Dataset Information

Leicher, Niklas; ORCID: 0000-0002-3367-5982
Wennrich, Volker
Wombacher, Frank
Lagos, Markus

The dataset comprises the geochemical and chronological information of the tephra layers investigated in the paper presenting the TephATA database (Leicher et al., 2026).

Leicher, N., Wennrich, V., Wombacher, F., Lagos, M., 2026. Tephrostratigraphic and tephrochonological dataset of tephra layers from northern Chile, Version 1.0. Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA). https://doi.org/10.60520/IEDA/114209. Accessed 2026-06-13.

2025-10-30

Leicher, N., Feldmar, V., Quezada Jara, A., Vásquez Illanes, P., Sepúlveda Vásquez, F., Wombacher, F., Lagos, M., Kramm, T., González, G., Kuiper, K., Breitkreuz, C., Sáez, A., Gimeno, D., Cabrera, L., Rodríguez Araneda , I., Wagner, B., Bareth, G., and Wennrich, V., (2026), TephAta – an online collection of tephra data from the Atacama Desert, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 3729–3756.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC-BY-4.0]

Coverage Scope: Regional (Continents, Oceans)
Geographic Location: Atacama Desert, Chile, the Andes, Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes

tephra, volcanic ash, glass, glass geochemical composition, EMPA-WDS, SEM-EDS, LA-ICP-MS, Atacama Desert, Chile, Andes, trace elements, major and minor elements

North: -19.9     South: -27.7     East: -67.5     West: -71

2026-04-23

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