol163 4	0.550 - 0.550	Trace coarse blue grey tephra		1340
					Sol163 5	0.630 - 0.650	Disturbed coarse dark tephra - Eldgjá Tephra / Katla 920 Tephra?		1340
				Landnám Tephra	Sol163 6	0.660 - 0.665	Fine olive brown tephra		1340
					Sol163 7	0.680 - 0.680	Trace fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 8	0.710 - 0.710	Trace fine white tephra		1340
					Sol163 9	0.810 - 0.850	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				SILK-YN Tephra	Sol163 10	0.855 - 0.865	Fine yellow tephra		1340
					Sol163 11	0.895 - 1.005	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 12	1.010 - 1.020	Vague fine light layer		1340
					Sol163 13	1.050 - 1.055	Fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 14	1.115 - 1.135	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol163 15	1.185 - 1.265	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 16	1.315 - 1.315	Trace coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 17	1.365 - 1.405	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 18	1.435 - 1.525	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 19	1.545 - 1.565	Fine dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 20	1.585 - 1.615	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				SILK-UN Tephra	Sol163 21	1.675 - 1.685			1340
					Sol163 22	1.690 - 1.720	Coarse dark tephra		1340
				Grained Layer	Sol163 23	1.740 - 1.760			1340
					Sol163 24	1.760 - 1.960	Highly weathered horizons and 3 evenly spaced 3cm tephra layers		1340
					Sol163 25	2.040 - 2.050	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 26	2.060 - 2.150	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 27	2.200 - 2.270	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 28	2.350 - 2.390	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 29	2.420 - 2.470	Coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol163 30	2.530 - 2.540	Distinct fine black tephra		1340
					Sol163 31	2.540 - 2.600	Diffuse coarse dark tephra, highly disturbed		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 20:07:55 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.