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Lab number
S-2667
Field number
84-DCA-510
Material dated
whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
Taxa dated
Balaena mysticetus vertebra (id. by D.E.C. Green)
Locality
3.6 m asl, Barrow Strait, northeastern Russell Island, Nunavut
Map sheet
68 E/02
Submitter
D.E.C. Green
Date submitted
August 21, 0098
Measured Age
0
Normalized Age
0
δ13C (per mil)
-15.0
Significance
palaeobiology, anomalous, young; paléobiologie
Context
gravel on a raised beach, covered by moss, overlooking Barrow Strait
Associated taxa
Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
Comments
QaLf-VP: According to A.S. Dyke, S-2667 is anomalously young for this elevation; the age should be >0.9 ka BP. Excess sample returned to Dyke by the laboratory consisted of very porous bone with humic material filling the pores.

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