Climate and vegetation of the Selandian-Thanetian Paleocene Sagwon Section, Northern Alaska (Palaeolatitude 85°N)

• Main Authors: Spicer, R. A., Daly, R. J., Jolley, D. W., Herman, A. B., Ahlberg, A., Moiseeva, M.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Prince Creek; Paleo-Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/26581/

The Paleogene of the high paleo-Arctic provides valuable insights into the vegetation dynamics of one of the most climatically sensitive regions on Earth for past, present and future environmental change scenarios. At Sagwon Bluffs, (69°23’N, 148°43’W) Northern Alaska (Fig. 1), combined sedimentolog...