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Station: 87-APH

Station ID: 87-APH [1] [2] [3]
Volcano:
Collector: Beget, J. E.
Date visited:
NAD83 latitude: 65.1
NAD83 longitude: -153.29997
Default location: No
Location description: Palisades along the Yukon River; the Palisades are bluffs or cliffs as much as 90 m high along 11 km of the south bank of the Yukon River near Tanana, Alaska. Much of the extensive bluff is underlain by Tertiary sedimentary rocks and lignite, but Quaternary sediments capping the bluff are locally as much as 60 m thick (Yeend, 1977). Location imprecisely georeferenced from Figure 1 of Beget et al. (1991).
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References Cited

[1] Old Crow Tephra found at the Palisades of the Yukon, Alaska, 1991

Beget, J. E., Edwards, Mary, Hopkins, David, Keskinen, Mary, and Kukla, G. J., 1991, Old Crow Tephra found at the Palisades of the Yukon, Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 35, n. 2, p. 291-297.

[2] Late Pleistocene environments of the western Noatak basin, northwestern Alaska, 1999

Elias, S. E., Hamilton, T. D., Edwards, M. E., Beget, J. E., Krumhardt, A. P., and Lavoie, C., 1999, Late Pleistocene environments of the western Noatak basin, northwestern Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, p. 769-789.

[3] The Stampede Tephra: a middle Pleistocene marker bed in glacial and eolian deposits of central Alaska, 1991

Beget, J. E., and Keskinen, Mary, 1991, The Stampede Tephra: a middle Pleistocene marker bed in glacial and eolian deposits of central Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences [Journal Canadien des Sciences de la Terre], v. 28, n. 7, p. 991-1002.