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SAMPLE INFO : Ahklun Mountains-3.1ka-Tephra_average
Sample ID:Ahklun Mountains-3.1ka-Tephra_average
Station ID:Ahklun_Mountains_Regional_Tephra
Latitude:59.6
Longitude:-160.39998
Datum:NAD83
Sample Type 1:Tephra Fall
Text Description:
Average composition of samples from Lone Spruce Pond (UA1964) and Waskey Lake (Levy et al. 2004) (UA1793). The bed comprises pure glass shards in both lakes, and an undated but possibly correlative bed is also found in Cascade Lake (neither analyzed nor dated).

References:
Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy, Ahklun Mountains, SW Alaska
Holocene glacier fluctuations, Waskey Lake, northeastern Ahklun Mountains, southwestern Alaska

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