Sample: S8515B-Pop.1


Sample ID: S8515B-Pop.1 [1]
Station ID: S8515
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 is 1 cm thick and occurs approximately 28 cm below the surface. Above the tephra is brown and tan mottled loess with numerous interbedded layers of peat and below the tephra is 20 cm of loess and peat and a sharp contact with underlying ice-contact stratified drift.
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.