V24B:
Exploiting the Potential of Tephra in Paleoenvironmental Records I

Session ID#: 2369

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Salons 1-3 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Paul Douglas Michael Hughes, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and Karen Fontijn, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Primary Convener:  David M Pyle, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Paul Douglas Michael Hughes, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Karen Fontijn, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Maarten E Van Daele, Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium
OSPA Liaison:  Maarten E Van Daele, Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tephra constraints on Rapid Climate Events (TRACE): precise correlation of marine and ice-core records during the last glacial period in the North Atlantic region (Invited) (21820)
Siwan Manon Davies1, Adam J Griggs2, Peter Michael Abbott3, Anna J Bourne2, Catriona S Purcell4, Ian R Hall5 and James David Scourse6, (1)Swansea University, Cardiff, CF5, United Kingdom, (2)Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (3)Swansea University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (4)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (5)Cardiff University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom, (6)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Using tephra layers as absolute and relative chronological markers: an example from Lake Suigetsu, Japan (Invited) (4130)
Victoria Smith1, Paul G Albert1, Richard Staff1, Darren F Mark2, Christopher Bronk Ramsey1 and Takeshi Nakagawa3, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)SUERC, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, (3)Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan
Exceptionally Long Distance Transport of Volcanic Ash: Implications for Stratigraphy, Hazards and the Sourcing of Distal Tephra Deposits (18351)
Britta J.L. Jensen, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Helen Mackay, University of Southampton, UK, Southampton, United Kingdom, Sean Pyne-O'Donnell, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9, United Kingdom, Gill Plunkett, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Paul Douglas Michael Hughes, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Duane G Froese, University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Robert Booth, Lehigh University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
The widespread ~10ka Saksunarvatn tephra is not a product single eruption (21041)
Thor Thordarson, University of Iceland, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
Methods for the Identification of the Three Major Eruptions from the Toba Complex, Indonesia (Invited) (11201)
Emma Gatti, University of Cambridge, Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Nicholas J G Pearce, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23, United Kingdom, John Westgate, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Igor M Villa, University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, Hema Achyuthan, Anna University Coimbatore Regional Center, Geology, Chennai, India, Jinnappa N Pattan, CSIR National Institute for Oceanography, Goa, India and Clive Oppenheimer, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chemical Fingerprinting of Explosive Eruptions from Mocho-Choshuenco Volcano, Chile (7137)
Harriet Louise Rawson1, José Antonio Naranjo2, Victoria Smith1, Karen Fontijn3, David M Pyle4, Tamsin A Mather4 and Hugo Moreno-Roa5, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)SERNAGEOMIN, Geología Regional, Santiago, Chile, (3)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département Géosciences, Environnement et Société (DGES), Brussels, Belgium, (4)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago, Chile
Deposition of the 2011 Cordón Caulle Tephra (Chile, 40ºS) in Lake Sediments: Implications for Tephrochronology and Volcanology (Invited) (4260)
Sebastien Bertrand1, Romina Daga2, Robin Bedert3 and Karen Fontijn3,4, (1)Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium, (2)Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina, (3)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Source and significance of pumices in tsunami deposits: examples from Tenerife (Canary Islands), Santorini (Greece) and Krakatau (Indonesia) volcanoes. (18245)
Raphael Paris and Francois Nauret, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France