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Sample: UT14

Sample ID: UT14 [1] [2]
Station ID: Klondike_Site
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Collector: Milner, M. W.
Date sampled: 1975-01-01
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Maximum thickness of 3 cm. In muck with isolated cobbles of White Channel gravels overlying columnar jointed lavas. Tephra bed is a few centimetres above the lavas. Overlying the tephra bed is at least 10 m of muck containing mammal fossils. Field name MWM5.
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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] 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