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Sample: UA771

Sample ID: UA771 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: Lost_Chicken
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Collector: Unknown, Unknown
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Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Text Description: Sample collected 17 m below the top of a 25 m section of organic silts. The tephra immediately overlies peat beds that contain pine, spruce, and birch pollen.
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References Cited

[1] Fission-track ages of late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Yukon Territory and Alaska, 1982

Naeser, N. D., Westgate, J. A., Hughes, O. L., and Pewe, T. L., 1982, Fission-track ages of late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Yukon Territory and Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences [Journal Canadien des Sciences de la Terre], v. 19, n. 11, p. 2167-2178.

[2] A contribution to the Pleistocene geochronology of Alaska and the Yukon Territory: fission-track age of distal tephra units, 1978

Briggs, N. D., and Westgate, J. A., 1978, A contribution to the Pleistocene geochronology of Alaska and the Yukon Territory: fission-track age of distal tephra units: in Short papers of the fourth international conference, geochronology, cosmochronology, isotope geology, 1978, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-0701, p. 49-52.

[3] Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska, 2003

Matthews, J.V., Westgate, J.A., Ovenden, L., Carter, D.L., and Fouch, T., 2003, Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 60, n. 1, p. 9-18.
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