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- Lab number
- GSC-1135
- Field number
- CMC-311 (depth: 2 to
- Material dated
- marine shell fragments
- Taxa dated
- Mytilus edulis (identified by W. Blake, Jr.)
- Locality
- exposed in borrow pit northwest of school, on south side of stream at North West River, Labrador, Newfoundland
- Map sheet
- 013 F/09
- Submitter
- W.W. Fitzhugh IV
- Date submitted
- June 10, 0095
- Measured Age
- 5320 ± 170
- Normalized Age
- 5720 ± 170
- δ13C (per mil)
- 0.28
- Significance
- sea level change, emergence; archaeological??
- Context
- bed of comminuted shells overlain and underlain by stratified sand and gravel
- Additional information
- below reworked surface at end moraine (Blake, 1956)
- Comments
- GSC-1135 Lowdon, et al., 1971 (p. 263) gives date as 5330 ± 170 Comments (W.W. Fitzhugh IV and W. Blake, Jr.): Dates time during emergence when sea was truncating surface of moraine at North West River, and when Grand Lake to the northwest was marine.