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Sample: UA1240

Sample ID: UA1240 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Caribou_Creek_1
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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 to 6 cm thick. Within well-stratified sand and silt of an alluvial fan overlying Reid deglacial gravels. Consists mainly of bubble-wall glass shards, less than 75 microns. Pyroxene and plagioclase present.
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 .

[3] Old Crow tephra (140 ± 10 ka) constrains penultimate Reid glaciation in central Yukon Territory, 2008

Ward, B.C., Bond, J.D., Froese, D., and Jensen, Britta, 2008, Old Crow tephra (140+/-10 ka) constrains penultimate Reid glaciation in central Yukon Territory: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, p. 1909-1915.