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Canada / NT / MjTw-? (Rat River) / GSC-159
- Lab number
- GSC-159
- Material dated
- beaver-gnawed wood; bois rongé par des castors
- Locality
- west side of Rat River, west of Mackenzie River, Northwest Territories
- Map sheet
- 106 M/12
- Submitter
- O.L. Hughes
- Date submitted
- July 5, 0099
- Measured Age
- 0
- Normalized Age
- 0
- δ13C (per mil)
- -25.0
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- near the base of a 40-ft section of silt with organic layers, overlying till over gravel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Castor canadensis
- Additional information
- Harington (2003: 350) lists this date as GSC-120.
- Comments
- MjTw-VP, Rat River: Although no till was seen above the silt that contained the dated wood, the upper part of the section is poorly exposed, and evidence from the surrounding area suggests that Laurentide ice covered the site and extended several kilometres westward during classical Wisconsinan time.