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Askja

record_comment: North Volcanic Zone (NVZ), terminology after Thordarson & Larsen (2007)
site: Askja
country: Iceland
region: NVZ
latitude: 65.029998779297
longitude: -16.75
record: Askja
site_type: Volcano

Data series

Eruptions

series: Eruptions
series_type: Volc_Eruptions

eruption	eruption_type	t	t_sigma	t_source	ref	notes
Askja AD1875	Ultra-Plinian	1875.5	1	Calendar	doi:10.1191/095968399669624108	AD 1875 historical (see Sigvaldason et al. 1992; Larsen et al. 1999)
Askja-S	Ultra-Plinian	-8859.5	240	IntCal04	doi:10.1002/jqs.996	c. 11,050-10,570 cal BP bayesian 14C wiggle-match (Wohlfarth et al. 2006).
NGRIP 1553.85m	Sub-Plinian	-11579.5	1	GICC05	doi:10.1029/2005jd006079	NGRIP GICC05 13580 ± 156 b2k.
Glen Garry	Plinian	-225.5	82	IntCal04	doi:10.1177/0959683607085594	2210-1966 yr cal BP 14C wiggle-match (2 sigma; Barber et al. 2008). The same authors conjecture that this tephra derives from the Askja volcanic system.

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Larsen, G., Dugmore, A. and Newton, A. (1999) Geochemistry of historical-age silicic tephras in Iceland. The Holocene, 9(4), pp.463-471. doi:10.1191/095968399669624108 data publication

Sigvaldason, G. (2002) Volcanic and tectonic processes coinciding with glaciation and crustal rebound: an early Holocene rhyolitic eruption in the Dyngjufjöll volcanic centre and the formation of the Askja caldera, north Iceland. Bulletin of Volcanology, 64(3-4), pp.192-205. doi:10.1007/s00445-002-0204-7 data publication

Thordarson, Thor and Larsen, G. (2007) Volcanism in Iceland in historical time: Volcano types, eruption styles and eruptive history. Journal of Geodynamics, 43(1), pp.118-152. doi:10.1016/j.jog.2006.09.005 data publication

Wohlfarth, B., Blaauw, M., Davies, S.M., Andersson, M., Wastegard, S., Hormes, A. and Possnert, G. (2006) Constraining the age of Lateglacial and early Holocene pollen zones and tephra horizons in southern Sweden with Bayesian probability methods. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21(4), pp.321-334. doi:10.1002/jqs.996 data publication

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