Home
Volcanoes
Webcams
News
Explore Data
Images
Get Involved
About AVO

Sample: UT976

Sample ID: UT976 [1] [2]
Station ID: UT976
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description: 0.5 to 1 cm thick. Occurs as discontinuous pods in bedded clayey silt and clay near base of organic-rich silt (loess) with prominent log layers. The organic-rich silts underlie Holocene peat and thaw lake deposits. Tephra is at 23 m on figure 13 of Hamilton and Brigham-Grette (1991). Brigham-Grette, written comm. 31/10/2008.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] 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

[2] 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 .