Sample: UT743


Sample ID: UT743 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Halfway_House
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Volcano:
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Eruption:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: orange
Final unit:
Text Description: 3 m higher than the Old Crow Tephra at this locality; 1-mm to 1-cm-thick, discontinuous tephra that occurs in a dark silt that has been deformed by solifluction. Occurs at the top of a subhorizontal, layered and soliflucted paleosol interbedded with sand layers. 5YR5/2.
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References Cited

[1] Tephrostratigraphy of the late Cenozoic Gold Hill loess, Fairbanks area, Alaska, 1991

Preece, S. J., 1991, Tephrostratigraphy of the late Cenozoic Gold Hill loess, Fairbanks area, Alaska: University of Toronto (Canada) M.S. thesis, 186 p.

[2] Tephrochronology of late Cenozoic loess at Fairbanks, central Alaska, 1999

Preece, S. J., Westgate, J. A., Stemper, B. A., and Pewe, T. L., 1999, Tephrochronology of late Cenozoic loess at Fairbanks, central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, n. 1, p. 71-90.

[3] Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska, 2009

Pewe, T.L., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Brown, P.M., and Leavitt, S.W., 2009, Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, n. 1-2, p. 294-320, doi: 10.1130/B26323.1 .