Late Pleistocene mammoth remains from Coastal Maine, USA

Quaternary Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-288

  Hoyle, B Gary ^a   Fisher, Daniel C ^b   Borns Jr , Harold W ^a,c   Churchill Dickson, Lisa L ^d   Dorion, Christopher C ^d   Weddle, Thomas K ^e  

^a Maine State Museum   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d Maine Geological Survey ^*  (United States)

^e Maine Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Glaciomarine sediments; Maine; Mammuthus primigenius; Pleistocene; Presumpscot Formation; Relative sea level; Woolly mammoth

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; REGRESSION;

MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BROSME BROSME; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; PORTLANDIA; PORTLANDIA ARCTICA;

EID: 2342531808     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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