Late Quaternary vegetation of the Aleutian Islands, southwestern Alaska

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Author: Heusser, Calvin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1990
• Subjects: Plant Science; Pacific; Atka; Adak; Attu Island; Attu; glaciers; Tundra; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b90-168; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b90-168

Late Quaternary vegetational history of the Aleutian Islands is interpreted from fossil pollen and spore stratigraphy and radiocarbon chronology of sections of mires on the islands of Attu, Adak, Atka, and Umnak. Mires postdate the withdrawal of ice-age glaciers between approximately 12 000 and 10 0...