Palaeoecology of marine Pleistocene Mollusca, Nova Scotia

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Wagner, Frances J. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1977
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Long Island; Breton Island; Nantucket
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e77-119; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e77-119

Fossiliferous Pleistocene sediments are present in western mainland Nova Scotia and on Cape Breton Island. Two ages of deposits are represented: post-glacial in the Minas Basin area and mid-Wisconsinan in the Yarmouth–Digby area and Cape Breton. The mid-Wisconsinan age is based on both radiocarbon a...