Canada ; Dating ; Glaciation ; K/Ar dating ; Palaeo-environment ; Pleistocene ; Quaternary ; Tephrochronology ; Thermoluminescence ; Yukon
The late Cenozoic deposits of central Yukon contain numerous distal tephra beds, derived from vents in the Wrangell Mountains and Aleutian arc-Alaska Peninsula region. The AA. use a few of these tephra beds to gain a better understanding
Here, the AA. report on plant macrofossil analyses for 3 late Pleistocene rodent middens associated with Dawson tephra at 2 sites in the Klondike gold fields of west-central Yukon Territory. The detail afforded by these middens permits