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Sample: Ahklun Mountains-Tephra-C_average

Sample ID: Ahklun Mountains-Tephra-C_average [1] [2]
Station ID: Ahklun Mountains Regional Tephra
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Collector: Kaufman, D. S.
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Average composition of samples from Lone Spruce Pond (UA1785), Arolik Lake (Kaufman et al. 2003) (UA1791), and Sunday Lake (UA1789). Tephra C is composed entirely of crystal-rich blocky glass and pumice. It contains both brown and clear glass. Its age overlaps with that of a prominent tephra in Nimgun Lake in the Ahklun Mountains, which was not analyzed.
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Uninstrumented

300 km
200 mi
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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] A 33,000 year record of environmental change from Arolik Lake, Ahklun Mountains, Alaska, 2003

Kaufman, D.S., Hu, F.S., Briner, J.P., Werner, Al, Finney, B.P., and Gregory-Eaves, Irene, 2003, A 33,000 year record of environmental change from Arolik Lake, Ahklun Mountains, Alaska: Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 30, p. 343-362.