Station: Preece_2000_site_16
| Station ID: |
Preece_2000_site_16 [1] [2] |
| Volcano: |
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| Collector: |
Alloway, B. V. |
| Date visited: |
1990-01-01 |
| NAD83 latitude: |
63.816 |
| NAD83 longitude: |
-139.05 |
| Default location: |
No |
| Location description: |
Upper Bonanza Creek road, Yukon Territory, Canada. Crudely stratified gravel is overlain by 0.9 m of bedded silts and sands. 1.5 m of gravel overlie the silt and sand unit. Tephra pods are in a 0.6 m thick unit composed of distorted sand and gravel. Overlying the tephra beds are interbedded gravel and sand. Section was destroyed during placer mining operations. Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83. |
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References Cited
Preece, S. J., Westgate, J. A., Alloway, B. V., and Milner, M. W., 2000, Characterization, identity, distribution, and source of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike District of the Yukon, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 37, n. 7, p. 983-996.
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