Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit

Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit Eric Skoglund Examensarbete grundnivå Kvartärgeologi, 15 hp KG 6 2012

Förord Denna uppsats utgör Eric Skoglunds examensarbete i Kvartärgeologi på grundnivå vid Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi, Stockholms universitet. Examensarbetet omfattar 15 högskolepoäng (ca 10 veckors heltidsstudier). Handledare har varit Stefan Wastegård, Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi, Stockholms universitet. Examinator för examensarbetet har varit Karin Holmgren, Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi, Stockholms universitet. Författaren är ensam ansvarig för uppsatsens innehåll. Stockholm, den 5 juni 2012 Lars-Ove Westerberg Studierektor

Abstract Two eruptions from Icelandic volcanoes have in the last years caused widespread dispersal of volcanic ash in the atmosphere. The transportation of tephra from Iceland to mainland Europe is not an uncommon event and it can cause large disruptions to society. In this thesis I present the ndings of a tephrochronological study of recent sediment from a bog called Trolls mosse in southern Sweden. The results show the presence of recent tephra from what is most likely the Grímsvötn eruption in May 2011, but geochemical analysis of the tephra could not conrm the exact origin of it, and a possibility that the Eyafjallajökull eruption also has contributed exists. By correlating atmospheric data about the location of the ash clouds produced during the eruptions and tephrochronological studies of where tephra fallout has occurred could improve our understanding of tephra fallout dynamics and could help understand complex fallout patterns for past eruptions.

Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.1 Introduction.................................. 2 1.2 Eyjafjallajökull eruption........................... 4 1.3 Grímsvötn eruption.............................. 5 2 Methods 5 2.1 Sampling.................................... 5 2.2 Literature review............................... 5 2.3 Tephra Extraction.............................. 5 2.3.1 Extraction for geochemical analysis................. 6 2.4 Humication analysis............................. 6 2.5 Age model................................... 7 2.6 Geochemical analysis............................. 7 3 Results 8 3.1 Humication Analysis............................ 8 3.2 Tephra..................................... 8 3.2.1 Geochemical Analysis......................... 9 3.3 Literature review............................... 9 4 Discussion 10 4.1 Humication.................................. 10 4.2 Tephra..................................... 12 5 Conclusions 13 1

Eric Skoglund Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction Tephrochronology is a method for dating and correlating geological and environmental sequences using tephra layers. Tephra (Greek meaning ash) is any unconsolidated pyroclastic material from volcanic eruptions, ranging from tiny ash particles to larger masses. The power of dating and linking sequences with tephra is that is is deposited instantaneously when compared to geological time-scales, so that a tephra layer found in two dierent places will always have the same age. In later years what has come to be known as cryptotephrachronology has become increasingly important to tephrochronological studies, cryptotephra is any tephra concentration that is not visible to the naked eye. The advent of better methods for extracting tephra has made cryptotephra studies an important tool for extending the geographical limits of known eruptions. Two eruptions from Icelandic volcanoes (Eyjafjalljökull 2010 and Grímsvötn 2011) have in the last two years caused widespread atmospheric dispersal of volcanic ash over Europe. Both eruptions caused disruptions in air travel and the Eyjafjallajökull eruption caused a several days ight ban over parts of Europe. Forecasts made by the UK Met Oce Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, tasked with providing models of the movement of ash particles in the atmosphere, indicate that both eruptions produced ash clouds that covered large areas of northern Europe including Sweden. Pollen counts from the Swedish Natural history museum (NRM), Stocholm and the University of Gothenburg also show that ash reached Sweden during the Grímsvötn eruption (Kübler, Dahl pers.comm). Eruptions producing ash fallout over northern Europe are not uncommon. Wastegård and Davies (2009) outline 18 tephra horizons during the last 1000 years that are from Iceland, Jan Mayen and of unknown origin. Swindles et al. (2011) also show that over the last 7000 years tephra have regularly been transported to northern Europe. Table 1.1 shows the distal tephra layers found in Europe over the last ca. 12 000 years prior to 2010. The aim of this thesis are: To look for tephra from Eyjafjallajökull and/or Grímsvötn in a Swedish peat deposit. To examine the evidence for the extent of the ash clouds over Europe. To search for other historical tephra. The study site, called Trolls mosse, is located in southern Sweden (57 40'25 N, 14 29'45 E). During the Grímsvötn eruption in 2011 high concentrations of glass particles, presum- 2

