Tundra Rodents in a Late Pleistocene Fauna from the Tofty Placer District, Central Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Repenning, C.A., Hopkins, D.M., Rubin, Meyer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1964
• Subjects: Energy budgets; Heat transmission; Movement; Ocean currents; Sea ice; Temporal variations; Winds; East Greenland Current; Arctic Ocean; Arctic; Greenland; Sullivan; Arctic ground squirrel; East Greenland; east greenland current; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66552

Describes remains of the arctic ground squirrel, collared and brown lemmings, and the narrow-skulled vole collected 1956-1961 in or near the Sullivan mining pit. Topography, vegetation, and mining history are outlined, as are the stratigraphy and age of the unconsolidated deposits in which the fossi...