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The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the use of tephra layer morphology to infer surface qualities of past landscapes. By examining how environmental processes affect the development of an enduring tephra record, this thesis assesses the potential of using tephra layer morphology to infer sur...
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ftdatacite:10.7488/era/3343 2023-06-11T04:13:05+02:00 Environmental controls on tephra layer morphology ... Thompson, Polly I. J. 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/3343 https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/40578 unknown The University of Edinburgh Environmental controls tephra layer morphology surface qualities past landscapes tephra surface environmental conditions near sub-surface grain size distribution GSD Iceland Scotland cryogenic landforms CT scanning palaeoenvironmental reconstruction tephra deposition tephra downslope soil micromorphology stratigraphy volcanological research article CreativeWork 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7488/era/3343 2023-06-01T11:49:29Z The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the use of tephra layer morphology to infer surface qualities of past landscapes. By examining how environmental processes affect the development of an enduring tephra record, this thesis assesses the potential of using tephra layer morphology to infer surface environmental conditions of the past. A variety of processes operate at both the land surface and in the near sub-surface that can impact the preservation of tephra layers, and this thesis examines whether this is expressed in layer thickness, morphology and grain size distribution (GSD). A preserved tephra layer may have been fundamentally shaped by the nature of the surface environment at the time the tephra was deposited. These are assessed by examining different tephra layers (up to 20 cm thick) in a variety of different environmental settings in Iceland, collecting over 10,000 individual measurements, combined with controlled experiments in Scotland. A series of case-studied are used: 1) assessing the ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Environmental controls tephra layer morphology surface qualities past landscapes tephra surface environmental conditions near sub-surface grain size distribution GSD Iceland Scotland cryogenic landforms CT scanning palaeoenvironmental reconstruction tephra deposition tephra downslope soil micromorphology stratigraphy volcanological research Thompson, Polly I. J. Environmental controls on tephra layer morphology ... |
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The overall aim of this thesis is to assess the use of tephra layer morphology to infer surface qualities of past landscapes. By examining how environmental processes affect the development of an enduring tephra record, this thesis assesses the potential of using tephra layer morphology to infer surface environmental conditions of the past. A variety of processes operate at both the land surface and in the near sub-surface that can impact the preservation of tephra layers, and this thesis examines whether this is expressed in layer thickness, morphology and grain size distribution (GSD). A preserved tephra layer may have been fundamentally shaped by the nature of the surface environment at the time the tephra was deposited. These are assessed by examining different tephra layers (up to 20 cm thick) in a variety of different environmental settings in Iceland, collecting over 10,000 individual measurements, combined with controlled experiments in Scotland. A series of case-studied are used: 1) assessing the ... |
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