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Sample: UT873

Sample ID: UT873 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: Gold_Hill_III
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Eruption:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: cream-pink
Final unit:
Text Description: Pod that is 4 mm thick by 10 cm long and lacks any obvious mafic minerals. Sharp upper and lower contacts and interbedded with orange-brown oxidized silt. Preserved in a thin peat about 1 m above sample UT497 at this location.
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 Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old, 2003

Westgate, J. A., Preece, S. J., and Pewe, T. L., 2003, The Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old: in Westgate, J. A., (ed.), Special issue dedicated to Troy Pewe, Quaternary Research, v. 60, n. 1, p. 2-8.

[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 .