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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 | 65.4331°N | 17.0767°W | 400 |
Profile | Tephra Layer | ||||||||
No | Name | Total Profile Depth (m) | Type | Correlated name1 | Local name2 | Tephra Depth (m) | Comments | Geochemical data | Ref |
1213 | Selland2a | n/a | Peat section | ||||||
Veiđivötn 1477 Tephra | Selland2a 1 | 0.710 - 1.410 | Dark grey tephra - bedded tephra | 5294 | |||||
Selland2a 2 | 1.460 - 1.660 | Disturbed peat/tephra - thickness in between 10 and 40cm; 20cm average layer thickness | 5294 | ||||||
V-Sv Tephra | Selland2a 3 | 1.660 - 1.680 | Fine olive green tephra | 5294 | |||||
Landnám Tephra | Selland2a 4 | 1.690 - 1.705 | Fine olive green tephra | 5294 | |||||
Selland2a 5 | 1.720 - 1.735 | Reworked coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 6 | 1.735 - 1.750 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 7 | 1.755 - 1.760 | Olive green tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 8 | 1.765 - 1.775 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 9 | 1.805 - 1.820 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 10 | 1.830 - 1.840 | Coarse black tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 11 | 1.860 - 1.870 | Diffuse coarse black tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 12 | 1.895 - 1.910 | Peat and reworked fine dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 13 | 1.910 - 1.920 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 14 | 1.935 - 1.945 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 15 | 1.955 - 1.960 | Diffuse coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 16 | 1.975 - 1.995 | Diffuse coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 17 | 2.055 - 2.065 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 18 | 2.075 - 2.075 | Trace coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 19 | 2.090 - 2.100 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 20 | 2.115 - 2.120 | Coarse black tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 21 | 2.130 - 2.130 | Trace coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 22 | 2.170 - 2.180 | Fine white tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 23 | 2.180 - 2.185 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Selland2a 24 | 2.190 - 2.195 | Coarse dark tephra | 5294 | ||||||
Hverfjall Tephra | Selland2a 25 | 2.205 - 2.220 | Coarse to very coarse black tephra | 5294 | |||||
Hekla 3 Tephra | Selland2a 26 | 2.310 - 2.810 | Fine white tephra | 5294 | |||||
1235 | Selland2b | n/a | Peat section - 25m downstream from Selland2a - Hekla 3 tephra used to link the two profiles. |
*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: Sigurđardóttir, 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
All of the data contained in this database is either published or donated. When using the data, acknowledgement must be made of the original source of the data and that the data was obtained from Tephrabase. See Copyright information.
This Tephrabase search was made on 13/10/2024 at 20:11:37 local time, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.