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Sample: UT398

Sample ID: UT398 [1]
Station ID: CRH94
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Collector: Westgate, J. A.
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Occurs as pods of tephra, up to 25 cm thick, within lacustrine or pond deposits of clayey silt to silty clay near the base of the section. Likely separated into pods as a result of loading into the underlying sediments, which must have been saturated and of low bulk density relative to the tephra when the latter was deposited. Pumiceous glass with sparse amounts of bubble-wall shards. Abundant hornblende (dark greenish-brown in color), hypersthene (more abundant in this than in Surprise Creek tephra), and plagioclase; Fe-Ti oxides and oxyhornblende are present but not conspicuous.
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References Cited

[1] Tephrochronology, magnetostratigraphy and mammalian faunas of Middle and Early Pleistocene sediments at two sites on the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, Canada, 2013

Westgate, J.A., Pearce, G.W., Preece, S.J., Schweger, C.E., Morlan, R.E., Pearce, N.J.G., and Perkins, T.W., 2013, Tephrochronology, magnetostratigraphy and mammalian faunas of Middle and Early Pleistocene sediments at two sites on the Old Crow River, northern Yukon Territory, Canada: Quaternary Research, v. 79, n. 1, p. 75-85.