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Sample: WL1-523

Sample ID: WL1-523 [1] [2]
Station ID: WL-1
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Collector: Levy, L. B.
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: 1-cm-thick, dark tephra that underlies the mud with tephra A unit by ~50 cm in each core. Characterized by fine-sand to coarse-silt grain size and position below tephra A. Characterized by platy, brown glass shards that are phenocrystic and microlitic. The glass has conicle and equant vesicles, and shards containing bubble-wall junctions are also present.
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Uninstrumented

500 km
300 mi
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References Cited

[1] Holocene glacier fluctuations, Waskey Lake, northeastern Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska, 2004

Levy, L.B., Kaufman, D.S., and Werner, A., 2004, Holocene glacier fluctuations, Waskey Lake, northeastern Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska: The Holocene, v. 14, p. 185-193.

[2] A record of late Holocene glacier fluctuations, Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska, 2002

Levy, L.B., 2002, A record of late Holocene glacier fluctuations, Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska: Northern Arizona University M.S. thesis, 71 p.