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Station: UA739

Station ID: UA739 [1] [2] [3]
Volcano:
Collector: Westgate, J. A.
Date visited:
NAD83 latitude: 66.72
NAD83 longitude: -148.45
Default location: No
Location description: Road cut along the north side of the Fairbanks-Nenana Highway, 3 km east of Halfway House, exposes loess with paleosols and two tephra beds above weathered schist (see Fig. 8 in Westgate et al. 1983).
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References Cited

[1] Old Crow tephra: a new late Pleistocene stratigraphic marker across North-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory, 1983

Westgate, J. A., Hamilton, T. D., and Gorton, M. P., 1983, Old Crow tephra: a new late Pleistocene stratigraphic marker across North-central Alaska and western Yukon Territory: Quaternary Research, v. 19, n. 1, p. 38-54.

[2] Discovery of a large-magnitude, late Pleistocene volcanic eruption in Alaska, 1982

Westgate, J. A., 1982, Discovery of a large-magnitude, late Pleistocene volcanic eruption in Alaska: Science, v. 218, n. 4574, p. 789-790.

[3] Correlation techniques in tephra studies, 1981

Westgate, J. A., and Gorton, M. P., 1981, Correlation techniques in tephra studies: in Self, S. and Sparks, R. S. J., Tephra studies: proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Tephra studies as a tool in Quaternary research", NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series C 0075, p. 73-94.