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SAMPLE INFO : UT1065
Sample ID:UT1065
Station ID:UT1065
Latitude:63.7472
Longitude:-138.6958
Datum:NAD83
Date Sampled:1990-01-01
Sample Type 1:Tephra Fall
Text Description:
No data on deposit thickness. Discontinuous pods of tephra in 1.5 m of well sorted sand and silt overlain by 2.5 m of intercalated lenses of sand, gravel and silt with wood. Pumice, rare blocky shards, and rare bubble-wall shards.

References:
Characterization, identity, distribution, and source of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike District of the Yukon, Canada
Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America
A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory
Dating Early and Middle (Reid) Pleistocene glaciations in central Yukon by tephrochronology

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