Lake Torfadalsvatn: a high resolution record of the North Atlantic ash zone I and the last glacial‐interglacial environmental changes in Iceland

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: BJÖRCK, SVANTE, INGÓLFSSON, ÓLAFUR, HAFLIDASON, HAFLIDI, HALLSDÖTTIR, MARGRÉT, ANDERSON, N. JOHN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1992
• Subjects: Torfadalsvatn; Iceland; North Atlantic; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1992.tb00009.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1992.tb00009.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1992.tb00009.x

High resolution environmental records with a refined chronology are essential to understand, reconstruct and model the climate dynamics of the last glacial‐interglacial transition. Sediments from Lake Torfadalsvatn in northern Iceland contain at least four primary volcanic tephras that belong to ash...