Sample: UT788

Sample ID:	UT788 ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]
Station ID:	West_Ridge
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Volcano:
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Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1:	Tephra Fall
Color:	pink
Final unit:
Text Description:	Discontinuous bed ranging from 2 to 10 cm thick. Occurs in pods that are interbedded with banded to platy, grey to brown silt with oxidation stringers and bands. Faint lamination in the darker, basal part of the tephra. Upper and lower contacts are sharp although there is localized interdigitation with loess. Oxidatation common.
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] Age of Sheep Creek Tephra (Pleistocene) in central Alaska from thermoluminescence dating of bracketing loess, 1996

Berger, G. W., Pewe, T. L., Westgate, J. A., and Preece, S. J., 1996, Age of Sheep Creek Tephra (Pleistocene) in central Alaska from thermoluminescence dating of bracketing loess: Quaternary Research, v. 45, n. 3, p. 263-270.

[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 .

[5] Recurring middle Pleistocene outburst floods in east-central Alaska, 2003

Froese, D.G., Smith, D.G., Westgate, J.A., Ager, T.A., Preece, S.J., Sandhu, A., Enkin, R.J., and Weber, F., 2003, Recurring middle Pleistocene outburst floods in east-central Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 60, n. 1, p. 50-62, doi: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00090-5 .