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Sample: UT822

Sample ID: UT822 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Gold_Hill_I
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: creamy-pink
Final unit:
Text Description: Few cm above the HH tephra (UT825 and UT826) at this location. Slightly mottled tephra that is creamy-pink (10YR7/2) and interbedded with grey (2.5Y6/2), compact silt with oxidized bands and nodules. Deformed into pods, some which are 10 cm thick, and repeats vertically, undoubtedly due to solifluction. Lower contact is sharp and interfingering (shearing?), whereas the upper contact is diffuse. Lenses of loess incorporated into the tephra, local oxidation present.
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 variegated (VT) tephra: A new regional marker for middle to late marine isotope stage 5 across Yukon and Alaska, 2011

Jensen, B.J.L., Preece, S.J., Lamothe, Michel, Pearce, N.J.G., Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A., Schaefer, Janet, and Beget, Jim, 2011, The variegated (VT) tephra: A new regional marker for middle to late marine isotope stage 5 across Yukon and Alaska: Quaternary International, v. 246, p. 312-323, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.028.