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Sample: UA1274

Sample ID: UA1274 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Caribou_Creek_2
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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: 2 to 3 cm thick. Within sandy-silt overlying gravel. Occurs as discontinuous beds and blebs of tephra approximately 20 cm above the base of stratigraphic unit 2 at this section. 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.
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