Earth:White River Ash
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Short description: 1,200-year-old ash deposit in North America
The White River Ash is a 1,500-year-old tephra deposit found in the southern part of the Yukon Territory, Canada and eastern Alaska.[1] The deposit is bilobate,[2] formed by two large (VEI 6) explosive eruptions from the stratovolcano of Mount Churchill that occurred around 850 AD and blanketed 340,000 km2 (130,000 sq mi).[3] While originally believed to only exist within North America, recent observations (2014) have found crypto-tephra from the eruption across northern Europe.
See also
- Volcanism of Canada
- Volcanism of Northern Canada
References
- ↑ Lerbekmo, J. F.; Campbell, F. A. (February 1969). "Distribution, composition, and source of the White River Ash, Yukon Territory". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 6 (1): 109–116. doi:10.1139/e69-011. ISSN 0008-4077. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/e69-011.
- ↑ Lerbekmo, J. F.; Campbell, F. A. (February 1969). "Distribution, composition, and source of the White River Ash, Yukon Territory". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 6 (1): 109–116. doi:10.1139/e69-011. ISSN 0008-4077. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/e69-011.
- ↑ "Evidence for winter eruption of the White River Ash (eastern lobe), Yukon Territory". CGRG Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology. The Canadian Geomorphology Research Group. 2000. Archived from the original on 2009-04-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20090408052616/http://cgrg.geog.uvic.ca/abstracts/WestEvidenceRhyodacitic.html. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
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