Sample: UA1309


Sample ID: UA1309 [1]
Station ID: Jensen_Palisades_East
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Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Jensen, B. J. L.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: yellow-white
Final unit:
Text Description: Only sample of Jensen_Palisades-8 (what it is labelled as in Table 1 of Jensen and others, 2013). Sampled in the paleomagnetic transect at Site D1, in a reworked peat ~2 m above PAL tephra. Palisades-8 is yellow-white and discontinuous, forming thin wisps up to 0.2 cm thick and 20 cm long. Glass morphology consists primarily of blocky, thick-walled pumice, with some frothy pumice and platy glass.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] 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