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Sample: WL1-430a

Sample ID: WL1-430a [1] [2]
Station ID: WL-1
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source: Aniakchak
Eruption: Aniakchak CFE II
Collector: Levy, L. B.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description: 1.4 m thick; characterized by a general lack of bedding, sharp, bounding contacts, and its mixture with lake sediments. The majority of this unit is composed of reworked tephra and lake sediment. Characterized by platy glass shards of both brown and colorless glass. The glass is minorly phenocrystic with cylindrical, conical and equant vesicles. Bubble wall junctions are also present in the glass shards.
Sample Location:

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.