Table 1.1: Table showing distal tephra layers in Europe during the last 12 000 years. The list is only complete for the last 1000 years. Layer name Age Source volcano Location Reference Hekla-1947 1947 Hekla Central and N. Ireland, S Finland A Grímsvötn-1903 1903 Grímsvötn Svalbard A Askja-1875 1875 Askja Norway and Sweden A,B Hekla-1845 1845 Hekla Faroe Islands, Orkney A Laki-1783 1783 Laki Ireland A PMG-5 1600 Jan Mayen Ireland A QUB-384 1650-1750 Katla(?) N. Norway A SLU-5 1600-1700? Ireland A Hekla-1510 1510 Hekla Scotland, Ireland A Loigh Portain-B 1510 Hekla(?) Scotland A Veiðviötn 1477 Veiðviötn W. Ireland A MOR-T2 1400 Jan Mayen W. Ireland, Sweden A Öraefajökull 1362 Öraefajökull Ireland, N. Norway A,B GB4-50 1250? N. Ireland A Hekla-1158 (GB4-57) 1158 Hekla N. Ireland, N. Norway A BGMT-1 1120? Scotland A Hekla-1104 1104 Hekla Ireland, N. Norway A MOR-T4 1000? W. Ireland A Eldgjá 934 Katla Greenland C Settlement Layer 870 Veiðviötn and Torfajökull Faroe Is. Greenland, Norway C Glen Garry 2176 BP? Scotland, England, Germany C Hekla 3 3000 BP Hekla Sweden, Germany C Kebister/Hekla S 3720 BP Hekla Sweden, Faroe Is., Germany, Shetland Is. C Hekla 4 4260 BP Hekla Sweden, Norway, Faroe Is. Orkney Is., Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Estonia C Lairg-B 6675 BP Torfajökull Ireland, Scotland, Germany C Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit Hekla 5/Lairg-A 6735 BP Hekla Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Norway C Saksunarvatn Ash 10347 ± 45 yr b2k Grímsvötn Shetland Is., Orkney Is., Faroe Is. Norway, Germany C Askja 10820 ± 250 Askja Sweden, Norway, Ireland C Vedde Ash 12171 ± 57 yr b2k Katla Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Netherlands, Germany References: A:(Wastegård and Davies, 2009), B:(Wastegård, 2005), C:(Davies et al., 2010) supporting information 3

Eric Skoglund Figure 1.1: VAAC simulations of ash cloud position left: Eyjafjallajökull 2010/04/15 18.00 UTC right: Grímsvötn 2011/05/25 00.00 UTC, used with permission from the UK Met Oce. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government License v1.0. ably volcanic ash were observed in pollen slides from the nearby town Nässjö, simulations by the VAAC also sugests that ash was present in the atmosphere over the area 1.1. If these tephra are found they will form the rst step into mapping out the extent of the tephra fallout from these two eruptions. Mapping out the fallout pattern is important because we can then couple that with observations of the ash cloud to better understand tephra fallout dynamics. There are also two historical tephra layers that can possibly be found in the cores. In 1947 Hekla erupted and tephra has been observed in both the British Islands and southern Finland (Davies et al., 2010) making tephra fallout over Sweden a possibility. The 1875 Askja eruption have been found over large parts of central Sweden (Wastegård, 2005) but has not been observed this far south. As a part of this study I have also made a literature review of the published material to create a map of were the ash clouds were observed in Europe. This can later be compared with the extent of other historical tephras to put these two eruptions into a larger context. 1.2 Eyjafjallajökull eruption Eyjafjallajökull is a stratovolcano at about 1666 m above sea level. It is located at the southern coast of Iceland. In historic time only two other eruptions from Eyjafjallajökull are known in 1613 and 1821, the later lasting for two years (Larsen et al., 1999). Tephra from these eruptions are not believed to have reached overseas. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption can be divided in two distinct phases. The rst phase began on March 20. This eruption produced lava ows and a small ash plume and ended on April 12. Two days later Eyjafjallajökull started to erupt again. This phase was more explosive and started to produce a plume that eventually reached about 10 km (Flentje et al., 2010) and tephra from this phase was transported by winds and reached Europe. The total ash volume estimated to have been ejected into the atmosphere is 270 million m 3 (Dellino et al., 2012). The eruption had subdued by June 15 and reports from the Icelandic meteorological oce show that the eruption ended by June 23. 4

