Sample: S8514B


Sample ID: S8514B [1]
Station ID: S8514
AT Num:
Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Hayes Tephra Set H
Collector: Fontana, M. R.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: white
Final unit:
Text Description: Pale white tephra that occurs approximately 41 cm below the surface and has a continuous horizontal exposure across the outcrop. Tephra S8514A and one unsampled, very thin, pale-white tephra overly this tephra, which is 2 cm thick. Loess occurs above this tephra, and a 1-cm-thick peat directly underlies it. This peat was radiocarbon dated at 3390+/-180 yBP. Another thin (<0.5 cm), unsampled, pale-white tephra occurs approximately 11 cm below this tephra.
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.