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Lab number
U-2510
Field number
BS-70-55
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
probably Balaena mysticetus mandible? (438.5 g)
Locality
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
49 B/05
Submitter
W. Blake, Jr
Date submitted
July 22, 0098
Normalized Age
9600 ± 120
δ13C (per mil)
-17.2
Significance
palaeobiology; paléobiologie
Context
upper limit of a series of raised beaches, 118 m asl, embedded and frozen in place
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus?
Additional information
Collagen was obtained by the EDTA method.
Comments
RcHw-VP-1, Cape Storm: A whale bone, probably a mandible, was found imbedded and frozen in near the upper limit of a sequence of raised beaches 8.0 km north of Cape Storm, at an elevation of 118 m asl. A series of measurements under the laboratory number GSC-1496 employed different fractions of the bone prepared with various pre-treatment methods (see Lowdon and Blake, 1979: 42-43). An interlaboratory check was provided by the Uppsala laboratory (U-2510). Blake comments that the bone was not as well preserved as the whalebones at lower elevations on the beaches at Cape Storm, and most of the bone was characterized by a brownish stain. The outer parts of the bone were hard; the inner parts (softer and more porous) were removed in the field by an axe and, after the sample was air dried, by cutting with a band saw in the laboratory. Determination GSC-1496-3 has the smallest error term, and the age is identical to that of high level marine shells nearby. However, note that GSC-1496-4, the oldest determination in the GSC series, is closest to the age found by the Uppsala laboratory.

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