A summary of terminology used in tephra-related studies [PDF]
, 2001 The word ‘tephra’, derived from a Greek word for ash, is a collective term for all the unconsolidated, primary pyroclastic products of a volcanic eruption.
Hunt, John B., Lowe, David J.
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Stratigraphy and chronology of a 15ka sequence of multi-sourced silicic tephras in a montane peat bog, eastern North Island, New Zealand. [PDF]
, 1999 We document the stratigraphy, composition, and chronology of a succession of 16 distal, silicic tephra layers interbedded with lateglacial and Holocene peats and muds up to c. 15 000 radiocarbon years (c.
Lowe, David J. +2 more
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Ultra-distal tephra deposits and Bayesian modelling constrain a variable marine radiocarbon offset in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland [PDF]
Geochronology, 2023 Radiocarbon dating marine sediments is complicated by the strongly heterogeneous age of ocean waters. Tephrochronology provides a well-established method to constrain the age of local radiocarbon reservoirs and more accurately calibrate dates.
A. J. Monteath +5 more
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Dating peat profiles using tephra: stratigraphy, geochemistry and chronology [PDF]
Mires and Peat, 2010 In this article we provide a brief overview of the protocols for dating peat profiles using tephrochronology. A standardised methodology for the detection, extraction and analysis of tephras is presented and the relevant problems and limitations are ...
G.T. Swindles +2 more
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Geological evidence for paleotsunamis along eastern Sicily (Italy): an overview [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2012 We present geological evidence for paleotsunamis along the ~230 km-long coast of eastern Sicily (Italy); combining this information with historical data, we reconstruct a unique history of tsunami inundations.
P. M. De Martini +6 more
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Quaternary Science Advances, 2023 We present the results of the tephrochronology study of a 14.49 m long marine sediment core (TR 17–08) collected in the Edisto Inlet, Ross Sea (Antarctica).
Alessio Di Roberto +14 more
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Tephrochronology and its application: A review [PDF]
Quaternary Geochronology, 2011 Abstract Tephrochronology (from tephra , Gk ‘ashes’) is a unique stratigraphic method for linking, dating, and synchronizing geological, palaeoenvironmental, or archaeological sequences or events. As well as utilizing the Law of Superposition, tephrochronology in practise requires tephra deposits to be characterized (or ‘fingerprinted’) using ...
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QuaternaryThe analysis of tephra layers in maar lake sediments of the Eifel shows 14 well-visible tephra during the last glacial cycle from the Holocene to the Eemian (0–130,000 yr b2k).
Frank Sirocko +5 more
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Big grains go far: understanding the discrepancy between tephrochronology and satellite infrared measurements of volcanic ash [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2015 There is a large discrepancy between the size of volcanic ash particles measured on the ground at least 500 km from their source volcano (known as cryptotephra) and those reported by satellite remote sensing (effective radius of 0.5–9 μm; 95% of ...
J. A. Stevenson +4 more
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Vedde Ash constrains Younger Dryas glacier re-advance and rapid glacio-isostatic rebound on Svalbard
Quaternary Science Advances, 2022 The distal deposition of tephra from explosive volcanism has the potential to geochronologically constrain sedimentary archives and landforms.
Wesley R. Farnsworth +12 more
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