FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A 6.2 Ma‐Long Record of Major Explosive Eruptions From the NW Pacific Volcanic Arcs Based on the Offshore Tephra Sequences on the Northern Tip of the Emperor Seamount Chain BT AF Ponomareva, V. V. Portnyagin, M. V. Bubenshchikova, N. V. Zelenin, E. A. Derkachev, A. N. Jicha, B. Gorbarenko, S. A. Cook, E. Garbe‐Schönberg, D. Hoernle, K. AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:6;7:5;8:7;9:8,9;10:2,8; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:; C1 Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Petropavlovsk‐Kamchatsky, Russia GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel Kiel ,Germany Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Moscow ,Russia Geological Institute Moscow, Russia V.I. Il'ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute Vladivostok, Russia Department of Geoscience University of Wisconsin Madison Madison WI ,USA Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth (PICE) Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen Copenhagen ,Denmark Kiel University Kiel, Germany Department of Physics and Earth Sciences Jacobs University Bremen Bremen ,Germany C2 INST VOLCANOLOGY SEISMOLOGY, RUSSIA IFM GEOMAR, GERMANY PP SHIRSHOV OCEANOL INST, RUSSIA GEOLOGICAL INST, RUSSIA PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INST, RUSSIA UNIV WISCONSIN, USA UNIV COPENHAGEN, DENMARK UNIV KIEL, GERMANY UNIV BREMEN, GERMANY IN DOAJ IF 3.5 TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106389.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106392.docx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106393.txt https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106394.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106395.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106396.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106397.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106398.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106399.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00863/97477/106400.xlsx LA English DT Article CR MD 122 / WEPAMA BO Marion Dufresne AB We present a continuous ∼6.2 Ma long record of explosive activity from the Northwest Pacific volcanic arcs based on a composite tephra sequence derived from Ocean Drilling Program Sites 882A and 884B, and core MD01‐2416 on the Detroit Seamount. Geochemical fingerprinting of tephra glass using major and trace element analyses and correlations of tephra layers between the three cores allowed the identification of 119 unique tephras, suggesting eruptions of magnitude (M) of 5.8–7.8. Age estimates for all the identified eruptions were obtained with the help of published and further refined age models for the studied cores, direct 40Ar/39Ar dating of four ash layers, and Bayesian age modeling. The glass compositions vary from low‐ to high‐K2O basaltic andesite to rhyolite and exhibit typical subduction‐related affinity. The majority of the tephras originated from Kamchatka, only a few tephras—from the neighboring Kuril and Aleutian arcs. The glass compositions revealed no temporal trends but made it possible to identify their source volcanic zones in Kamchatka and, in some cases, to determine their source eruptive centers. Our data indicates episodes of explosive activity recorded in the Detroit tephra sequence at ∼6,200, 5,600–5,000, 4,300–3,700 ka, and almost continuous activity since ∼3,000 ka. Within the latter episode, the most active intervals can be identified at 1,700–1,600, 1,150–1,050, and 600–50 ka. Geochemically fingerprinted and dated Detroit tephra sequence form a framework for dating and correlating diverse paleoenvironmental archives across the Northwest Pacific and for studies of geochemical evolution of the adjacent volcanic arcs. PY 2023 PD DEC SO Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems SN 1525-2027 PU American Geophysical Union (AGU) VL 24 IS 12 UT 001118076400001 DI 10.1029/2023GC011126 ID 97477 ER EF