Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,300 14C years BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 242, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 253-286

  Zazula, Grant D ^a   Froese, Duane G ^b   Elias, Scott A ^c   Kuzmina, Svetlana ^c   La Farge, Catherine ^b   Reyes, Alberto V ^b   Sanborn, Paul T ^d   Schweger, Charles E ^b   Scott Smith, C A ^e   Mathewes, Rolf W ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beringia; Klondike; Paleoecology; Tephra

Indexed keywords

BERINGIA; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MEADOW; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEASON; TEPHRA; UPLAND REGION; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION TYPE;

CANADA; DAWSON; GOLDBOTTOM CREEK; KLONDIKE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; YUKON TERRITORY;

ALOPECURUS; ANEMONE; ANEMONE PATENS; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA FRIGIDA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CAREX; DESCHAMPSIA CESPITOSA; DRABA; ELYMUS; EQUISETALES; EQUISETUM; FESTUCA; HEXAPODA; KOBRESIA MYOSUROIDES; PHLOX HOODII; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO CANESCENS; POACEAE; POLYGONUM VIVIPARUM; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS PARRYII; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33947146634     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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