Station: Midnight_Dome_Terrace
| Station ID: |
Midnight_Dome_Terrace [1] [2] [3] |
| Volcano: |
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| Collector: |
Froese, D. G. |
| Date visited: |
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| NAD83 latitude: |
64.05 |
| NAD83 longitude: |
-139.41 |
| Default location: |
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| Location description: |
The Midnight Dome site is located on an intermediate terrace, approximately 100 m above the modern valley-floor, 2 km east of Dawson City along the Midnight Dome road, Yukon Territory, Canada. The site consists of fluvial and glaciofluvial gravel overlying bedrock, covered by 10 -14 m of loess, retransported loess and colluvial deposits. Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83. |
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References Cited
Froese, D.G, Westgate, J.A., and Alloway, B.V., (eds.), 2005, Field trip guide for the International Field Conference and Workshop on Tephrochronology and Volcanism: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Science Report 2005/26, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, July 31-August 8, 2005, 132 p.
Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Walter, R.C., Sandhu, A.S., and Schweger, C.E., 2001, Dating Early and Middle (Reid) Pleistocene glaciations in central Yukon by tephrochronology: Quaternary Research, v. 56, n. 3, p. 335-348, doi: 10.1006/qres.2001. 2274 .
Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, p. 1386-1418, doi: 10.1139/e10-110