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Lab number
GSC-2023
Material dated
beaver-gnawed willow wood; bois de saule rongé par des castors
Taxa dated
Salix sp. (id. by L.D. Wilson)
Locality
an island in the Eskimo Lakes, 3 m asl, Northwest Territories
Map sheet
107 D/05
Submitter
V.N. Rampton
Date submitted
February 18, 0098
Measured Age
9180 ± 90
Normalized Age
9180 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
the base of a 2 m thick peat unit on the north side of an island, overlying sand, from the base of a thermokarst basin on an outwash plain
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Castor canadensis (gnaw-marks on wood)
Comments
NiTl-VP: GSC-2023 is consistent with other dates from thermokarst basins on this outwash plain, and it establishes the early Holocene presence of the beaver somewhat north of its modern range.

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