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Sample: UT388

Sample ID: UT388 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: Eva_II
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Final unit:
Text Description: 7 cm thick; fine grained and moderately to poorly sorted; in upper part of Gold Hill Loess (Pewe 1975). From Preece et al. (2011): 18 cm thick. Pods of tephra within Upper Gold Hill Loess about 1.5 m below Eva Forest Bed (Preece et al., 1999).
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] 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.

[2] Distribution, stratigraphy, petrochemistry and palaeomagnetism of the late Pleistocene Old Crow tephra in Alaska and the Yukon, 1985

Westgate, J. A., Walter, R. C., Pearce, G. W., and Gorton, M. P., 1985, Distribution, stratigraphy, petrochemistry and palaeomagnetism of the late Pleistocene Old Crow tephra in Alaska and the Yukon: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences [Journal Canadien des Sciences de la Terre], v. 22, n. 6, p. 893-906.

[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 .