RS98, Skaftártunga, Skaftárhreppur, Iceland

Your search has found 17 tephra layers at RS98

Site Type Area Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Terrestrial Iceland, Skaftártunga, Skaftárhreppur 63.7848°N 18.5831°W 217

 

*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
923 RS98 P1 n/a Soil section
Katla 1918 Tephra 0.115 - 0.130 3586
Hekla 1845 Tephra 0.205 - 0.215 3586
Laki 1783 Tephra 0.250 - 0.255 3586
Katla 1755 Tephra 0.265 - 0.280 3586
Katla 1660 Tephra 0.320 - 0.325 3586
Katla 1625 Tephra 0.335 - 0.365 3586
Katla 1612 Tephra 0.370 - 0.375 3586
Hekla 1597 Tephra 0.380 - 0.385 3586
Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra 0.430 - 0.440 3586
Grímsvötn 1457 Tephra 0.445 - 0.455 3586
Katla 1416 Tephra 0.470 - 0.480 3586
Hekla 1389 Tephra 0.485 - 0.495 3586
Hekla 1341 Tephra 0.505 - 0.525 3586
Hekla 1300 Tephra 0.545 - 0.555 3586
Katla 1262 Tephra 0.580 - 0.600 3586
Hekla 1206 Tephra 0.635 - 0.665 3586
Hekla 1104 Tephra 0.760 - 0.765 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 18:27:06 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.