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Sample: UT1792

Sample ID: UT1792 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Sixtymile_River_1
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Collector: Westgate, J. A.
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: 0.5 cm thick; pumice with rare blocky grains. Plagioclase, orthopyroxene, green amphibole, and Fe-Ti oxides as well as accessory minerals of basaltic hornblende and zircon.Occurs in sand and silt on strath 18 m above the Sixtymile River, 417 cm above top of bench gravel. Field name JJO244. Westgate and others (2011) revise the stratigraphy of the section that this sample was collected from and note that the sample UT1792 is located stratigraphically above Gold Run tephra (UT1791) at this section.
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References Cited

[1] Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada, 2009

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Telka, A.M., Storer, J.E., Pearce, N.J.G., Enkin, R.J., Jackson, L.E. Jr., LeBarge, W., and Perkins, W.T., 2009, Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, n. 6, p. 465-478, doi:10.1139/E09-029.

[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

[3] Revision of the tephrostratigraphy of the lower Sixtymile River area, Yukon Territory, Canada, 2011

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., and Jackson Jr., L.E., 2011, Revision of the tephrostratigraphy of the lower Sixtymile River area, Yukon Territory, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, n. 3, p. 695-701, doi:10.1139/E10-106.