Deep-sea sediment core PS2644 record from the southern Greenland Sea ...

• Main Authors: Voelker, Antje H L, Haflidason, Haflidi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Greenland Sea; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.831474; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.831474

The PS2644 deep-sea core sequence, retrieved from the northwestern margin of Iceland and covering the last 86 ka, exhibits high sedimentation rates during the last glacial cycle that allow the clear distinction of Greenland stadial (GS)/ interstadial (GI) cycles in the various proxy records. Abundance records of rhyolitic, basaltic and tachylytic tephra grains reveal several maxima. Tephra grains of all types were geochemically analyzed in 44 levels. A total of 92 tephras with a distinctive character have been defined within the glacial sequence of gravity core PS2644-5, whereas the Holocene record is dominated by reworked Vedde Ash grains and not suitable for tephra stratigraphic work. Of the 92 tephras only 19 geochemical populations have been linked with confidence to previously defined tephras such as from the Vedde Ash, Faeroe Marine Ash Zones (FMAZ) II and III and North Atlantic Ash Zone (NAAZ) II. For the glacial period informal names were given to 78 new tephras, most of which are basaltic tephras. ... : Supplement to: Voelker, Antje H L; Haflidason, Haflidi (2015): Refining the Icelandic tephrachronology of the last glacial period – The deep-sea core PS2644 record from the southern Greenland Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 131, 35-62 ...