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Sample: UT1409

Sample ID: UT1409 [1] [2]
Station ID: DK96-33
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Collector: Kaufman, D. S.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Lowest tephra bed at station DK96-33. Sample UT1408 is of the same tephra bed. This tephra marks the base of the third lithofacies unit at this station, and is 5.1 m above sea level. Ranges up to 5 cm thick and shows two discrete layers of light-tan, silt to medium sand grains separated by up to 1 cm of black silt in some areas. The lower layer is thicker and finer grained whereas the upper layer is coarser and pumice and phenocryst rich. Sample is dominated by low-vesicular pumice and has similar mineralogy and composition to samples UT1408 and UT1435.
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References Cited

[1] The variegated (VT) tephra: A new regional marker for middle to late marine isotope stage 5 across Yukon and Alaska, 2011

Jensen, B.J.L., Preece, S.J., Lamothe, Michel, Pearce, N.J.G., Froese, D.G., Westgate, J.A., Schaefer, Janet, and Beget, Jim, 2011, The variegated (VT) tephra: A new regional marker for middle to late marine isotope stage 5 across Yukon and Alaska: Quaternary International, v. 246, p. 312-323, doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.028.

[2] The last interglacial to glacial transition, Togiak Bay, southwestern Alaska, 2001

Kaufman, D.S., Manley, W.F., Wolfe, A.P., Hu, F.S., Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., and Forman, S.L., 2001, The last interglacial to glacial transition, Togiak Bay, southwestern Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 55, n. 2, p. 190-202.