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- Lab number
- GSC-2298
- Field number
- HH71-21-3
- Material dated
- beaver-gnawed poplar wood; bois de peuplier rongé par des castors
- Taxa dated
- Populus sp. (11.7 g, id. by L.D. Farley-Gill)
- Locality
- 275 m asl, Mackenzie drainage, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 106 O/03
- Submitter
- O.L. Hughes
- Date submitted
- February 20, 0098
- Measured Age
- 9560 ± 120
- Normalized Age
- 9560 ± 120
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- base of an organic silt lens, 2.4 m thick, at the top of the headwall of a retrogressive thaw flow slide, disconformably overlying glaciolacustrine clay
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Castor canadensis (inferred from gnaw-marks on wood)
- Comments
- MgTj-VP, Grandview Hills: Hughes commented that the organic silt is interpreted to be filling in a thermokarst pond developed by thawing of subjacent ice-rich clay.