Kortlandamossen, Värmland, Sweden

Your search has found 4 tephra layers at Kortlandamossen

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Sweden, Värmland	59.8460°N	12.2640°E	123

*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
105	Kortlandamossen 1	4.00	11cm wide Russian corer
				Askja 1875 Tephra	Kortlandamossen 15-20	0.150 - 0.200	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1680
				Hekla 3 Tephra	Kortlandamossen 250-255	2.500 - 2.550	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1680
				Hekla S Tephra (Kebister Tephra)	Kort 62	3.200 - 3.250		View Data	1208
				Hekla 4 Tephra	Kortlandamossen 365-370	3.650 - 3.700	*Cryptotephra	View Data	1680

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.

1208: Boygle, J. 1998 A little goes a long way: discovery of a new mid-Holocene tephra in Sweden. Boreas 27, 195-199..

1680: Boygle, J. 2004 Towards a Holocene tephrochronology for Sweden: geochemistry and correlation with the North Atlantic tephra stratigraphy. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 103-109..

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This Tephrabase search was made on 4/7/2025 at 19:10:40 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.