Atmospheric Aerosol Loading and Transport Due to the 1783-84 Laki Eruption in Iceland, Interpreted from Ash Particles and Acidity in the GISP2 Ice Core

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Fiacco, R. Joseph, Thordarson, Thorvaldur, Germani, Mark S., Self, Stephen, Palais, Julie M., Whitlow, Sallie, Grootes, Peter M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1994
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Laki; Greenland ice core; ice core; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/qres.1994.1074; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S003358948471074X?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S003358948471074X?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400037297

Abstract Glass shards from the A.D. 1783 Laki fissure eruption in Iceland have been identified in the GISP2 ice core from Summit, Greenland, at a level just preceding the major acidity/sulfate peak. Detailed reconstruction of ice stratigraphy, coupled with analyses of solid particles from filtered s...