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SAMPLE INFO : UT1002
Sample ID:UT1002
Station ID:Birch_Hill
Latitude:64.85
Longitude:-147.56
Datum:NAD83
Sample Type 1:Tephra Fall
Text Description:
10 cm thick. Thick, continuous bed within the Upper Gold Hill Loess (Berger, 2003).

References:
Luminescence chronology of late Pleistocene loess-Paleosol and tephra sequences near Fairbanks, Alaska
Late Pliocene Dawson Cut forest bed and new tephrochronological findings in the Gold Hill Loess, east-central Alaska
A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory
Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6

GEOCHEM DATA
StationIDLatitudeLongitudeGeologistDateVisitedAge InfoVolcanoEruptionLocation DescriptionText DescriptionSample IDSample Type 1Sample Type 2Final UnitMaterialCoeffSiO2TiO2Al2O3FeOTMnOMgOCaONa2OK2OP2O5Total-majorsREF majorsMETH majorsFe2O3/Fe203T origFeO/FeOT origVolatiles csvMETH volatilesCsRbBaSrLaCePrNdSmEuGdTbDyHoErTmYbLuYZrNbHfTaPbThUScVCrFeCoNiCuZnGaMoAsNaKRef trace1METH trace1RbBaSrLaCeNdSmEuGdDyErYbLuYZrNbPbThUScTiVCrNiCuZnGaRef trace2METH trace2Light csvHalogen csvother major csvother lile csvother ree csvother hfse csvother hpe csvother tm csvother misc csv
Birch_Hill64.85-147.56Unknown, Unknown 124000 ± 10000 known unit; 10271; Age is approximate. Revised glass fission-track age with re-calibration; four Old Crow Tephra sample glass fission-track ages (UT1434, UT613, UT501, UT613).Location coordinates from Preece et al. (2011). Datum not specified, assumed to be NAD83.10 cm thick. Thick, continuous bed within the Upper Gold Hill Loess (Berger, 2003).UT1002Tephra FallCumulateGlass 75.59 0.28 13.04 1.71 0.06 0.29 1.48 3.6 3.69 10271EMP1.71Cl=0.28; H2O=3.49EMP

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