Postglacial vegetation history of Mitkof Island, Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Ager, Thomas A., Carrara, Paul E., Smith, Jane L., Anne, Victoria, Johnson, Joni
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2010
• Subjects: Archipelago; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2009.12.005; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589409001641?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589409001641?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400014897

An AMS radiocarbon-dated pollen record from a peat deposit on Mitkof Island, southeastern Alaska provides a vegetation history spanning ∼12,900 cal yr BP to the present. Late Wisconsin glaciers covered the entire island; deglaciation occurred > 15,400 cal yr BP. The earliest known vegetation to d...