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Sample: UT1064

Sample ID: UT1064 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: UT1064
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source: Drum
Eruption:
Collector: Alloway, B. V.
Date sampled: 1990-01-01
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: light grey
Final unit:
Text Description: Maximum thickness of 7 cm. 8 to 9 m below surface in black, organic-rich silt with abundant rootlets. Light grey, discontinuous, repeats vertically. From Preece et al. (2011): pumice, rare blocky shards, and rare bubble-wall shards.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Characterization, identity, distribution, and source of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike District of the Yukon, Canada, 2000

Preece, S. J., Westgate, J. A., Alloway, B. V., and Milner, M. W., 2000, Characterization, identity, distribution, and source of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike District of the Yukon, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 37, n. 7, p. 983-996.

[2] Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America, 2008

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., Roberts, R.G., Demuro, M., Hart, W.K., and Perkins, W., 2008, Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America: Quaternary International, v. 178, n. 1, p. 183-209, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.03.009.

[3] 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

[4] Dating Early and Middle (Reid) Pleistocene glaciations in central Yukon by tephrochronology, 2001

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Walter, R.C., Sandhu, A.S., and Schweger, C.E., 2001, Dating Early and Middle (Reid) Pleistocene glaciations in central Yukon by tephrochronology: Quaternary Research, v. 56, n. 3, p. 335-348, doi: 10.1006/qres.2001. 2274 .