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From: Impact-related microspherules in Late Pleistocene Alaskan and Yukon “muck” deposits signify recurrent episodes of catastrophic emplacement

Figure 2

Schematic cross section of creek valley sediments near Fairbanks, Alaska22 showing stratigraphic relationships between primary loess (Gold Hill and Engineer Loess), retransported loess or “muck” (Goldstream and Ready Bullion Formations), forest beds (Dawson Cut, Eva, and Giddings), mass-wasting deposits (Tanana Formation), and gold-bearing gravel (Fox and Cripple Gravels; see Supplementary Information, “Quaternary stratigraphy”). Reproduced with permission of the Geological Society of America.

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