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Station: Caribou_Creek_1

Station ID: Caribou_Creek_1 [1] [2] [3]
Volcano:
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date visited:
NAD83 latitude: 62.86555555555556
NAD83 longitude: -137.0238888888889
Default location: No
Location description: Gravel pit exposure on the north side of the Pelly far, road, approximately 120 m above the Pelly River, Yukon Territory, Canada. Well-exposed sediments comprise 4 stratigraphic units that extend laterally for 20 m and are 3-4 m high. Upper surface of the exposure slopes 15-20 degrees towards the road. Coordinates from Ward and others (2008), provided as degrees/minutes/seconds and converted to decimal. Coordinates vary slightly from those reported for these stations in other publications. Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83.
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References Cited

[1] Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6, 2011

Preece, S.J., Pearce, N.J.G., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J.L., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 2069-2099, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.020 .

[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] Old Crow tephra (140 ± 10 ka) constrains penultimate Reid glaciation in central Yukon Territory, 2008

Ward, B.C., Bond, J.D., Froese, D., and Jensen, Britta, 2008, Old Crow tephra (140+/-10 ka) constrains penultimate Reid glaciation in central Yukon Territory: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 27, p. 1909-1915.