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Text Description: Gold Run tephra lies within loess and can be traced for 50 m across the section. In places, the tephra bed has been deformed into many pods, some as thick as 10 cm, as a result of loading following its deposition. From Preece et al. (2011): n.d. on deposit thickness; pumice and blocky grains; in organic silt overlying Dominion Creek Gravel; field name 1802a References:  Gold Run Tephra: a middle Pleistocene stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental marker across west-central Yukon Territory, Canada A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory |
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