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Sample: UT50

Sample ID: UT50 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: UT50
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Westgate, J. A.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description: 5 cm thick. The tephra occurs in cryogenically deformed, late-Pleistocene fluvial deposits located below the glaciolacustrine silt and clay that form a conspicuous, dark, recessive unit close to the top of the bluff. No other information provided.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Old Crow tephra: a new late Pleistocene stratigraphic marker across North-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory, 1983

Westgate, J. A., Hamilton, T. D., and Gorton, M. P., 1983, Old Crow tephra: a new late Pleistocene stratigraphic marker across North-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory: Quaternary Research, v. 19, n. 1, p. 38-54.

[2] Discovery of a large-magnitude, late Pleistocene volcanic eruption in Alaska, 1982

Westgate, J. A., 1982, Discovery of a large-magnitude, late Pleistocene volcanic eruption in Alaska: Science, v. 218, n. 4574, p. 789-790.

[3] A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory, 2011

Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, p. 1386-1418, doi: 10.1139/e10-110

[4] Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6, 2011

Preece, S.J., Pearce, N.J.G., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J.L., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 2069-2099, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.020 .