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Research article
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18 Jan 2022
Research article |
| 18 Jan 2022
| 18 Jan 2022
No evidence for tephra in Greenland from the historic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE: implications for geochronology and paleoclimatology
Archaeology & Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Michael Sigl
Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Hans F. Schwaiger
Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey, 4230 University Drive, Suite 100, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA
Emma L. Tomlinson
Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Matthew Toohey
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Joseph R. McConnell
Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education, Reno, Nevada 89512, USA
Jonathan R. Pilcher
Archaeology & Palaeoecology, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Takeshi Hasegawa
Department of Earth Sciences, College of Science, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan
Claus Siebe
Department of Volcanology, Institute of Geophysics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, C.P. 04510, Coyoacán, Mexico
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- Impact of subsurface crevassing on the depth–age relationship of high-Alpine ice cores extracted at Col du Dôme between 1994 and 2012 S. Preunkert et al. 10.5194/tc-18-2177-2024
- Constraining sulphur yields of trachytic and phonolitic volcanic eruptions: Tambora, Vesuvius, Laacher See and Campi Flegrei B. Scaillet et al. 10.5802/crgeos.276
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- The 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius: A lesson from the past and the need of a multidisciplinary approach for developments in volcanology D. Doronzo et al. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104072
- High-resolution aerosol data from the top 3.8 kyr of the East Greenland Ice coring Project (EGRIP) ice core T. Erhardt et al. 10.5194/essd-15-5079-2023
- High-frequency climate forcing causes prolonged cold periods in the Holocene E. van Dijk et al. 10.1038/s43247-024-01380-0
- Mid-to Late Holocene East Antarctic ice-core tephrochronology: Implications for reconstructing volcanic eruptions and assessing their climatic impacts over the last 5,500 years P. Abbott et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108544
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- Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism S. Guillet et al. 10.1038/s41586-023-05751-z
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Short summary
We report the identification of volcanic ash associated with a sulfate layer in Greenland ice cores previously thought to have been from the Vesuvius 79 CE eruption and which had been used to confirm the precise dating of the Greenland ice-core chronology. We find that the tephra was probably produced by an eruption in Alaska. We show the importance of verifying sources of volcanic signals in ice cores through ash analysis to avoid errors in dating ice cores and interpreting volcanic impacts.
We report the identification of volcanic ash associated with a sulfate layer in Greenland ice...
