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Sample: UT791

Sample ID: UT791 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: Gold_Hill_II
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Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: gray
Final unit:
Text Description: Occurs in pods to 5 cm thick as a mixed, or layered, darked (5Y6/2) and lighter grey (2.5Y7/1) tephra that is interbedded with soliflucted, grey (2.5Y6/3) silt with oxidation nodules and layers of more and less compact silt. The boundaries between the colors are sharp and fairly well-layered to diffuse. In some pods, the colors are segregated to one part of the bed whereas other pods contain vertically repeated colors, mixed and subhoriztonal and giving a variegated appearance. One contact usually sharp whereas the other is less sharp. Repeated over 56 cm interval with solifluction folds. Some silt wisps intercalated with the tephra.
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References Cited

[1] Geochemical variation in the less than 5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex, 1997

Preece, S. J., 1997, Geochemical variation in the less than 5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska, 2009

Pewe, T.L., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Brown, P.M., and Leavitt, S.W., 2009, Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, n. 1-2, p. 294-320, doi: 10.1130/B26323.1 .