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Sample: UT889

Sample ID: UT889 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Gold_Hill_II
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Eruption:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: white
Final unit:
Text Description: Rewoked, appears at the 19 m level; the white, crystal-rich tephra is preserved in small loess blocks that collapsed into a gully, which was later filled with loess. Occurs as pods and in some pods, is segregated into two vitric pure white and crystal-rich parts with sharp contacts between them. Tephra and surrounding silt contacts are sharp and occasionally sheared a little and very irregular. Maximum thickness is 1 cm and maximum pod size is 9 by 1 cm.
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] 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 .