First identification of cryptotephra from the Kamchatka Peninsula in a Greenland ice core: Implications of a widespread marker deposit that links Greenland to the Pacific northwest

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Cook, Eliza, Portnyagin, Maxim, Ponomareva, Vera, Bazanova, Lilia, Svensson, Anders, Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Greenland; Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Greenland ice core; ice core; Kamchatka; NGRIP
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/41179/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/41179/2/Cook_mmc1.docx; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/41179/3/Cook_mmc2.xlsx; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/41179/10/Cook.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.036

Highlights • Widespread Holocene tephra KHG, from Kamchatka, is found as a cryptotephra in the NGRIP ice-core. • This is the first identification of tephra from the Kamchatka Peninsula in Greenland ice. • NGRIP KHG has an age of 7872 ± 50 a BP and improves age models for Kamchatka. • Existing 14C ag...