10.5281/zenodo.3866267
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Abbott, Peter
Peter
Abbott
0000-0002-6347-9499
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Bonadonna, Costanza
Costanza
Bonadonna
0000-0002-2368-2193
Universite de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland
Bursik, Marcus
Marcus
Bursik
0000-0002-9312-5202
SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Cashman, Katherine
Katherine
Cashman
0000-0001-9312-8377
University of Bristol, Bristol UK
Davies, Siwan
Siwan
Davies
0000-0003-0999-7233
Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Jensen, Britta
Britta
Jensen
0000-0001-9134-7170
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Kuehn, Stephen
Stephen
Kuehn
0000-0002-2918-980X
Concord University, WV, USA
Kurbatov, Andrei
Andrei
Kurbatov
0000-0002-9819-9251
University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Lane, Christine
Christine
Lane
0000-0001-9206-3903
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Plunkett, Gill
Gill
Plunkett
0000-0003-1014-3454
Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Smith, Victoria
Victoria
Smith
0000-0003-0878-5060
University of Oxford, UK
Thomlinson, Emma
Emma
Thomlinson
0000-0002-0646-6640
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Thordarsson, Thor
Thor
Thordarsson
0000-0003-4011-7185
University of Iceland,Reykjavík, Iceland
Walker, J. Douglas
J. Douglas
Walker
0000-0002-3706-2729
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA, USA
Wallace, Kristi
Kristi
Wallace
0000-0002-0962-048X
US Geological Survey, Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, USA
Best practice templates for tephra collection, analysis, and correlation
Zenodo
2020
tephra, templates
2020-05-30
eng
10.5281/zenodo.3866266
1.0.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Tephra is a unique volcanic product that has played an unparalleled role in the understanding of past eruptions, long-term behavior of volcanoes, effects of volcanism on climate and the environment. It provides spatially widespread, extremely high-resolution geologic time markers.
We present comprehensive tephra domain-specific improvements in the data gathering framework, consisting of standardized field data collection, laboratory analysis, and correlation recommendations developed as templates. This new approach will facilitate better tephra documentation and parametrization, increased and improved communication, and more effective data sharing among diverse and to some degree disconnected scholarly communities. We hope that this will result in a synergism that benefits all researchers who work with tephra. This new standardized framework is critical to unlocking future advances that are emerging in tephrochronology, to more completely characterize eruptions and tephra transport, and to exploring the nature of potentially global-scale time-stratigraphic markers. For paleoclimatology, archeology, societal volcanic risk assessment, and volcanogenic environmental impact research, the framework will provide tools for consistent evaluation of tephra deposits on a global scale and across scientific disciplines.