Sample: Westgate_2000_Sulphur_Creek_Dawson_tephra

Sample ID:	Westgate_2000_Sulphur_Creek_Dawson_tephra ^[1]
Station ID:	Sulphur_Creek
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Volcano:
Possible source:	Emmons Lake Volcanic Center
Eruption:	Emmons Lake Volcanic Center C2
Collector:	Westgate, J. A.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1:	Tephra Fall
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Text Description:	25-cm-thick-tephra; consists of thin, bubble-wall shards. Orthopyroxene, plagioclase, magnetite, and ilmenite are relatively abundant in the small crystal component, which also contains minor amounts of clinopyroxene, apatite, and zircon. Deformed, normally graded vitric beds; sharply defined basal contact with underlying loess. Lowermost 20 cm of tephra is very pure, the uppermost 5 cm consists of reworked tephra and loess.
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References Cited

[1] Dawson Tephra: a prominent stratigraphic marker of late Wisconsinan age in west-central Yukon, Canada, 2000

Westgate, J. A., Preece, S. J., Kotler, Erica, and Hall, Sheila, 2000, Dawson Tephra: a prominent stratigraphic marker of late Wisconsinan age in west-central Yukon, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 37, n. 4, p. 621-627.