RS159, Skaftártunga, Skaftárhreppur, Iceland

Your search has found 16 tephra layers at RS159

Site Type	Area	Latitude	Longitude	Altitude (m)
Terrestrial	Iceland, Skaftártunga, Skaftárhreppur	63.8039°N	18.6044°W	308

*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
984	RS159 P1	n/a	Soil section
				Katla 1918 Tephra		0.095 - 0.115			3586
				Hekla 1845 Tephra		0.125 - 0.135			3586
				Katla 1755 Tephra		0.160 - 0.165			3586
				Katla 1625 Tephra		0.205 - 0.245			3586
				Katla 1612 Tephra		0.250 - 0.255			3586
				Hekla 1597 Tephra		0.260 - 0.265			3586
				Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra		0.310 - 0.330			3586
				Grímsvötn 1457 Tephra		0.340 - 0.360			3586
				Katla 1416 Tephra		0.380 - 0.395			3586
				Hekla 1389 Tephra		0.415 - 0.430			3586
				Hekla 1341 Tephra		0.460 - 0.465			3586
				Hekla 1300 Tephra		0.480 - 0.485			3586
				Katla 1262 Tephra		0.495 - 0.515			3586
				Hekla 1206 Tephra		0.535 - 0.550			3586
				Eldgjá Tephra		0.750 - 0.940			3586
				Landnám Tephra		0.995 - 1.085			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 20:35:24 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.