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Sample: UT1777

Sample ID: UT1777 [1] [2]
Station ID: Dominion_Creek
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Collector: Preece, S. J.
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Gold Run tephra lies within loess and can be traced for 50 m across the section. In places, the tephra bed has been deformed into many pods, some as thick as 10 cm, as a result of loading following its deposition. From Preece et al. (2011): 13 cm thick; pumice and blocky grains; in organic silt overlying Dominion Creek Gravel; field name JJD00-62. Sample collected 2000 by D. Froese.
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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