Tephra Layers in a Sediment Core from Lake Hestvatn, Southern Iceland: Implications for Evaluating Sedimentation Processes and Environmental Impacts on a Lacustrine System Caused by Tephra Fall Deposits in the Surrounding Watershed

Volcaniclastic Sedimentation in Lacustrine Settings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-246

  Hardardottir J ^a,d   Geirsdottir A ^b   Thordarson T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d National Energy Authority Reykjavik   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Core collection, core description and sediment sampling; Depositional processes and impact of tephra; Downcore changes magnetic zone I, II, III, IV; Identification of tephra layers and chronology; Lake Hestvatn geological and geographical setting; Lakes sensitive recorders of eruptions and response of distal landscapes; Sedimentological, magnetic and chemical analyses; Tephra layers; Tephra layers in a sediment core from Lake Hestvatn, southern Iceland; Volcanic activity of Nevado de Toluca during late Pleistocene times

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; FALLOUT; LAKES; MAGNETISM; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SILICA; TRACE ELEMENTS; VEGETATION; VOLCANOES; WATERSHEDS;

DEPOSITIONAL PROCESS; DOWNCORE CHANGES - MAGNETIC ZONE I, II, III, IV; NEVADO DE TOLUCA; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT SAMPLING; TEPHRA LAYERS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84948966117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304251.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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