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Jökull - 01.12.1988, Side 89

Jökull - 01.12.1988, Side 89
the Videy island offReykjavík soil sections in bogs have a quite even rate of soil thickening. Two age estimates were done by comparing soil thicknesses between the Medieval tephra and the Landnám and Katla 1485 layers, respectively. An average age obtained is 1199 which is in reasonably good agreement with the historical records of 1226. Our results suggest the year 1226 as the age for the Medieval tephra layer. AGE OF A TURF WALL AT THE OLD KRÍSUVÍK FARM A section was made across one of the turf walls (Fig. 6) which is partly covered by the Ögmundar- hraun lava flow. The wall is older than 900 AD because the Landnám tephra layer is not found beneath the wall but traces of it were found in a dugout alongside it. AGE OF THE ÖGMUNDARHRA UN LAVA FLOW Two 14 C datings have been done on charcoal (from fire site) from the ruins of the old Krísuvík farm (Einarsson, pers. comm.) which was overrun by the Ögmundarhraun lava flow. The datings give a mean age of 970 years BP and if corrected accord- ing to the correction diagram of Stuiver and Becker (1986) the age is 1027 AD (Fig. 4). Jónsson (1982) dated three charcoal samples from the lower surfaces of the Ögmundarhraun flow giving a mean age of 923 BP. Correction by the Stuiver and Becker diagram gives five dates 1044, 1096, 1122, 1141 and 1156 (Fig. 4). This is due to an irregular content of 14C in the atmosphere at that time. Einarsson’s dat- ings give a slightly higher age as can be expected. He proposed that the samples could be bumt drift- wood or peat. A few soil sections were measured at the margins of the Ögmundarhaun lava flow and near the craters where scoria is preserved in soil left uncovered by the flow. The Settlement layer is usually about 2-7 cm below the flow but the Medieval layer is 0-4 cm above it (Fig. 3). The Ögmundarhraun flow is thus closer to the Medieval layer than the Landnám layer. The old annals (Storm, 1888) mention two er- uptions in Trölladyngjur which is a mountain in the centre of the Reykjanes peninsula and the Ogmund- arhaun crater row lies just east of it. The reference is made to eruptions in the years 1151 and 1188. The annals also mention a strong earthquake in the year 1151. This is to be expected because faults and fractures related to the South Iceland Seismic Zone have been traced west along the Reykjanes peninsula. We suggest that the Ögmundarhraun lava flow was erupted in the year 1151. This agrees reasonably well with the tephrochronology and the records of the old annals. JÖKULL, No. 38, 1988 87
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