RS85, Skaftártunga, Skaftárhreppur, Iceland

Your search has found 18 tephra layers at RS85

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Skaftártunga, Skaftárhreppur	63.6522°N	18.5427°W	212

*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
910	RS85 P1	n/a	Soil section
				Katla 1918 Tephra		0.105 - 0.120			3586
				Hekla 1845 Tephra		0.340 - 0.345			3586
				Katla 1755 Tephra		0.425 - 0.480			3586
				Katla 1660 Tephra		0.575 - 0.585			3586
				Katla 1625 Tephra		0.600 - 0.660			3586
				Katla 1612 Tephra		0.665 - 0.670			3586
				Hekla 1597 Tephra		0.675 - 0.680			3586
				Katla 1500 Tephra		0.730 - 0.740			3586
				Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra		0.750 - 0.760			3586
				Grímsvötn 1457 Tephra		0.765 - 0.770			3586
				Grímsvötn 1432 Tephra		0.785 - 0.795			3586
				Katla 1416 Tephra		0.805 - 0.815			3586
				Hekla 1389 Tephra		0.825 - 0.835			3586
				Hekla 1341 Tephra		0.870 - 0.880			3586
				Hekla 1300 Tephra		0.895 - 0.905			3586
				Katla 1262 Tephra		0.907 - 0.937			3586
				Hekla 1206 Tephra		0.962 - 0.977			3586
				Eldgjá Tephra		1.127 - 1.142			3586

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.

3586: Streeter, R. and Dugmore, A. 2014 Late-Holocene land surface change in a coupled social ecological system, southern Iceland: a cross-scale tephrochronology approach. Quaternary Science Reviews 86, 99-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.016

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 18:41:15 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.