Sample: UT887

Sample ID:	UT887 ^[1] ^[2] ^[3]
Station ID:	Gold_Hill_III
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Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1:	Tephra Fall
Color:	creamy white
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Text Description:	Thin, discontinuous tephra bed about 4.5 m above tephra sample UT804 at this location. Coarse, white, wispy ash that occurs as small pods and stringers with sharp to diffuse contacts interbedded with silver (2.5Y6/2) silt with many charcoal flecks. Maximum thickness of 1 cm.
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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 .

Alaska Volcano Observatory

Sample: UT887

References Cited

[1] Tephrostratigraphy of the late Cenozoic Gold Hill loess, Fairbanks area, Alaska, 1991

[2] Tephrochronology of late Cenozoic loess at Fairbanks, central Alaska, 1999

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