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Sample: UT872

Sample ID: UT872 [1] [2]
Station ID: Gold_Hill_I
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: cream-pink
Final unit:
Text Description: Few cm above the HH tephra (UT825 and UT826) at this location. Cream-pink ash that is discontinuous and occurs as connected pods with a maximum thickness of 0.5 cm, interbedded with brown (2.5Y6/3), massive silt with many oxidation nodules. Sharp, undulating lower contact and distinct upper contact that is more diffuse. No crystals visible. Repetition in the sequence is undoubtedly due to solifluction. Unconformity with the Goldstream Formation immediately above the tephra.
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.