Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Archaeology of the Northern Yukon Interior, Eastern Beringia. I. Bonnet Plume Basin

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Hughes, O.L., Harington, C.R., Janssens, J.A., Matthews, Jr., J.V., Morlan, R.E., Rutter, N.W., Schweger, C.E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1981
• Subjects: Palaeoecology; Palaeontology; Palynology; Pleistocene epoch; Sediments (Geology); Stratigraphy; Glaciation; Bonnet Plume River region; Yukon; Bonnet Plume River; Richardson Mountains; Arctic; Old Crow; Beringia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65590

New stratigraphic and chronometric data show that Bonnet Plume Basin, in northeastern Yukon Territory, was glaciated in late Wisconsinan time rather than during an earlier advance of Laurentide ice. This conclusion has important ramifications not only for the interpretation of all-time glacial limit...