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- Lab number
- GSC-14422
- Field number
- SF-70-2
- Material dated
- wood; bois
- Locality
- "Galt Island Bluff" on the north bank of the South Saskatchewan River, about 1 km west of Redcliff, Alberta
- Map sheet
- 072 L/02
- Submitter
- A.M. Stalker
- Date submitted
- July 10, 2004
- Measured Age
- 38700 ± 1100
- Normalized Age
- 38700 ± 1100
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- silt and clay with fine organic material and abundant vertebrate fauna
- Associated taxa
- see GSC-1442
- Additional information
- LSD 13 sec. 8, tp. 13, rge. 6, W 4th mer.
- Comments
- Galt Island Bluff, EaOq-VP: The fauna at this site represents a fairly warm climate. The wood bearing unit is overlain by about 15 m of stream and lake sand, silt, and clay, which is partly varved towards the top, and 15 m of the youngest till in the region. Elsewhere the floodplain silt and clay unit is overlain by two tills. GSC-1442 was made up of wood pieces that were >1 cm long, whereas GSC-1442-2 included some material of this size as well as some smaller pieces. Most of the pieces appeared to be bark. A.M. Stalker comments that sample GSC-1442-2 provides a maximum age for overlying till.