Towards a Holocene tephrochronology for the Faroe Islands, north Atlantic

S Wastegård, ER Gudmundsdóttir, EM Lind… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Faroe Islands hold a key position in the North Atlantic region for tephra studies
due to their relative proximity to Iceland. Several tephras have been described over the last …

The Eurasian modern pollen database (EMPD), version 2

BAS Davis, M Chevalier, P Sommer… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to
provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support …

Downward migrating microplastics in lake sediments are a tricky indicator for the onset of the Anthropocene

I Dimante-Deimantovica, S Saarni, M Barone… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Plastics are a recent particulate material in Earth's history. Because of plastics persistence
and wide-range presence, it has a great potential of being a global age marker and …

[PDF][PDF] Drivers of peat accumulation rate in a raised bog: impact of drainage, climate, and local vegetation composition

N Stivrins, I Ozola, M Galka, E Kuske… - Mires and …, 2017 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
We used variation partitioning to assess the relative importance of drainage, climate and
local vegetation composition for the development of a raised bog. As a case study we …

Far‐travelled ash in past and future eruptions: combining tephrochronology with volcanic studies

KV Cashman, AC Rust - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of recent eruptions have improved our understanding of volcanic ash transport and
deposition, but have also raised important questions about the behaviour of far‐travelled …

Site-specific sediment responses to climate change during the last 140 years in three varved lakes in Northern Poland

F Ott, M Kramkowski, S Wulf, B Plessen… - The …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Accurate dating and unambiguous chronological correlation using cryptotephras provide a
powerful tool to compare the varved sediment records of the lakes Głęboczek (JG) …

[HTML][HTML] A Holocene tephrochronological framework for Finland

M Kalliokoski, ER Guðmundsdóttir, S Wastegård… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Regional tephrochronological frameworks serve as dating and correlating tools that enable
critical assessment of the validity of single cryptotephra findings. In this study, our aim was to …

A catalogue of major and trace element data for Icelandic Holocene silicic tephra layers

RHH Meara, TH Thordarson… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tephra layers with Icelandic provenance have been identified across the North Atlantic
region in terrestrial, lacustrine, marine and glacial environments. These tephra layers are …

Braided motivations for Iceland's first wave of mass emigration to North America after the 1875 Askja eruption

U Büntgen, O Eggertsson, C Oppenheimer - Regional Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
More than 14,000 Icelanders emigrated to North America between 1870 and 1914 CE. Mass
movement from Iceland accelerated the year after the explosive eruption of Askja in 1875 …

Long-term consequences of water pumping on the ecosystem functioning of Lake Sekšu, Latvia

I Zawiska, I Dimante-Deimantovica, TP Luoto… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cultural eutrophication, the process by which pollution due to human activity speeds up
natural eutrophication, is a widespread and consequential issue. Here, we present the 85 …