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Sample: UT2178

Sample ID: UT2178 [1] [2]
Station ID: Chatanika_Site
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Collector: Pewe, T. L.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: ~1 cm thick and occurs ~4 m below the top of the Goldstream Formation in exposures along the Chatanika River, 40 km north of Fairbanks.
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Orange (Watch)
Yellow (Advisory)
Green (Normal)
Uninstrumented

200 km
100 mi
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References Cited

[1] 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 .

[2] 150,000 years of loess accumulation in central Alaska, 2016

Jensen, B. J., Evans, M. E., Froese, D. G., and Kravchinsky, V. A., 2016, 150,000 years of loess accumulation in central Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 135, p. 1-23.