Sample: S859D


Sample ID: S859D [1]
Station ID: S859
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Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Fontana, M. R.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: white
Final unit:
Text Description: Pale-white tephra couplet that occurs approximately 60 cm below the surface. Exhibits the same field characterstics of sample number S851E. Twenty-four cm of gray and tan mottled loess underlies this tephra, at the base of which is a sharp contact with underlying bedded sand.
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.