A 9000-Year-old Ash Bed on the Faroe Islands

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Mangerud, Jan, Furnes, Harald, Jóhansen, Johannes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1986
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Norway; Norwegian Sea; Saksunarvatn; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(86)90109-2; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589486901092?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:0033589486901092?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400023346

Radiocarbon datings of the Saksunarvatn ash bed on the Faroe Islands indicate an age of 9000–9100 yr B.P. The Saksunarvatn ash bed differs geochemically from both ash zone 1 in the North Atlantic and the Vedde Ash Bed of Norway and the Norwegian Sea. All mentioned ashes are assumed to originate from...