Re-deposited cryptotephra layers in Holocene peats linked to anthropogenic activity.

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Swindles, G. T., Galloway, J., Outram, Z., Turner, K., Schofield, J. E., Newton, A. J., Dugmore, A. J., Church, M. J., Watson, E., Batt, C., Bond, J. M., Edwards, K. J., Turner, V., Bashford, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sage 2013
• Subjects: Archaeology; Hekla; Re-working; Shetland Islands; Taphonomy; Tephra; Selsund
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/13564/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/13564/1/13564.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613489586

Tephra layers can form useful age-equivalent stratigraphic markers for correlating palaeoenvironmental sequences and they provide information about the spatio-temporal nature of past volcanic ash fall events. The use of microscopic ‘cryptotephra’ layers has both increased the stratigraphic resolutio...