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Sample: UA348

Sample ID: UA348 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: Gold_Hill_Cut
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Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Final unit:
Text Description: 13-cm-thick, occurs ~ 1m below the Eva Forest Bed unconformity at Gold Hill.
Sample Location:
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Uninstrumented

100 km
50 mi
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References Cited

[1] Discovery of a large-magnitude, late Pleistocene volcanic eruption in Alaska, 1982

Westgate, J. A., 1982, Discovery of a large-magnitude, late Pleistocene volcanic eruption in Alaska: Science, v. 218, n. 4574, p. 789-790.

[2] Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska, 2009

Pewe, T.L., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Brown, P.M., and Leavitt, S.W., 2009, Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, n. 1-2, p. 294-320, doi: 10.1130/B26323.1 .

[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] Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6, 2011

Preece, S.J., Pearce, N.J.G., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J.L., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 2069-2099, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.020 .