Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at an oxbow lake situated at the lower Nottawasaga River, southern Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12653744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary J Thornbush (0000-0001-9354-2797, Lakehead University, corresponding author), Joseph R Desloges (0000-0001-8446-3034, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4103 • E-ISSN: 1749-6314 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/146141010x12640787648216 |
| OpenAlex | W2018715926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
The purpose of this investigation at the lower Nottawasaga River in southern Ontario, Canada, was to reconstruct the impact of base level on fluvial stability and human occupation during the Holocene in a topographically confined section, where the river cuts through the Edenvale Moraine. Three cores were extracted from an oxbow lake (Doran Lake) and a ground-penetrating radar survey was executed in its vicinity to study wider subsurface alluvial architecture. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the Nottawasaga River became entrenched in the Edenvale Moraine early in the Holocene, with base-level lowering in the Lake Huron basin, and that Doran Lake formed towards the middle Holocene as a meander cutoff when water levels in the Lake Huron basin increased, leading to a period of fluvial instability, enhanced flow and floodplain aggradation. Fluctuating lake levels would have affected human settlement as well as the preservation and visibility of archaeological remains predominantly through vertical accretion
Accretion (finance · Aggradation · Alluvium · Archaeology · Channel (broadcasting · Floodplain · Fluvial · Geography · Geomorphology · Glacial period · Holocene · Hydrology (agriculture · Meander (mathematics · Moraine · Physical geography · Plateau (mathematics · Radiocarbon dating · Structural basin · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes · Landslides and related hazards · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Geology · Paleontology
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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