Age of a Widespread Layer of Volcanic Ash in the Southwestern Yukon Territory

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Stuiver, Minze, Borns, Harold W., Denton, George H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1964
• Subjects: Composition; Loess; Minerals; Pyroclastics; Radiocarbon dating; Recent epoch; Kluane Lake region; Yukon; White River region; Alaska/Yukon; Tepee Lake region; Kaskawulsh Glacier; Kluane Lake; Arctic; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66558

Radiocarbon dates pertaining to a widespread layer of volcanic ash in the southwestern Yukon Territory are here reported. The volcanic ash generally occurs in lacustrine sediments and in peat and loess deposited during the Little Ice Age and thus affords a valuable marker horizon for correlating the...