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Sample: UA1198

Sample ID: UA1198 [1] [2] [3] [4]
Station ID: Palisades
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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: 10 cm thick. 2 to 3.5 m below woody, organic-rich silt and peat that host abundant large stumps and logs. It occurs as pods and lenses offset by centimetre-scale faults within massive, grey silt. Located 25 to 30 m above Yukon River.
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References Cited

[1] Permafrost response to last interglacial warming: field evidence from non-glaciated Yukon and Alaska, 2010

Reyes, A.V., Froese, D.G., and Jensen, B.L., 2010, Permafrost response to last interglacial warming: field evidence from non-glaciated Yukon and Alaska: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 29, n. 23024, p. 3256-3274, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.07.013 .

[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

[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 .