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Sample: UT1816

Sample ID: UT1816 [1] [2]
Station ID: Thistle_Creek
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Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Westgate, J. A.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: 1.5 to 15 cm thick. Sections at Thistle Creek contain 3 organic-rich silt beds intercalated with loess. Oct occurs within loess between the 2 lowermost organic-rich silt beds (Westgate et al., 2009).
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 .