Olympia Interstadial: vegetation, landscape history, and paleoclimatic implications of a mid-Wisconsinan (MIS3) nonglacial sequence from southwest British Columbia, Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Hebda, Richard J., Lian, Olav B., Hicock, Stephen R.
• Other Authors: Fisher, Timothy G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2016
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Canada; British Columbia; Seymour; Parkland; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0122; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/cjes-2015-0122; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjes-2015-0122

Lithostratigraphic, 14 C, and palynologic analyses of peat and silty peat at three nearby sites reveal a 25 000 year vegetation and climate history of the Olympia Interstade for the Fraser Lowland, British Columbia, 300 km within the southern limit of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. At Lynn Valley, Polyp...