Sample: UT895

Sample ID:	UT895 ^[1] ^[2]
Station ID:	Halfway_House
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1:	Tephra Fall
Color:	gray to white
Final unit:
Text Description:	1-cm-thick tephra that has a basal white bed and darker upper bed, with a distinct color contact between the two. Occurs as pods that have been microfaulted within massive grey silt (5Y6/2) with small oxidation blebs. Sharp, irregular lower contact and a diffuse upper contact; crops out about 30 cm above UT816 and UT817. Average color is 10YR7/1, the tephra is oxidized.
Sample Location:

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.

Alaska Volcano Observatory

Sample: UT895

References Cited

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

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