New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland
Four Holocene tephras of Icelandic origin have been identified and geochemically characterised from a water shedding blanket peat sequence on the Trotternish ridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Geochemical characterisation of the shards propose the Glen Garry tephra to be present, a tephra layer of Hekla...
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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:15176 2023-07-30T04:04:00+02:00 New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland Langdon, P.G. Barber, K.E. 2001 https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/15176/ unknown Langdon, P.G. and Barber, K.E. (2001) New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16 (8), 753-759. (doi:10.1002/jqs.655 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.655>). Article PeerReviewed 2001 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.655 2023-07-09T20:32:57Z Four Holocene tephras of Icelandic origin have been identified and geochemically characterised from a water shedding blanket peat sequence on the Trotternish ridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Geochemical characterisation of the shards propose the Glen Garry tephra to be present, a tephra layer of Hekla origin incorporating shards from Hekla-4, as well as two new tephras dated by interpolation from a radiocarbon based chronology to ca. 830 cal. yr BP and ca. 2340 cal. yr BP. The new historic tephra has an ambiguous geochemistry and therefore has not been correlated with other known Icelandic historic tephras. The new prehistoric tephra is suggested as originating from the Snæfellsjökull volcano in northwest Iceland and forms an important stratigraphical marker in this Holocene sequence. A proxy climate record has been derived from humification analyses of the peat, which compares well with other regional palaeoclimatic reconstructions, as well as enabling correlations based on tephra geochemical linkages between sites and climatic records at precise times in the past. Article in Journal/Newspaper Hekla Iceland Snæfellsjökull University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Garry ENVELOPE(-62.233,-62.233,-63.350,-63.350) Snæfellsjökull ENVELOPE(-23.769,-23.769,64.811,64.811) Journal of Quaternary Science 16 8 753 759 |
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Four Holocene tephras of Icelandic origin have been identified and geochemically characterised from a water shedding blanket peat sequence on the Trotternish ridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Geochemical characterisation of the shards propose the Glen Garry tephra to be present, a tephra layer of Hekla origin incorporating shards from Hekla-4, as well as two new tephras dated by interpolation from a radiocarbon based chronology to ca. 830 cal. yr BP and ca. 2340 cal. yr BP. The new historic tephra has an ambiguous geochemistry and therefore has not been correlated with other known Icelandic historic tephras. The new prehistoric tephra is suggested as originating from the Snæfellsjökull volcano in northwest Iceland and forms an important stratigraphical marker in this Holocene sequence. A proxy climate record has been derived from humification analyses of the peat, which compares well with other regional palaeoclimatic reconstructions, as well as enabling correlations based on tephra geochemical linkages between sites and climatic records at precise times in the past. |
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Langdon, P.G. Barber, K.E. New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland |
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New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland |
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New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland |
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New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland |
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New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland |
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New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland |
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new holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern skye, scotland |
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Langdon, P.G. and Barber, K.E. (2001) New Holocene tephras and a proxy climate record from a blanket mire in northern Skye, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16 (8), 753-759. (doi:10.1002/jqs.655 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.655>). |
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