Tracing marine cryptotephras in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period:Improving the North Atlantic marine tephrostratigraphic framework

Abbott, Peter M., Griggs, Adam J., Bourne, Anna J., Chapman, Mark R. and Davies, Siwan M. (2018) Tracing marine cryptotephras in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period:Improving the North Atlantic marine tephrostratigraphic framework. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189. pp. 169-186. ISSN 0277-3791

Preview

PDF (Accepted manuscript) - Accepted Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download (2MB) | Preview

Abstract

Tephrochronology is increasingly being recognised as a key tool for the correlation of disparate palaeoclimatic archives, underpinning chronological models and facilitating climatically independent comparisons of climate proxies. Tephra frameworks integrating both distal and proximal tephra occurrences are essential to these investigations providing key details on their spatial distributions, geochemical signatures, eruptive sources as well as any available chronological and/or stratigraphic information. Frameworks also help to avoid mis-correlation of horizons and provide important information on volcanic history. Here we present a comprehensive chronostratigraphic framework of 14 tephra horizons from North Atlantic marine sequences spanning 60-25 cal ka BP. Horizons previously discovered as visible or coarse-grained deposits have been combined with 11 newly recognised volcanic deposits, identified through the application of cryptotephra identification and characterisation methods to a wide network of marine sequences. Their isochronous integrity has been assessed using their physical characteristics. All horizons originated from Iceland with the vast majority having a basaltic composition sourced from the Grímsvötn, Kverkfjöll, Hekla/Vatnafjöll and Katla volcanic systems. New occurrences, improved stratigraphic placements and a refinement of the geochemical signature of the NAAZ II are reported and the range of the FMAZ IV has been extended. In addition, several significant geochemical populations that further investigations could show to be isochronous are reported. This tephra framework provides the foundation for the correlation and synchronisation of these marine records to the Greenland ice-cores and European terrestrial records to investigate the phasing, rate, timing and mechanisms controlling rapid climate changes that characterised the last glacial period.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	marine cores,north atlantic,palaeoceanography,quaternary,tephra framework,tephrochronology,sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Geosciences
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 May 2018 15:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 03:48
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67149
DOI:	10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.023

Downloads

Actions (login required)

View Item