Sample: S851D


Sample ID: S851D [1]
Station ID: S851
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Fontana, M. R.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: red-brown
Final unit:
Text Description: Red-brown tephra that occurs approximately 90 cm below the surface. Above the tephra, which is 4 cm thick, is gray loess. The tephra sharply overlies the gray and tan mottled loess below it, that has significant iron staining. Overlies tephras S851E (50 cm below), F, and G. Note that one thin (0.5 cm), discontinuous tephra occurs 3 cm above this one, but was not sampled.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Holocene tephrochronology of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska, 1988

Fontana, M.R., 1988, Holocene tephrochronology of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks M.S. thesis, 99 p.