Malacological insights into the marine ecology and changing climate of the late Pleistocene – early Holocene Queen Charlotte Islands archipelago, western Canada, and implications for early peoples

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Hetherington, Renée, Reid, Robert G.B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2003
• Subjects: Ice Sheet; Serripes groenlandicus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z03-024; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z03-024

The first intertidal species to colonize the Queen Charlotte Islands archipelago along the northeastern Pacific margin of Canada after the last glacial maximum (LGM) was Macoma nasuta at 13 210 ± 80 14 C years BP. Prior to this time, molluscs were likely excluded where grounded ice extended from the...