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Sample: ADL-3

Sample ID: ADL-3 [1] [2]
Station ID: Adak_Lake_Tephras_regional
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Volcano:
Possible source: Kanaga
Eruption: Kanaga Yellow Brown Olive Ash
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Final unit:
Text Description: Light/med pink very fine/fine ash over gray medium ash. Particles are blocky shards and crystals. Vesicles appear as though gas continued to exsolve post fracture.. This is a correlated tephra unit on Adak Lake. Tephra E of Andrew lake was correlated with Tephra D of Heart Lake. See information on individual samples and Krawiec and others (2013).
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Holocene tephrochronology and storminess inferred from two lakes on Adak Island, Alaska, 2013

Krawiec, A.C.L, 2013, Holocene tephrochronology and storminess inferred from two lakes on Adak Island, Alaska: Northern Arizona University M.S. thesis, 109 p.

[2] Age models and tephrostratigraphy from two lakes on Adak Island, Alaska, 2013

Krawiec, A.C., Kaufman, D.S., and Vaillencourt, D.A., 2013, Age models and tephrostratigraphy from two lakes on Adak Island, Alaska: Quaternary Geochronology, v. 18, p .41-53.