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Sample: A1340-7

Sample ID: A1340-7 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: DYE-3
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source: Aniakchak
Eruption: Aniakchak CFE II
Collector: Coulter, S. E.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Final unit:
Text Description: From south Greenland Dye 3 core. Ice samples of 2.5 cm along the core were taken over the depth range 736.325 to 736.800 m; substantial number of microtephra particles in the size range of 1 to 5 microns, with very few particles up to 10 microns. The total concentration of microparticles, some 0.1 mg/kg of ice, is much too small to give rise to a visible layer in the ice.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Identification of Aniakchak (Alaska) tephra in Greenland ice core challenges the 1645 BC date for Minoan eruption of Santorini, 2004

Pearce, N.J.G., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Eastwood, W.J., and Perkins, W.T., 2004, Identification of Aniakchak (Alaska) tephra in Greenland ice core challenges the 1645 BC date for Minoan eruption of Santorini: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems - G3, v. 5, n. 3, unpaged.

[2] Thera eruption date 1645 BC confirmed by new ice core data?, 2003

Hammer, C.U., Kurat, G., Hoppe, P., Grum, W., and Clausen, H.B., 2003, Thera eruption date 1645 BC confirmed by new ice core data?: paper presented at SCIEM 2000-EuroConference, Vienna.

[3] Comment on “A synchronized dating of three Greenland ice cores throughout the Holocene” by B. M. Vinther et al.: no Minoan tephra in the 1642 B.C. layer of the GRIP ice core, 2008

Denton, J.S., Pearce, N.J.G., 2008, Comment on "A synchronized dating of three Greenland ice cores throughout the Holocene" by B. M. Vinther et al.: no Minoan tephra in the 1642 B.C. layer of the GRIP ice core: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 113, 7 p., D04303.