Sample: UT1813


Sample ID: UT1813 [1] [2]
Station ID: Thistle_Creek
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Eruption:
Collector: Westgate, J. A.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Within frozen organic-rich silt near the top of a ~20 m, poorly exposed, placer mining cut. Tephra bed is reworked and 1.5 to 8 cm thick. Occurs significantly higher in section than where Old Crow tephra appears in a section ~30 m downstream.
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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] A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory, 2011

Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, p. 1386-1418, doi: 10.1139/e10-110