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Förster, Michael W; Sirocko, Frank (2016): Tephra-stack of combined sediment record ELSA [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.868671, Supplement to: Förster, MW; Sirocko, F (2016): The ELSA tephra stack: Volcanic activity in the Eifel during the last 500,000 years. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 100-107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.07.012

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Abstract:
Tephra layers of individual volcanic eruptions are traced in several cores from Eifel maar lakes, drilled between 1998 and 2014 by the Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive (ELSA). All sediment cores are dated by 14C and tuned to the Greenland interstadial succession. Tephra layers were characterized by the petrographic composition of basement rock fragments, glass shards and characteristic volcanic minerals. 10 marker tephra, including the well-established Laacher See Tephra and Dümpelmaar Tephra can be identified in the cores spanning the last glacial cycle. Older cores down to the beginning of the Elsterian, show numerous tephra sourced from Strombolian and phreatomagmatic eruptions, including the 40Ar/39Ar dated differentiated tephra from Glees and Hüttenberg. In total, at least 91 individual tephra can be identified since the onset of the Eifel volcanic activity at about 500,000 b2k, which marks the end of the ELSA tephra stack with 35 Strombolian, 48 phreatomagmatic and 8 tephra layers of evolved magma composition. Many eruptions cluster near timings of the global climate transitions at 140,000, 110,000 and 60,000 b2k. In total, the eruptions show a pattern, which resembles timing of phases of global sea level and continental ice sheet changes, indicating a relation between endogenic and exogenic processes.
Related to:
Brunck, Heiko; Sirocko, Frank; Albert, Johannes (2016): The ELSA-Flood-Stack: A reconstruction from the laminated sediments of Eifel maar structures during the last 60000 years. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 136-146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.12.003
Sirocko, Frank (2016): The ELSA - Stacks (Eifel-Laminated-Sediment-Archive): An introduction. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 96-99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.03.011
Sirocko, Frank; Knapp, Hannes; Dreher, Frank; Förster, Michael W; Albert, Johannes; Brunck, Heiko; Veres, Daniel; Dietrich, Stephan; Zech, Michael; Hambach, Ulrich; Röhner, Marieke; Rudert, Saskia; Schwiebus, Klaus; Adams, Christel; Sigl, Petra (2016): The ELSA-Vegetation-Stack: Reconstruction of Landscape Evolution Zones (LEZ) from laminated Eifel maar sediments of the last 60,000years. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 108-135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.03.005
Coverage:
Latitude: 50.160000 * Longitude: 6.830000
Event(s):
ELSA (Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive) * Latitude: 50.160000 * Longitude: 6.830000 * Comment: Combination of different ELSA-Cores
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
AgeAgeka b2kFörster, Michael W
Tephra or volcanic ashTephra#Förster, Michael WPlinian
Tephra markerTephraFörster, Michael WPlinian
Tephra or volcanic ashTephra#Förster, Michael WPhreatomagmatic
Tephra markerTephraFörster, Michael WPhreatomagmatic
Tephra or volcanic ashTephra#Förster, Michael WStrombolian
Tephra markerTephraFörster, Michael WStrombolian
Size:
325 data points

Data

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Age [ka b2k]

Tephra [#]
(Plinian)

Tephra
(Plinian)

Tephra [#]
(Phreatomagmatic)

Tephra
(Phreatomagmatic)

Tephra [#]
(Strombolian)

Tephra
(Strombolian)
1.000000
10.999000
11.00001Ulmer Maar tephra0
11.001000
12.899000
12.9001Laacher See tephra00
12.901000
27.899000
001Wartgesberg tephra
27.901000
30.199000
30.200001unknown tephra 1
30.201000
40.999000
41.00001Dreiser Weiher tephra0
41.001000
43.899000
43.90001unknown tephra 20
43.901000
49.999000
50.000010
50.001000
52.999000
53.000010
53.001000
55.999000
56.000010
56.001000
57.999000
58.000010
58.001000
59.999000
60.00001Leucite tephra0
60.001000
79.999000
80.000010
80.001000
84.999000
85.000010
85.001000
89.999000
90.000001
90.001000
103.999000
104.000010
104.001000
105.999000
106.0001Dümpelmaar tephra00
106.001000
150.999000
151.0001Glees tephra00
151.001000
151.999000
152.000010
152.001000
153.499000
153.500001
153.501000
174.999000
175.000010
175.001000
175.999000
176.000001
176.001000
180.999000
181.000010
181.001000
182.999000
183.000010
183.001000
184.999000
185.000010
185.001000
214.999000
215.0001Hüttenberg tephra00
215.001000
219.999000
220.000010
220.001000