Abernethy Forest, Highland, Scotland

Your search has found 4 tephra layers at Abernethy Forest

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Grid reference	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Scotland, Highland	57.2360°N	3.7102°W		225

*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
1353	AF	6.90	7-cm-diameter Livingstone piston corer
					AF555	5.530 - 5.570	(*Cryptotephra)	View Data	2977
				Vedde Tephra	AF591	5.850 - 5.910	(*Cryptotephra)	View Data	2977
				Penifiler Tephra	AF638	6.350 - 6.450	Tephra shards spread over more than 20cm interval, 10cm interval stated here has the highest shard concentration. (*Cryptotephra)	View Data	2977
				Borrobol Tephra	AF672	6.690 - 6.720	(*Cryptotephra)	View Data	2977

References

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2977: Matthews, IP, Birks, HH, Bourne, AJ, Brooks, SJ, Lowe, JJ, Macleod, A and Pyne-O'Donnell, SDF 2011 New age estimates and climatostratigraphic correlations for the Borrobol and Penifiler Tephras: evidence from Abernethy Forest, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science 26, ,247-252. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1498

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 19:47:56 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.