This standardized framework promotes consistent documentation and archiving, fosters interdisciplinary communication, and improves effectiveness of data sharing among diverse communities of researchers.īecause of tephra’s critical role in numerous fields and the diversity of data types involved in its study, standardization of practices and reporting standards, both within and among disciplines, would greatly facilitate mutual understanding, enable the introduction of new research frontiers, and allow for reusability of results even by practitioners outside of the scholarly domain in which the data were originally gathered and results reported. They are system independent and usable for template, tool, and database development. These are organized as tabulated lists of key metadata with their definition and purpose. Recommendations include standardized field and laboratory data collection, reporting and correlation guidance. We present comprehensive recommendations for tephra data gathering and reporting that were developed by the tephra science community to guide future investigators and to ensure that sufficient data are gathered for interoperability. Nonetheless, the study of tephra deposits is challenged by a lack of standardization that inhibits data integration across geographic regions and disciplines. Tephra deposits also provide spatially widespread, high-resolution time-stratigraphic markers across a range of sedimentary settings and thus are used in numerous disciplines (e.g., volcanology, climate science, archaeology).
Tephra is a unique volcanic product with an unparalleled role in understanding past eruptions, long-term behavior of volcanoes, and the effects of volcanism on climate and the environment.
Scientific Data volume 9, Article number: 447 ( 2022) Community established best practice recommendations for tephra studies-from collection through analysis
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