Sluggan Bog, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Your search has found 13 tephra layers at Sluggan Bog

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Grid reference	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Northern Ireland, County Antrim	54.7650°N	6.2931°W	J 099921	50

*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
41	Sluggan Core A	3.50	Jowsey Corer
				Hekla 4 Tephra	Sluggan A, 335-345	3.350 - 3.450	*Cryptotephra	View Data	854
42	Sluggan Monolith 8	0.50	Hand dug monolith
				SLU-5 Tephra		0.050 - 0.070	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1561
				Hekla 1510 Tephra		0.080 - 0.100	*Cryptotephra	View Data	968
				Öræfajökull 1362 Tephra	Sluggen 8, 20-22cm	0.200 - 0.220	*Cryptotephra	View Data	854
				Hekla 1104 Tephra	Sluggan 8, 30-31	0.300 - 0.310	*Cryptotephra	View Data	854
				(860 AD Layer part A Tephra)	Sluggen 8, 36-38cm part A	0.360 - 0.380	(*Cryptotephra)	View Data	854
				(860 AD Layer part B Tephra)	Sluggen 8, 36-38cm part B	0.360 - 0.380	(*Cryptotephra)	View Data	854
64	Sluggan Monolith 10	2.00	Hand dug monolith
				Lairg Tephra B		1.340 - 1.350	*Cryptotephra	View Data	968
				Lairg Tephra A		1.490 - 1.500	*Cryptotephra	View Data	968
1174	Sluggan06	n/a	Monolith tins
				Hekla 1510 Tephra	QUB461	0.090 - 0.100	*Cryptotephra		2025
				860 AD Layer part B Tephra	QUB459	0.320 - 0.340	*Cryptotephra		2025
				OMH-185 (Microlite) Tephra	QUB482	1.170 - 1.190	*Cryptotephra		2025
				Hekla 4 Tephra	QUB460	1.760 - 1.780	*Cryptotephra		2025

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.

1561: Hall, V.A. and Pilcher, J.R. 2002 Late-Quaternary Icelandic tephras in Ireland and Great Britain: detection, characterization and usefulness. The Holocene 12, 223-230..

968: Pilcher, J.R., Hall, V.A. and McCormac, F.G. 1996 An outline tephrochronology for the Holocene of the north of Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science 11 (6), 485-494.. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1417(199611/12)11:6<485::AID-JQS266>3.0.CO;2-T

854: Pilcher, J.R., Hall, V.A., and McCormac, F.G. 1995 Dates of Holocene Icelandic volcanic eruptions from tephra layers in Irish peats.. The Holocene 5(1), 103-110.

2025: Plunkett, G. 2006 Tephra-linked peat humification records from Irish ombrotrophic bogs question nature of solar forcing at 850 cal. yr RC. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 9-16.

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 19:16:00 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.