- Usage in publication:
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- Dome Ash Bed*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Ash
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Alaska East-Central region
Summary:
Unit is named the Dome Ash Bed. Previously referred to informally as Eva ash (Pewe, 1952). Consists of white vitric ash. Thickness is 1 to 10 cm. Is [enclosed] within the Gold Hill Loess. Age is Pleistocene (late Illinoian).
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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