Sample: UA1299


Sample ID: UA1299 [1] [2]
Station ID: Palisades_Site_A
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Jensen, B. J. L.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: grey/white
Final unit:
Text Description: Site A2. 40-cm-thick, massive, grey/white tephra, composed primarily of bubble-wall shards, laterally continuous across the exposure. The tephra is sharply overlain by 65 cm of compact peat.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] A late-Middle Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 6) vegetated surface buried by Old Crow tephra at the Palisades, interior Alaska, 2010

Reyes, A.V., Jensen, B.L., Zazula, G.D., Ager, T.A., Kuzmina, Svetlana, La Farge, Catherine, and Froese, D.G., 2010, A late-Middle Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 6) vegetated surface buried by Old Crow tephra at the Palisades, interior Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 29, n. 5-6, p. 801-811, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.003

[2] The Palisades is a key reference site for the middle Pleistocene of eastern Beringia: new evidence from paleomagnetics and regional tephrostratigraphy, 2013

Jensen, B.J.L., Reyes, A.V., Froese, D.G., and Stone, D.B., 2013, The Palisades is a key reference site for the middle Pleistocene of eastern Beringia: new evidence from paleomagnetics and regional tephrostratigraphy: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 63, p. 91-108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.035