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Sample: UT1790-P3

Sample ID: UT1790-P3 [1] [2]
Station ID: Sixtymile_River_1
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Collector: Westgate, J. A.
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: 0.5 to 1 cm thick; brown to light yellow pumice and blocky grains with feldspar, Fe-Ti oxides and a green amphibole; within colluviated aeolian silt; on strath 18 m above Sixtymile River; 2 cm above top of bench gravel; field name JJO234. Westgate and others (2011) revise the stratigraphy of the section that this sample was collected from and note that sample UT1790 is located stratigraphically below the Gold Run tephra (UT1791) at this section.
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References Cited

[1] Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada, 2009

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Telka, A.M., Storer, J.E., Pearce, N.J.G., Enkin, R.J., Jackson, L.E. Jr., LeBarge, W., and Perkins, W.T., 2009, Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, n. 6, p. 465-478, doi:10.1139/E09-029.

[2] 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