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Sample: UT828

Sample ID: UT828 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Station ID: Eva_II
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: cream
Final unit:
Text Description: Occurs as pods of tephra within the Upper Gold Hill Loess. Pods as thick as 18 cm, about 2.5 m above the Sheep Creek tephra and 1.5 m below Eva Forest Bed at this location. Sharp upper and lower contacts, 10YR7/1.
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.

[3] Age of Sheep Creek Tephra (Pleistocene) in central Alaska from thermoluminescence dating of bracketing loess, 1996

Berger, G. W., Pewe, T. L., Westgate, J. A., and Preece, S. J., 1996, Age of Sheep Creek Tephra (Pleistocene) in central Alaska from thermoluminescence dating of bracketing loess: Quaternary Research, v. 45, n. 3, p. 263-270.

[4] 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

[5] 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 .

[6] The last interglacial to glacial transition, Togiak Bay, southwestern Alaska, 2001

Kaufman, D.S., Manley, W.F., Wolfe, A.P., Hu, F.S., Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., and Forman, S.L., 2001, The last interglacial to glacial transition, Togiak Bay, southwestern Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 55, n. 2, p. 190-202.