An exploratory method to detect tephras from quantitative XRD scans: examples from Iceland and east Greenland marine sediments

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Andrews, J. T., Eberl, D. D., Kristjansdottir, G. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sage 2006
• Subjects: 01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Saksunarvatn; Baffin; East Greenland; Hekla; Iceland
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/110/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/110/1/The%20Holocene-2006-Andrews-1035-42.pdf; http://hol.sagepub.com/content/16/8/1035.abstract; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683606069384

Tephras, mainly from Iceland, are becoming increasingly important in interpreting leads and lags in the Holocene climate system across NW Europe. Here we demonstrate that Quantitative Phase Analysis of x-ray diffractograms of the <2 mm of marine sediment fraction (ie, sand, silt and clay) from Ic...