A late-Middle Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stage 6) vegetated surface buried by Old Crow tephra at the Palisades, interior Alaska

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Reyes, A.V., Jensen, B.J.L., Zazula, G.D., Ager, T.A., Kuzmina, S., La Farge, C., Froese, D.G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1907; Geology; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306; Global and Planetary Change; /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water; SDG 14 - Life Below Water; Palisades; The Palisades; Yukon; Old Crow; permafrost; Tundra; Yukon river; Alaska; Beringia
• Online Access: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/a-latemiddle-pleistocene-marine-isotope-stage-6-vegetated-surface-buried-by-old-crow-tephra-at-the-palisades-interior-alaska(04411cb8-a6fa-42f6-be80-43c211cd1bb2).html; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.003; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-76649103362&md5=f70448085090e3b78f5e922cf94cc61a

A 40 cm thick primary bed of Old Crow tephra (131 ± 11 ka), an important stratigraphic marker in eastern Beringia, directly overlies a vegetated surface at Palisades West, on the Yukon River in central Alaska. Analyses of insect, bryophyte, and vascular plant macrofossils from the buried surface and...