Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA
Holocene tephrostratigraphy in Alaska provides independent chronology and stratigraphic correlation in a region where reworked old (Holocene) organic carbon can significantly distort radiocarbon chronologies. Here we present new glass chemistry and chronology for Holocene tephras preserved in three...
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ftunivnewcastle:oai:eprint.ncl.ac.uk:237345 2023-05-15T15:46:57+02:00 Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA Monteath A van Hardenbroek M Davies L Froese D Langdon PG Xu X Edwards ME application/pdf https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=237345/B47D46BB-812A-407C-AB76-41E2EE2B39F2.pdf&pub_id=237345 unknown Cambridge University Press Quaternary Research Article ftunivnewcastle 2020-06-11T23:36:33Z Holocene tephrostratigraphy in Alaska provides independent chronology and stratigraphic correlation in a region where reworked old (Holocene) organic carbon can significantly distort radiocarbon chronologies. Here we present new glass chemistry and chronology for Holocene tephras preserved in three Alaskan lakes: one in the eastern interior, and two in the southern Brooks Range. Tephra beds in the eastern interior lake-sediment core are correlated with the White River Ash and the Hayes tephra set H (~4200-3700 cal yr BP), while an additional discrete tephra bed is likely from the Aleutian Arc-Alaska Peninsula. Cryptotephras (non-visible tephras) found in the Brooks Range include the informally named "Ruppert tephra" (~2700-2300 cal yr BP), and the Aniakchak caldera-forming event II tephra (CFE II; ~3600 cal yr BP). A third underlying Brooks Range cryptotephra is chemically indistinguishable from the Aniakchak CFE II tephra (4070-3760 cal yr BP) and is likely to be from an earlier eruption of the Aniakchak volcano. Article in Journal/Newspaper Brooks Range Alaska Newcastle University Library ePrints Service Hayes ENVELOPE(-64.167,-64.167,-66.833,-66.833) |
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Holocene tephrostratigraphy in Alaska provides independent chronology and stratigraphic correlation in a region where reworked old (Holocene) organic carbon can significantly distort radiocarbon chronologies. Here we present new glass chemistry and chronology for Holocene tephras preserved in three Alaskan lakes: one in the eastern interior, and two in the southern Brooks Range. Tephra beds in the eastern interior lake-sediment core are correlated with the White River Ash and the Hayes tephra set H (~4200-3700 cal yr BP), while an additional discrete tephra bed is likely from the Aleutian Arc-Alaska Peninsula. Cryptotephras (non-visible tephras) found in the Brooks Range include the informally named "Ruppert tephra" (~2700-2300 cal yr BP), and the Aniakchak caldera-forming event II tephra (CFE II; ~3600 cal yr BP). A third underlying Brooks Range cryptotephra is chemically indistinguishable from the Aniakchak CFE II tephra (4070-3760 cal yr BP) and is likely to be from an earlier eruption of the Aniakchak volcano. |
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Monteath A van Hardenbroek M Davies L Froese D Langdon PG Xu X Edwards ME |
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Monteath A van Hardenbroek M Davies L Froese D Langdon PG Xu X Edwards ME Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA |
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Monteath A van Hardenbroek M Davies L Froese D Langdon PG Xu X Edwards ME |
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Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA |
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Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA |
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Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA |
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Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA |
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Chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern Alaska, USA |
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chronology and glass chemistry of tephra and cryptotephra horizons from lake sediments in northern alaska, usa |
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Cambridge University Press |
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https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=237345/B47D46BB-812A-407C-AB76-41E2EE2B39F2.pdf&pub_id=237345 |
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ENVELOPE(-64.167,-64.167,-66.833,-66.833) |
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Brooks Range Alaska |
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Brooks Range Alaska |
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