Identification of cryptotephra horizons in a North East Atlantic marine record spanning marine isotope stages 4 and 5a (similar to 60,000-82,000 a b2k)

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Abbott, Peter M., Davies, Siwan M., Austin, William E. N., Pearce, Nicholas J. G., Hibbert, Fiona D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: ICE-CORE; HIGH-RESOLUTION; LAST INTERGLACIAL PERIOD; VEDDE ASH; NORWEGIAN SEA; LATE QUATERNARY; GLASS SHARDS; TEPHRA LAYERS; VOLCANIC ASH LAYERS; SILICIC VOLCANISM; Greenland; Norwegian Sea; Rockall Trough; ice core; Iceland; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/identification-of-cryptotephra-horizons-in-a-north-east-atlantic-marine-record-spanning-marine-isotope-stages-4-and-5a-similar-to-6000082000-a-b2k(3ad52055-cae5-4648-a5b2-30b74ad8f593).html; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.033

Tephrochronology is one of the few techniques that offer considerable, but as yet largely unrealised, potential for the correlation of North Atlantic palaeoclimatic archives spanning the MIS 4 and 5a substage period - a phase of pronounced global cooling during the initiation of the last glacial per...