Linking the North Atlantic to central Europe: a high‐resolution Holocene tephrochronological record from northern Germany

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: van den Bogaard, Christel, Schmincke, Hans‐Ulrich
• Other Authors: Bundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie, Kultusministerium of Schleswig-Holstein.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Garry; Askja; Torfajökull; Selsund; Hekla; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.636; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.636; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.636

Abstract A high‐resolution Holocene tephrochronology for northern Germany has been established based on systematic tephrostratigraphical analysis of three peat bogs. Microscopic volcanic ash layers have been traced and characterised petrographically and by the chemical composition of the glass shard...