Tephrabase: Profile and SeAR Generator

This page have links to tools that create stratigraphic profiles for sites across Europe and calculates sediment accummulation rates (SeAR) for Icelandic terrestrial tephra profiles. These were originally developed in 2011 by Dale Cameron for his MSc Geographical Information Science dissertation at the University of Edinburgh. The current system is based on Dale's excellent work.

Initially the data used in this extension was from Richard Streeter's 2012 PhD thesis (Streeter, 2012) and further details can be found in Streeter and Dugmore (2014). Now the Sediment Accumulation Rate Calculator has been extended to cover other Icelandic sites. Also, the Tephrostratigraphic Profile Generator is available for different sites accross Europe. Other suitable data will be linked into this system in the future.

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References

Cameron, D. (2011) Tephra profiles and time: A four-dimensional extension to Tephrabase. The University of Edinburgh, Unpublished MSc Dissertation. 165 pp. More details available here.

Streeter, R. (2012) Tephrochronology, landscape and population: impacts of plague on medieval Iceland. The University of Edinburgh, Unpublished PhD Thesis. 244 pp. Access here.

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. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.016.