1.3 Grímsvötn eruption Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit Grímsvötn is a caldera volcano that lies 1722 m above sea level under the Vatnajökull ice-cap. In historical time Grímsvötn has been one of Icelands most active volcanoes with some 64 conrmed eruptions since AD 1200 (Thordarson and Larsen, 2007). Grímsvötn started to erupt on May 21, 2011. This eruption was larger but much shorter than the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and produced an eruption plume reaching 17 km in height(institute of Earth Science, University of Iceland, 2011). Simulations made by the VAAC suggest that the ash cloud traveled as far as northern Canada and parts of Russia, but not as far south as Eyjafjallajökull. The eruption ocially ended on May 28. The ash cloud that the eruption produced is believed to have been observed in both Norway, Sweden and Finland during 24-25 of May (Kerminen et al., 2011) and in pollen counts in Sweden (Kübler, Dahl pers.comm). Chapter 2 Methods 2.1 Sampling Three cores where taken at Trolls mosse (TM-01: 0-44.5 cm, TM-02: 0-88.4 cm, TM- 03: 50-144 cm) 2.1. Two cores were acquired with a Russian peat corer and one core was taken using a PVC tube pressed into the peat hummock, these cores were placed in PVC-pipes and then wrapped in plastic. Due to the patchy nature of tephra fallout (e.g. Bergman et al., 2004) a surface sample was also taken from the surrounding area. 2.2 Literature review To compile the relevant literature two main databases were used: Google Scholar and Web of Science. Searches were also performed using individual journals own search implementation. Keywords used were: Eyjafjallajokull, Grimsvotn, tephra fallout, ash cloud and constraining searches to only the years 2010-2012. Only publications that measured, or in some way, provided physical proof of the ash clouds were included. 2.3 Tephra Extraction The cores were sampled every 5 cm and for TM-01 the rst 10 cm were sampled every centimeters. Three surface samples from TM-01 were also acquired. These sampled were then heated over night in a oven at 550 C to remove organic material. The samples were then transferred to 25 ml plastic bottles lled with 10% HCl for 1 hour in order to clean the samples of leftover organic material. After that the samples were centrifuged three times. First in HCl and then in distilled water. Samples were then transferred to glass 5

Eric Skoglund Figure 2.1: Left: Method used to acquire the shallow surface core TM-01, pressing down a PVC-pipe into the pear hummock and then cutting away the peat outside the core. Top right: Core TM-01. Bottom right: Core TM-02 acquired with a Russian peat corer. slides and encased in resin. For three surface samples one Lycospodium tablet containing 18583 spores were added to each sample. This was in order to calculate the tephra shard density. 2.3.1 Extraction for geochemical analysis The method used for extracting tephra for geochemical analysis di ers from the process of extracting them for mircoscopic analysis. This is because the method used above would cause a change in the geochemical signature of the tephra. were placed in asks and then 90% First samples of the peat sulfuric acid (H2 SO4 )was poured in the ask until it covered the samples. This was then boiled until the organic matter in the samples had been dissolved, resulting in a clear liquid, during this drops of concentrated nitric acid (HN O3 ) was added. The samples where then centrifuged four times, one time in the acid solution and three times in disstiled water. 2.4 Humi cation analysis A humi cation analysis was performed on cores TM-02 and TM-03 (the sampling of TM03 began at 88 cm were TM-02 ended). The hum cation analysis was done in order to investigate wether climate data could be obtained from the core. The cores were sampled with 8 cm intervals and each sample was 1 cm in length. The method used was a modi ed version of Borgmark (2005) developed by Päivi Kaislahti Tillman in 2008. First the samples were homogenized with a pestle and mortar, 50µg of each sample was weighed and placed in 50 ml tubes. 25 ml of 8%N aoh solution was added to the tubes and placed in a 95 C water bath for one hour. Two hours after the water bath the samples were 6

Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit centrifuged and ltered before they were analyzed with a photospectrometer. In order to reduce the memory eect in the machine distilled water was run through the machine after each sample. 2.5 Age model No dating was performed on the cores so in order to put the results in a meaningful context a age model was constructed. Using data from an previous study that included Trolls mosse by Brännvall et al. (1997) a regression curve was tted to the data (Fig. 2.2). A cubic t provided the best model for the data. One characteristic of this age model will be that age 0 is 1997 when the dating was done (meaning that the function below will, when given x = 0 provide y 15). From this a function expressing the relation between age and depth was given to be: y = 1.2175e 5 x 3 + 0.019712 x 2 + 6.5636 x + 15.011. Where x = depth (cm) and y = 14 C Age. The 14 C ages where then converted to calendar ages (AD) with the CalPal online (http://www.calpal-online.de) tool. It should be noted that this function is only used to provide a crude reference for how the humication have varied over time in this bog. Depth (cm) 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Age Depth model for Trolls mosse Branvall et al Cubic Fit 500 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 14 C Age Figure 2.2: Age-depth model for the three cores taken at Trolls mosse. The model is based on dating from Brännvall et al. (1997) from a core taken from the northern part of the same bog (Bindler, pers comm., 2011). This model should not be used for absolute dating depths in the bog but can be used to put results from the bog into a historical context. 2.6 Geochemical analysis The geochemical analysis was performed at the Department of Geological Sciences at Stockholm University. The analysis was made using a XL30 ESEM-FEG electron mi- 7

Eric Skoglund croscope outtted with a Oxford EDS INCA for geochemical analysis. The machine was setup to be at low-vaccum (0.3 mb) and the detector was a back-scatter detector. Chapter 3 Results 3.1 Humication Analysis Raw absorption values are presented for the humication analysis in Fig 3.1, note also that in this graph the conversion from depth to ages have not been done. One value for the last run was discarded due to the tube that takes in the sample went above the liquid and started to pump in air for about half of the sampling time. All other samples were inside the error margin of the machine. 0 20 Individual Runs Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 0 20 Mean value of the runs Mean 40 40 Depth (cm) 60 80 60 80 100 100 120 120 140 0.25 0.37 0.5 0.62 0.75 Absorbance 140 0.25 0.37 0.5 0.62 0.75 Absorbance Figure 3.1: depth Results for the humication analysis showing the absorbance plotted versus the 3.2 Tephra Tephra was only found in the uppermost layer where the Grímsvötn and Eyjafjallajökull could be expected to be found, no other depths where historical tephras could be expected to be found were present in the peat bog. The tephra shard density for the three sufrace samples is presented in table 3.1. Pictures of some of the tephra shards that were found was also acquired and is seen in gure 3.2. 8

Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit Tephra shard count for the surface samples from core TM-01 Table 3.1: 3.2.1 ID Tephra Count 3 Volume (cm ) 3 Shard Density (Shards/cm ) YP-01 98 2.1 46 YP-02 84 2.3 36 YP-03 102 3.6 39 Geochemical Analysis The results of the geochemical analysis are shown in gure 3.2.1. plotted against N a 2 O + K2 O. Here the SiO2 is The plot also includes values for chemical compositions for both Eyjafjallajökull and Grímsvötn eruptions in 2010 and 2011, respectivly (Óskarsson (2010),Óskarsson and Sverrisdottír (2011)). (a) (b) Two tephras found in sample TM-YP3, these show the two largest tephra particles found in the samples. Most were signi cantly smaller, between 1-5 µm Figure 3.2: 3.3 Literature review The results from the literature review can bee seen in Fig. 3.3. Three di erent papers that provided data on where the ash cloud had been observed were included in the results. Note that there are more papers that also give data on where the Eyjafjallajökull ash cloud was observed that overlapped with (Schumann et al., 2011) and were therefore redundant to include. 9

Eric Skoglund 8 7 TM YP1 TM YP2 TM YP3 Eyjafjallajokull 2010 Grimsvotn 2011 6 Na2O + K2O 5 4 3 2 45 50 55 60 65 SiO2 Figure 3.3: Geochemical analysis for three tephra shards in the peat from Trolls mosse. The shards were measured multiple times in order to get a better result but as can be seen there is still a large spread of the values. Also included in the plot is the geochemical signal for both the Eyjafjallajökull and Grímsvötn eruptions. References: Grímsvötn: Óskarsson and Sverrisdottír (2011), Eyjafjallajökull: Óskarsson (2010). Chapter 4 Discussion 4.1 Humication Humication can be used in order to reconstruct shifts in bog surface wetness and can therefore be used to infer changes in humidity (Blackford and Chambers, 1995). Higher humication is induced by drier climate, higher absorption means a higher humication rate. Looking at gure 4.1 we see that the biggest shift occurs at around 1200 AD, this would correspond with the Medieval climate anomaly (MCA) and might conrm that the age model is usable also for the cores taken in this study. 10

Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit -7 0 7 14 21 28-7 0 7 14 21 28 70 63 56 56 63 70 77-14 77-21 Location of volcanoes 49 49 Legend Eyafjallajökull observations -21-14 42 42 Grímsvötn observations Locations of where the ash clouds have been measured over Europe. References: Schumann et al. 2011, Rossini et al. 2012, Tesche et al. 2012 Figure 3.4: Humification Cores: TM 02 and TM 03 Absorbance 0.75 0.62 0.5 0.37 0.25 1980 1800 1600 1400 1200 Calendar Age (AD) 1000 800 Absorbance values showing the humi cation in historical time, the shifts are interpreted as shifts in wetness in the bog. Higher absorbance values are attributed to a drier/warmer period. The highest values occur around 1200 AD and are here thought to be a result of the medieval climate anomaly. Figure 4.1: 11

Eric Skoglund 4.2 Tephra As noted in the results, the three surface samples from the core did contain tephra. The question is whether the tephra originated from the Grímsvötn or Eyjafjallajökull eruption. The geochemical analysis on the tephra turned out to be too ambiguous to give any conclusive answer to where the tephra originated. Firstly the number of tephra shards analysed would have to be larger, there were only four shards analysed and as can be seen in gure 3.2.1 there is large spread between dierent measurements of the same shard. There is some indication in the data that tephra from both the Eyjafjallajökull and Grímsvötn tephra is present in the peat, one shard with quite high SiO 2 values and one with a bit lower values. But with so few shards analysed and the large margin of error that the EDS analysis provides it is hard to conclusivly say where the tephra originated. What we can say is that during the Grímsvötn eruption there were observations in pollen traps of what is presumed to be tephra shards. There were also particle measurements that showed that the air particle mass increased signicantly during the time of the eruption ((Tesche et al., 2012)). All of this lead to the conclusion that most of the particles found in the sediment probably comes from Grímsvötn. But there is also the possibility that some small particles from Eyjafjallajökull also are present. As seen in table 3.2.1 the tephra shard count was very low. Tephra fallout is aected by wind patterns and precipitation (Davies et al., 2010), combining unfavorable weather and the fact that most particles found were also small (ranging from 1-25 µm) which would make them more likely to be transported further by winds could explain why there were so few particles. During both eruptions, but most notably during Eyjafjallajökull, there were quite a few in situ measurements showing the ash clouds impact on the air quality over Europe (e.g Schumann et al. 2011, Rossini et al. 2012, Colette et al. 2011). Figure 4.2: Image from a pollen sample taken in Nässjö during the Grimsvötn eruption, the small transparent object are believed to be tephra shards. 12

Recent Icelandic tephra in a Swedish Peat Deposit Figure 3.3 shows where those measurements were done, during the time of writing the published data shows that the Grímsvötn ash cloud mainly stayed in the northern parts of Europe and that the Eyjafjallajökull cloud was transported further south even reaching parts of Italy (Rossini et al., 2012) but not reaching as far east. But this does not give the complete picture of where ash has been observed, for example the British Geological Survey collected, with the help of the public, glass shards during the Grímsvötn eruption (British Geological Survey, 2011), which indicates that the published data underestimates the spread of the ash. By compiling atmospheric measurements and secondary sources such as news reports a better picture of where the ash clouds reached could be obtained. Coupling that picture with studies such as this one to determine where tephra fallout has occurred over Europe. This would provide a good insight into the complex nature of tephra fallout dynamics and create a better understanding of the spread of past eruptions. Both Eyjafjallajökull and Grímsvötn can be considered medium sized eruptions indicated by the relativly low amounts of and small sizes of the tephra. Chapter 5 Conclusions In this thesis I have shown the presence of recent tephra in a bog in southern Sweden. Geochemical analysis could not determine whether the tephra was from Grímsvötn or Eyjafjallajökull, but other data show a large number of presumably tephra shards over the nearby area during the Grímsvötn eruption in May 2011 indicating that most of the shards originated from this eruption. I show that it is possible to do a geochemical analysis of very small particles but that it would take a large amounts of measurements in order to determine the origin of tephra. Further research into the tephra fallout pattern of both eruptions is needed in order to gain insight into tephra fallout dynamics and help create better models and predictions for tephra fallout. Acknowledgments I would like to thank my supervisor Stefan Wastegård for his help and guidance, and for peaking my interest in the subject almost one year ago. I would also like to thank Karin Holmgren for taking on the examination for this thesis. Both Krister Jansson and Maria Damberg deserves a thanks for helping out with some administrative troubles. 13

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