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Sample: UT1714

Sample ID: UT1714 [1] [2]
Station ID: NK26B
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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: 4 cm thick. Small pods of tephra within dark brown, organic-rich silt with many cobbles and some peaty patches. These flood-plain deposits fill depressions on the surface of underlying gravel (unit 5 of Elias et al., 1999) and are overlain by glaciolacustrine stony mud (unit 6 of Elias et al., 1999).
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 .