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Sample: UA1602-P2

Sample ID: UA1602-P2 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: UA1602
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Volcano:
Possible source: Aniakchak
Eruption: Aniakchak CFE II
Collector: Ager, T. A.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Final unit:
Text Description: Bubble-walled and tricuspate shards, some blocky glass and pumice, brown glass present. Major and minor minerals: palgioclase, orthopyroxene, magnetite. Trace minerals: clinopyroxene, apatite, amphibole, ilmenite. Rhyolite component is crystal poor.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy, Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska, 2012

Kaufman, D.S., Jensen, B.J.L., Reyes, A.V., Schiff, C.J., Froese, D.G., and Pearce, N.J.G., 2012, Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy, Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 27, n. 4, p. 344-359, doi:10.1002/jqs.1552 .

[2] Late Pleistocene and Holocene tephrostratigraphy of interior Alaska and Yukon: Key beds and chronologies over the past 30,000 years, 2016

Davies, L. J., Jensen, B. J., Froese, D. G., and Wallace, K. L., 2016, Late Pleistocene and Holocene tephrostratigraphy of interior Alaska and Yukon: Key beds and chronologies over the past 30,000 years: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 146, p. 28-53.

[3] Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska, 2016

Graham, R.W., Belmecheri, S., Choy, K., Culleton, B.J., Davies, L.J., Froese, D., Heintzman, P.D., Hritz, C., Kapp, J.D., Newsom, L.A., and Rawcliffe, R., 2016, Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 113, n. 33, p. 9310-9314.

[4] Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA, 2017

Monteath, A.J., van Hardenbroek, M., Davies, L.J., Froese, D.G., Langdon, P.G., Xu, X., and Edwards, M.E., 2017, Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA: Quaternary Research, v. 88, p. 1-10.