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Do peatlands or lakes provide the most comprehensive distal tephra records?
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dc.contributor.author | Watson, E. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Swindles, G. T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lawson, Ian Thomas | |
dc.contributor.author | Savov, I. P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-23T12:30:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-03-23T12:30:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Watson , E J , Swindles , G T , Lawson , I T & Savov , I P 2016 , ' Do peatlands or lakes provide the most comprehensive distal tephra records? ' , Quaternary Science Reviews , vol. 139 , pp. 110-128 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.011 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0277-3791 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 241578034 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 62524153-d8e8-495f-813f-de56b9489a0b | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:E93B706CEC08EED6CCC447CA71E9F300 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84977126596 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000374606100009 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3547-2425/work/75996912 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/8468 | |
dc.description | This research was undertaken while Elizabeth Watson held a NERC-funded Doctoral Training Grant (NE/K500847/1). GTS acknowledges support from the Dutch Foundation for the Conservation of Irish Bogs. IS and EJW thank CGS for generous support of the fieldwork in Sweden. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Despite the widespread application of tephra studies for dating and correlation of stratigraphic sequences (‘tephrochronology’), questions remain over the reliability and replicability of tephra records from lake sediments and peats, particularly in sites >1000 km from source volcanoes. To address this, we examine the tephrostratigraphy of four pairs of lake and peatland sites in close proximity to one another (<10 km), and evaluate the extent to which the microscopic (crypto-) tephra records in lakes and peatlands differ. The peatlands typically record more cryptotephra layers than nearby lakes, but cryptotephra records from high-latitude peatlands can be incomplete, possibly due to tephra fallout onto snow and subsequent redistribution across the peatland surface by wind and during snowmelt. We find no evidence for chemical alteration of glass shards in peatland or lake environments over the time scale of this study (mid-to late- Holocene). Instead, the low number of basaltic cryptotephra layers identified in distal peatlands reflects the capture of only primary tephra-fall, whereas lakes concentrate tephra falling across their catchments which subsequently washes into the lake, adding to the primary tephra fallout received in the lake. A combination of records from both lakes and peatlands must be used to establish the most comprehensive and complete regional tephrostratigraphies. We also describe two previously unreported late Holocene cryptotephras and demonstrate, for the first time, that Holocene Icelandic ash clouds frequently reached Arctic Sweden. | |
dc.format.extent | 19 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Quaternary Science Reviews | en |
dc.rights | © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en |
dc.subject | Tephrochronology | en |
dc.subject | Cryptotephra | en |
dc.subject | Northern Europe | en |
dc.subject | Holocene | en |
dc.subject | Basalt | en |
dc.subject | G Geography (General) | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | G1 | en |
dc.title | Do peatlands or lakes provide the most comprehensive distal tephra records? | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Institute | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.011 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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