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SAMPLE INFO : UA1877
Sample ID:UA1877
Station ID:Halfway_House
Latitude:64.735
Longitude:-148.4594
Datum:NAD83
Sample Type 1:Tephra Fall
 Text Description:
Predominantly chunky shards and frothy pumice that is often microlitic. Some platy shards. Major and minor minerals: plagioclase and orthopyroxene. Trace minerals: clinopyroxene (?), Fe-Ti oxides.

References:
Late Pleistocene and Holocene tephrostratigraphy of interior Alaska and Yukon: Key beds and chronologies over the past 30,000 years

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