Station: S851

Station ID: S851 [1]
Volcano:
Collector: Fontana, M. R.
Date visited:
NAD83 latitude: 61.6
NAD83 longitude: -149.1
Default location: No
Location description: In the town of Palmer, Alaska, at the intersection of Beaver and Gloria streets. Two and a half m of loess exposed during foundation excavation for a housing development. Five tephra recorded in the stratigraphy at this location (one of which was a couplet), but only four were sampled. See Fontana (1988) for detailed stratigraphy. Coordinates provided as degrees/minutes and converted to decimal degrees; datum not provided, assumed to be NAD83.
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References Cited

[1] Holocene tephrochronology of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska, 1988

Fontana, M.R., 1988, Holocene tephrochronology of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks M.S. thesis, 99 p.