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Text Description: Wipsy, white (2.5Y7/2), discontinuous tephra with diffuse upper and lower contacts interbedded with massive, silver (2.5Y6/3) silt with minor charcoal flecks, oxidation nodules and wispy organic patches. Occurs as pods with a maximum thickness of 4 mm and numerous silt partings; occurs above the LW tephra. References:  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 |
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