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Station: Sixtymile_River_1

Station ID: Sixtymile_River_1 [1] [2] [3]
Volcano:
Collector: Westgate, J. A.
Date visited: 2000-01-01
NAD83 latitude: 63.533
NAD83 longitude: -139.887
Default location: No
Location description: The Sixtymile River (1) site is in a placer mine excavation in terrace sediments 18 m above the Sixtymile River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Originally visited in 2000 by Jackson (2009); however, Westgate and others (2011) provide a revision of the tephrostratigraphy at this section after re-visiting in 2002. Coordinates from Preece et al. (2011). Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83.
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References Cited

[1] Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada, 2009

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., Froese, D.G., Telka, A.M., Storer, J.E., Pearce, N.J.G., Enkin, R.J., Jackson, L.E. Jr., LeBarge, W., and Perkins, W.T., 2009, Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 46, n. 6, p. 465-478, doi:10.1139/E09-029.

[2] A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory, 2011

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

[3] Revision of the tephrostratigraphy of the lower Sixtymile River area, Yukon Territory, Canada, 2011

Westgate, J.A., Preece, S.J., and Jackson Jr., L.E., 2011, Revision of the tephrostratigraphy of the lower Sixtymile River area, Yukon Territory, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, n. 3, p. 695-701, doi:10.1139/E10-106.
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