V24B:
Exploiting the Potential of Tephra in Paleoenvironmental Records I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Paul Hughes, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom and Karen Fontijn, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Primary Conveners:  David M Pyle, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Paul Hughes, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Karen Fontijn, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Maarten E Van Daele, Ghent University, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent, Belgium
OSPA Liaisons:  Maarten E Van Daele, Ghent University, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent, Belgium

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
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
Siwan Manon Davies1, Adam J Griggs1, Peter Michael Abbott1, Anna J Bourne1, Catriona S Purcell2, Ian R Hall3 and James David Scourse2, (1)Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (2)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (3)Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
4:15 PM
 
Using tephra layers as absolute and relative chronological markers: an example from Lake Suigetsu, Japan
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
4:30 PM
 
Exceptionally Long Distance Transport of Volcanic Ash: Implications for Stratigraphy, Hazards and the Sourcing of Distal Tephra Deposits
Britta J.L. Jensen, University of Alberta, 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 Hughes, University of Southampton, Southampton, 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
4:45 PM
 
The widespread ~10ka Saksunarvatn tephra is not a product single eruption
Thor Thordarson, University of Iceland, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland
5:00 PM
 
Methods for the Identification of the Three Major Eruptions from the Toba Complex, Indonesia
Emma Gatti, University of Cambridge, Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Nicholas J Pearce, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, John Westgate, University of Toronto, Geology, Toronto, ON, Canada, Igor M Villa, Universitat Bern, 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, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3, United Kingdom
5:15 PM
 
Chemical Fingerprinting of Explosive Eruptions from Mocho-Choshuenco Volcano, Chile
Harriet Louise Rawson1, José Antonio Naranjo2, Victoria Smith1, Karen Fontijn1, David M Pyle3, Tamsin A Mather1 and Hugo Moreno-Roa4, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)SERNAGEOMIN, Geología Regional, Santiago, Chile, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago, Chile
5:30 PM
 
Deposition of the 2011 Cordón Caulle Tephra (Chile, 40ºS) in Lake Sediments: Implications for Tephrochronology and Volcanology
Sebastien Bertrand1, Romina Daga2, Robin Bedert1 and Karen Fontijn1,3, (1)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Centro Atómico Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina, (3)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
5:45 PM