Accelerator dating of a mixed assemblage of late Pleistocene insect fossils from the Lamb Spring site, Colorado

Auteurs :
ELLIAS, S. A.
TOOLIN, L. J.

Description :
The Lamb Spring insect fauna is a type of assemblage, containing both prairie and alpine tundra species. Accelerator dating of insect fossil specimens from the two ecological groups helped resolve the paleoecological problem. The dates reveal that what appeared to be an ecological mixing was probably a taphonomic problem, wherein full-glacial-age fossils were probably reworked into latest Wisconsin sediments.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Quaternary research, issn : 0033-5894, 1990, vol. 33, n°. 1, p. 122-126, Références bibliographiques : 13 réf.

Date :
1990

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, San Diego, CA, Elsevier