Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Archaeology of the Northern Yukon Interior, Eastern Beringia. I. Bonnet Plume Basin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19263527 |
|---|---|
| Authors | O L Hughes, C R Harington (0000-0002-6526-4053), Jan A Janssens, John Matthews (0000-0003-3787-1443), Jr J V Matthews, Richard E Morlan, Nat Rutter, N W Rutter, Charles E Schweger |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ARCTIC (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0843 • E-ISSN: 1923-1245 |
| Publisher | The Arctic Institute of North America (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14430/arctic2538 |
| OpenAlex | W1969415263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
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 limits farther north along the Richardson Mountains but also for non-glaciated basins in the Porcupine drainage to the northwest. The late Wisconsinan glacial episode in Bonnet Plume Basin is here named the Hungry Creek advance after the principal Quaternary section in the basin. Sediments beneath the till at Hungry Creek have produced well-produced pollen, plant macrofossils, insects, and a few vertebrate remains. The plant and invertebrate fossils provide a detailed, if temporally restricted, record of a portion of the mid-Wisconsinan interstadial, while the vertebrate fossils include the oldest Yukon specimen of the Yukon wild ass. Some of the mid-Wisconsinan sediments have also yielded distinctive chert flakes that represent either a previously unreported product of natural fracturing or a by-product of stone tool manufacture by human residents of Bonnet Plume Basin. In addition to presenting new data on these diverse but interrelated topics, this paper serves as an introduction to a series of reports that will treat in turn the Upper Pleistocene record of Bluefish, Old Crow, and Bell basins, respectively
Archaeology · Beringia · Geography · Glacial period · Holocene · Macrofossil · Pleistocene · Quaternary · Structural basin · Archaeology and Natural History · Geological Studies and Exploration · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology
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Late Pleistocene Climates of Beringia, Based on Analysis of Fossil Beetles
Late Wisconsinan and Holocene History of the Laurentide Ice Sheet
Toward the Definition of Criteria for the Recognition of Artificial Bone Alterations
Large mammals in Lower Rampart Cave 1, Alaska
The Pleistocene Archaeology of Beringia
New Radiocarbon-Dated Vertebrate Fossils from Herschel Island
Faunal and Archaeological Remains as Evidence of Climate Change in Freezing Caverns, Yukon Territory, Canada
Paleoethological Reconstruction and Taphonomy of Equus lambei from the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory, Canada
Plant Macrofossils Associated with an Early Holocene Beaver Dam in Interior Alaska
A Community-Based Approach to Mapping Gwich'in Observations of Environmental Changes in the Lower Peel River Watershed, NT
Middle Pleistocene (MIS 7) to Holocene fossil insect assemblages from the Old Crow basin, northern Yukon, Canada
The last (Koy-Yukon) interglaciation in the Yukon
Richardson Mountains, Yukon-Northwest territories
Radiocarbon Dates from the Ice-Free Corridor
| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2014 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |