New radiocarbon-dated vertebrate fossils from Herschel Island: Implications for the palaeoenvironments and glacial chronology of the beaufort sea coastlands

Arctic

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-280

  Zazula, Grant D ^a   Gregory Hare, P ^a   Storer, John E ^b  

^a Government of Yukon   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beaufort shelf; Beringia; Buckland glaciation; Chronology; Fossils; Herschel island; Mammals; Palaeontology; Pleistocene; Yukon

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COASTAL PLAIN; FOSSIL; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; MAMMAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PEAT; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CANADA; HERSCHEL ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

BISON PRISCUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS SP.; MAMMALIA; MAMMUT AMERICANUM; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349550017     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic147     Document Type: Article

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