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Lab number
GSC-2022
Field number
FG-65-57a
Material dated
beaver-chewed poplar wood; bois de peuplier rongé par des castors
Taxa dated
Populus sp. (11.6 g, id. by L.D. Farley-Gill)
Locality
coastal bluff, 32 m asl, 5 km southeast of Sabine Point, Arctic coast, Yukon Territory
Map sheet
117 D/02
Submitter
V.N. Rampton
Date submitted
July 29, 0098
Measured Age
9940 ± 90
Normalized Age
9940 ± 90
δ13C (per mil)
-25.0
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
near the base of a 3 m-thick diamicton unit capping the coastal bluff, with interglacial sand below
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Castor canadensis
Comments
NgVe-VP, Sabine Point: Rampton comments that the presence of poplar wood, some of which appears to be beaver-chewed, at this locality indicates that conditions along the Yukon coastal plain were slightly warmer 9000 to 10,000 years ago than they are at present.

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