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This page contains the results of your search. It is divided into two sections. The first contains information about any tephra layers present at the site and the second part contains details about the source references and the date and time of the search.
Site Type | Area | Latitude | Longitude | Altitude (m) |
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Terrestrial | Iceland, Mývatnssveit | 65.5166°N | 17.1166°W | 320 |
Profile | Tephra Layer | ||||||||
No | Name | Total Profile Depth (m) | Type | Correlated name1 | Local name2 | Tephra Depth (m) | Comments | Geochemical data | Ref |
1192 | H11 | n/a | Soil section | ||||||
Veiðivötn 1717 Tephra | H11 1 | 0.650 - 0.655 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | |||||
Veiðivötn 1477 Tephra | H11 2 | 0.705 - 0.755 | Dark grey tephra | 5294 | |||||
V-Sv Tephra | H11 3 | 0.795 - 0.800 | Fine olive green tephra | 5294 | |||||
Landnám Tephra | H11 4 | 0.810 - 0.810 | Trace fine olive green tephra | 5294 | |||||
H11 5 | 0.820 - 0.830 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 6 | 0.835 - 0.835 | Trace fine olive green tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 7 | 0.836 - 0.841 | Fine black tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 8 | 0.856 - 0.861 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 10 | 0.890 - 0.906 | Trace fine white tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 9 | 0.891 - 0.896 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 11 | 0.923 - 0.926 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 12 | 0.936 - 0.941 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 13 | 0.951 - 0.961 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 14 | 0.981 - 0.986 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 15 | 0.996 - 1.001 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 16 | 1.006 - 1.011 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
H11 17 | 1.016 - 1.046 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Hekla 3 Tephra | H11 18 | 1.061 - 1.111 | Fine white tephra | 5294 | |||||
H11 19 | 1.121 - 1.121 | Trace coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Hekla 4 Tephra | H11 20 | 1.206 - 1.221 | Fine white tephra at base to grey tephra at top | 5294 |
*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.
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.
5294: Sigurðardóttir, R., Newton, A. J., Hicks, M. T., Dugmore, A. J., Hreinsson, V., Ogilvie, A. E. J., Júlíusson, Á. D., Einarsson, Á., Hartman, S., Simpson, I. A., Vésteinsson, O., and McGovern, T. M. 2019 Trolls, Water, Time, and Community: Resource Management in the Mývatn District of Northeast Iceland. Studies in Human Ecology, Vol. 11: Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management Lozny, L. R. and McGovern, T. H., Springer International Publishing, New York,77-101. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-15800-2_5
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This Tephrabase search was made on 13/11/2024 at 18:25:40 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.