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Sample: UT892

Sample ID: UT892 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Ester_II
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: dark brown to orange
Final unit:
Text Description: Overlies UT738 tephra; occurs as laminated pods positioned adjacent to an ice-wedge cast. Deformed in most places with a maximum extent of 73 cm wide and 12 cm thick. Pods occur over a 27-44 cm vertical zone and have very sharp, subhorizontal basal contacts with the underlying silt with occaisional shearing. Upper contacts more regular and diffuse with shearing. In some places, occurs intercalated with a fine white tephra that is 1 to 3 mm thick.
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] The Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old, 2003

Westgate, J. A., Preece, S. J., and Pewe, T. L., 2003, The Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old: in Westgate, J. A., (ed.), Special issue dedicated to Troy Pewe, Quaternary Research, v. 60, n. 1, p. 2-8.