Open AccessTransport, sorting, and reworking of late Wisconsinan plant macrofossils from Lake Erie, Canada
Author(s) -
WARNER BARRY G.,
BARNETT PETER J.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1986.tb00939.x
Subject(s) - macrofossil , geology , sorting , paleontology , stadial , shore , assemblage (archaeology) , pleistocene , oceanography , holocene , computer science , programming language
Stratigraphic, sedimentological, and plant macrofossil studies on proglacial lacustrine and deltaic sequences dating from the Mackinaw Interstadial on the north shore of Lake Erie, Canada, indicate long‐distance transport, selective sorting and reworking of the plant fossils. Transport, sorting, and reworking may make detailed paleoclimatic indices irrelevant and may account for incongruent phytogeographic indicators in the fossil assemblage. Details of the stratigraphic and sedimentological setting of the study site and the state of preservation of the fossils should be considered more carefully as aids to the interpretation of macrofossil assemblages.