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- Lab number
- TO-476
- Material dated
- narwhal bone collagen; collagène osseux de narval
- Taxa dated
- Monodon monoceros tusk
- Locality
- 24 km east-northeast of Cape Woods, 34 m asl, Wotton Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 340 F/06
- Submitter
- D.J.A. Evans
- Date submitted
- July 17, 0098
- Normalized Age
- 7240 ± 50
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- soliflucted glaciomarine diamicton
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Monodon monoceros
- Additional information
- The lab reported an age of 6830 +/- 50, corrected to C-13 = 0 parts per mil. The normalized age was calculated by adding 410 years to the mean.
- Comments
- UbHq-VP: The marine limit is at 52 m, and the sample was at 34 m asl. Deglaciation occurred after 8500 BP. The site is 1 km north of a floating glacier terminus. The tusk was 125 cm long, and excess sample is preserved at the Canadian Museum of Nature.