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Sample: UT1055

Sample ID: UT1055 [1] [2]
Station ID: Preece_2000_site_19
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Eruption:
Collector: Alloway, B. V.
Date sampled: 1990-01-01
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: light grey
Final unit:
Text Description: Tephra in silty sediments interstratified with poorly sorted gravels resting on a terrace (Archibald's Bench) 37-42 m above Bonanza Creek. This section was destroyed during placer mining operations. From Preece et al. (2011): pumice with many microlites, trace amounts of brown glass.
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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