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Station: Lost_Chicken

Station ID: Lost_Chicken [1] [2] [3]
Volcano:
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date visited:
NAD83 latitude: 64.05
NAD83 longitude: -141.8833333
Default location: No
Location description: Lost Chicken Mine, at mile 69 of the Taylor Highway, east-central Alaska. Tephra samples collected from gold mine section above the road, on high terrace of Fortymile River, not from mining exposures below the road in the valley. Coordinates provided as degrees/minutes and converted to decimal degrees. Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83.
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References Cited

[1] Fission-track ages of late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Yukon Territory and Alaska, 1982

Naeser, N. D., Westgate, J. A., Hughes, O. L., and Pewe, T. L., 1982, Fission-track ages of late Cenozoic distal tephra beds in the Yukon Territory and Alaska: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences [Journal Canadien des Sciences de la Terre], v. 19, n. 11, p. 2167-2178.

[2] A contribution to the Pleistocene geochronology of Alaska and the Yukon Territory: fission-track age of distal tephra units, 1978

Briggs, N. D., and Westgate, J. A., 1978, A contribution to the Pleistocene geochronology of Alaska and the Yukon Territory: fission-track age of distal tephra units: in Short papers of the fourth international conference, geochronology, cosmochronology, isotope geology, 1978, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-0701, p. 49-52.

[3] Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska, 2003

Matthews, J.V., Westgate, J.A., Ovenden, L., Carter, D.L., and Fouch, T., 2003, Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine: new information on the late Pliocene environment of east central Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 60, n. 1, p. 9-18.