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Sample: UT1462

Sample ID: UT1462 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: Preece_2000_site_21
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source: Drum
Eruption:
Collector: Alloway, B. V.
Date sampled: 1990-01-01
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description: Maximum thickness of 3 cm; Tephra bed occurs as small, en echelon pods in 0.3 m of finely bedded clay and silt. This unit is overlain by 0.1 m of fine sand and silt, which is overlain by 0.7 m of layered reddish-brown and black silt. From Preece et al. (2011): 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 .