AVO tephra database

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1232

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  AVO tephra database

• Parent Project:

  AVO website and database

• Status:

  Complete

• Description:

  Project to make Alaska tephra data readily accessible in one searchable interface. Alaska tephra data have been dispersed in publications; over 600 publications are being reviewed for tephra sample or geochemical information for inclusion into the database.

• Project Date(s):

  2013 - 2018

• Primary Contact:

  Cameron, Cheryl E.

• DGGS section:

  Volcanology

• Project Participants:

  Cheryl E. Cameron, Janet R. Schaefer, Kristi L. Wallace, Seth F. Snedigar, Katherine M. Mulliken, Fiona I. Eberhardt

Publications

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RDF 2023-25

Loewen, M.W., Wallace, Kristi, Coombs, M.L., and Mulliken, K.M., 2024, Tephra samples and analyses from Cook Inlet source volcanoes and Anchor Point, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2023-25, 4 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31090

MP 174

Loewen, M.W., Wallace, K.L., Lubbers, Jordan, Ruth, Dawn, Izbekov, P.E., Larsen, J.F., and Graham, Nathan, 2023, Glass electron microprobe analyses methods, precision and accuracy for tephra studies in Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 174, 20 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31045

MP 165

Worden, A.K., Schaefer, J.R., and Mulliken, K.M., 2018, Tephra occurrence in Alaska: a map-based compilation of stratigraphic tephra data: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 165, 19 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30059

MP 164

Mulliken, K.M., Schaefer, J.R., and Cameron, C.E., 2018, Geospatial distribution of tephra fall in Alaska: a geodatabase compilation of published tephra fall occurrences from the Pleistocene to the present: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Miscellaneous Publication 164, 46 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29847

RDF 2017-9

Wallace, K.L., Hayden, L.A., and Neal, C.A., 2017, Major-element glass compositions of tephra from the circa 3.6 ka eruption of Aniakchak volcano, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2017-9, 9 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29777

Posters and Presentations

Mulliken, K.M. and others, 2017

Mulliken, K.M., Cameron, C.E., Crass, S.W., Schaefer, J.R., and Wallace, K.L., 2017, An update on the Alaska Tephra Database (poster): International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) 2017 Scientific Assembly, November 14-18, 2017: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/29746

Schaefer, J.R. and others, 2017

Schaefer, J.R., Mulliken, K.M., Cameron, C.E., and Wallace, K.L., 2017, Digitizing Alaska's ashfall record: a tephra geospatial database (poster): International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) 2017 Scientific Assembly, November 14-18, 2017: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/29747

Annual Reports

AR 2014-D

DGGS Staff, 2015, Volcanology FY15 project descriptions, in DGGS Staff, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2014: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2014-D, p. 68-74. https://doi.org/10.14509/29183

AR 2013-D

DGGS Staff, 2014, Volcanology FY14 project descriptions, in DGGS Staff, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2013: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2013-D, p. 66-75. https://doi.org/10.14509/27004