Sol18, Mırdalshreppur, Iceland

Your search has found 13 tephra layers at Sol18

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Mırdalshreppur	63.5132°N	19.3731°W	140

*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
1327	Sol18	n/a	Soil section
				Hekla 1947 Tephra	Sol18 1	0.020 - 0.025			1340
				Katla 1823 Tephra	Sol18 2	0.405 - 0.425			1340
				Katla 1755 Tephra	Sol18 3	0.655 - 0.660			1340
					Sol18 4	0.870 - 0.910	Coarse, very dark grey tephra		1340
					Sol18 5	1.040 - 1.080	Coarse black tephra		1340
					Sol18 6	1.110 - 1.130	Coarse to very coarse, very dark grey tephra		1340
					Sol18 7	1.140 - 1.150	Fine grey tephra and coarse fragments		1340
					Sol18 8	1.170 - 1.220	Fine to coarse dark tephra		1340
					Sol18 9	1.245 - 1.250	Fine grey tephra and coarse fragments		1340
				Katla 1416 Tephra	Sol18 10	1.260 - 1.275	Fine to coarse dark tephra		1340
				Katla 1357 Tephra	Sol18 11	1.345 - 1.395			1340
				Hekla 1341 Tephra	Sol18 12	1.415 - 1.465			1340
				Hekla 1300 Tephra	Sol18 13	1.495 - 1.525			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 18:38:11 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.