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Canada / NU / RcHw-?-3 (Cape Storm) / GSC-980
- Lab number
- GSC-980
- Field number
- BS-79-67
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus
- Locality
- 4.8 km north-northeast of Cape Storm, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 49 B/05
- Submitter
- W. Blake, Jr
- Date submitted
- May 16, 0092
- Normalized Age
- 980 ± 60
- δ13C (per mil)
- -15.8
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- gravel surface and vegetation, from first swale behind modern beach, 1.5 m asl
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- 364 g was treated with 3N HCl to remove carbonate; NaOH leach omitted; 30 g burned.
- Comments
- RcHw-VP-3, Cape Storm: A whale vertebra, 20 cm in diameter, was partially imbedded in vegetation and beach shingle. Dates were obtained with and without performing a leach with NaOH.