Hekla: Eruptive History, H3 Tephra Entry

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• date assertion Hekla 3 Eruption — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes · H3 eruptive entry
• claim A VEI 5 eruption produced the H3 tephra around 1100 ±50 BCE.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: A VEI 5 eruption produced the H3 tephra around 1100 ±50 BCE.

• event Hekla 3 Eruption
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes · H3 eruptive entry

  Source relationship recorded for Hekla 3 Eruption.

• chronology model Smithsonian GVP Hekla 3 chronology
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides or supports date model

  Supports or discusses the chronology model Smithsonian GVP Hekla 3 chronology.

• claim Hekla 3 Eruption is best dated in this release to 1100 BCE ±50 years.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Hekla 3 Eruption is best dated in this release to 1100 BCE ±50 years.

• claim The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: The current Hekla 3 range of 1100 ±50 BCE is too late to serve as the initiating cause of most palatial destructions conventionally placed around or before 1200 BCE.

• property assignment Hekla 3 Eruption — has research status — Likely Unrelated to the Initial c.1200 BCE Crisis
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  The currently preferred Hekla 3 date is too late to initiate most destructions and political failures clustered around the turn of the twelfth century BCE.

• relationship Hekla 3 Eruption — did not cause — Collapse of the Hittite Central Imperial Administration
  Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: ◈ highConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed story
  supports · supports causal relationship

  The preferred Hekla 3 chronology is too late for the eruption to initiate the Hittite central collapse.

• relationship Hekla 3 Eruption — did not cause — Final Destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos
  Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: ◈ highConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed story
  supports · supports causal relationship

  Even the revised Pylos chronology is generally earlier than or insufficiently aligned with the preferred Hekla 3 date for a primary causal role.

• entity Iceland
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Iceland.

• entity Hekla
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Hekla.

• causal hypothesis Volcanic Forcing as the Main Trigger
  Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed story
  supports · supports model component

  Supports one or more evidential components of Volcanic Forcing as the Main Trigger.

• property Likely Unrelated to the Initial c.1200 BCE Crisis
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Likely Unrelated to the Initial c.1200 BCE Crisis.

• relationship Hekla 3 Eruption — affected — Hekla
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Hekla 3 Eruption directly affected Hekla in this reconstruction.

• relationship Hekla — source volcano of — Hekla 3 Eruption
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Hekla is the source volcano for the Hekla 3 eruption.

• relationship Hekla 3 Eruption — occurred in — Iceland
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Hekla 3 Eruption is geographically assigned to Iceland.

• relationship Hekla 3 Eruption — occurred in — Hekla
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Hekla 3 Eruption is geographically assigned to Hekla.

• relationship Hekla — located in — Iceland
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Hekla is located in or geographically associated with Iceland.