Sample: Froese_2005_Little_Blanche_Creek_tephra
| Sample ID: |
Froese_2005_Little_Blanche_Creek_tephra [1] |
| Station ID: |
Paradise_Hill |
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| Collector: |
Westgate, J. A. |
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| Sample type 1: |
Tephra Fall |
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| Text Description: |
Little Blanche Creek tephra is preserved as pods, up to 5 cm thick, in a sand lens about 4 m below the top of the Upper White Channel gravel on the south pit wall. Crystal-rich with abundant hornblende, plagioclase, and FeTi oxides and minor amounts of hypersthene, apatite and zircon. Mostly highly inflated pumice, although some chunky glass of low vesicularity is present. |
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References Cited
Froese, D.G, Westgate, J.A., and Alloway, B.V., (eds.), 2005, Field trip guide for the International Field Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology and Volcanism: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Science Report 2005/26, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, July 31-August 8, 2005, 132 p.