The Dawson Cut Forest Bed in the Fairbanks area, Alaska, is about two million years old☆

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Westgate, John A., Preece, Shari J., Péwé, Troy L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2003
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Palisades; The Palisades; Yukon; Dawson; Yukon river; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0033-5894(03)00061-9; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589403000619?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589403000619?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400012217

Abstract The Dawson Cut Forest Bed lies in the lower part of thick, late Cenozoic loess deposits in the Fairbanks area. It is associated with several distal tephra beds that provide age control and offer the opportunity of its recognition elsewhere in central Alaska. EC tephra (named herein) occurs...