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Station: Cripple_Sump

Station ID: Cripple_Sump [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Volcano:
Collector: Preece, S. J.
Date visited:
NAD83 latitude: 64.8
NAD83 longitude: -147.99997
Default location: No
Location description: Exposure of Gold Hill Loess in the Ester mining region, an upland remnant created by mining activity, Ester, Alaska. Location imprecisely georeferenced from Figure 4 in Preece et al. (1999).
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200 km
100 mi
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References Cited

[1] Tephrochronology of late Cenozoic loess at Fairbanks, central Alaska, 1999

Preece, S. J., Westgate, J. A., Stemper, B. A., and Pewe, T. L., 1999, Tephrochronology of late Cenozoic loess at Fairbanks, central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, n. 1, p. 71-90.

[2] The Palisades is a key reference site for the middle Pleistocene of eastern Beringia: new evidence from paleomagnetics and regional tephrostratigraphy, 2013

Jensen, B.J.L., Reyes, A.V., Froese, D.G., and Stone, D.B., 2013, The Palisades is a key reference site for the middle Pleistocene of eastern Beringia: new evidence from paleomagnetics and regional tephrostratigraphy: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 63, p. 91-108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.035

[3] The Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old, 2003

Westgate, J. A., Preece, S. J., and Pewe, T. L., 2003, The Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old: in Westgate, J. A., (ed.), Special issue dedicated to Troy Pewe, Quaternary Research, v. 60, n. 1, p. 2-8.

[4] Tephrostratigraphy of the late Cenozoic Gold Hill loess, Fairbanks area, Alaska, 1991

Preece, S. J., 1991, Tephrostratigraphy of the late Cenozoic Gold Hill loess, Fairbanks area, Alaska: University of Toronto (Canada) M.S. thesis, 186 p.

[5] Update on the late Cenozoic tephrochronology of the Gold Hill loess at Fairbanks, Alaska, and correlation with the Klondike goldfields in the Yukon, 2000

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Sandhu, A.S., and Froese, D.G., 2000, Update on the late Cenozoic tephrochronology of the Gold Hill loess at Fairbanks, Alaska, and correlation with the Klondike goldfields in the Yukon [abs.], in Troy Pewe Memorial Workshop: Paleoclimates and Paleoenvironments in Eastern Beringia and the Bering Land Bridge, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 21-24, 2000, Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

[6] Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska, 2009

Pewe, T.L., Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Brown, P.M., and Leavitt, S.W., 2009, Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, n. 1-2, p. 294-320, doi: 10.1130/B26323.1 .