Towards a Holocene tephrochronology for the Faroe Islands, North Atlantic

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Wastegård, Stefan, Gudmundsdóttir, Esther R., Lind, Ewa M., Timms, Rhys G.O., Björck, Svante, Hannon, Gina E., Olsen, Jesper, Rundgren, Mats
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Geology; Faroe Islands; Holocene; North Atlantic; Paleoclimatology; Quaternary; Saksunarvatn; Tjørnuvík; Iceland
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/3f904e30-b4e4-45d3-a233-9be3916bd7ea; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.024

The Faroe Islands hold a key position in the North Atlantic region for tephra studies due to their relative proximity to Iceland. Several tephras have been described over the last 50 years in peat and lake sediment sequences, including the type sites for the Saksunarvatn and Mjáuvøtn tephras. Here w...