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Sample: UT1677

Sample ID: UT1677 [1] [2]
Station ID: Froese_2003_Chester_Bluff
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Collector: Froese, D. G.
Date sampled: 1999-01-01
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Charley River tephra consists mostly of fine-grained pumiceous glass with a small amount of blocky, poorly vesicular glass. It is heavily contaminated with detrital minerals, but a few primary grains of feldspar, FeTi oxides, biotite, hornblende, orthopyroxene, and apatite were identified.
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References Cited

[1] A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory, 2011

Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, p. 1386-1418, doi: 10.1139/e10-110

[2] 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 .