Late-glacial Coleoptera and the paleoclimate at Hirtles, Nova Scotia

• Published in: Atlantic Geology
• Main Author: Miller, Randall F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Atlantic Geoscience Society 1995
• Subjects: Canada; Bor; toundra; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ag/article/view/2101

Paleoentomological studies of Coleoptera from a late-glacial site at Hirtles, Nova Scotia, Canada, produced a tundra-treeline to northern boreal assemblage during the interval 12,300 to 11,700 years B.P. This is one of the oldest late-glacial buried organic deposits in the Maritime Provinces of Cana...