Late-Pleistocene Environments of North Pacific North America: An Elaboration of Late-Glacial and Postglacial Climatic, Physiographic, and Biotic Changes. Calvin J. Heusser. American Geographical Society, Special Publication No. 35, New York, 1960. xxiii + 308 pp., frontis., 49 figs., 25 pls., 10 tables, glossary, index. $4.00 paper, $6.00 cloth.

1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex D. Krieger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
Special Publication

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dates of Peats from North Pacific North America

Radiocarbon ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin J. Heusser
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Kodiak Island ◽  
Sample Deposition ◽  
Peat Stratigraphy

Ages are presented for 17 late-Pleistocene peat samples from sections that range from Karluk on Kodiak Island, Alaska to Port Orford, Oregon. Pollen and peat stratigraphy of the sections is used to interpret the environments prevailing at and since the time of sample deposition. The late-glacial at more southerly Pacific coastal Alaskan sites is dated at ca. 10,800 b.p. and the postglacial at ca. 10,000 b.p. At northerly coastal sites these intervals begin somewhat later. Regression rates for sealevel are given for a number of sites along this coast. Sample ages from two Oregon lakes suggest eustatic transgression ca. 5000 b.p. during the Hypsithermal interval.

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