# **************************************************************** # ** Please acknowledge the contributors, the International ** # ** Multiproxy Paleofire Database, and and the North American ** # ** Pollen Database when using these data. ** # **************************************************************** # # Site name: Wilcox Pass # Place: CAN:Alberta # Latitude: 52.14.30N ( 52.241667) # Longitude: 117.13.00W (-117.216667) # Elevation(m): 2355 # Sigle: WILCOX # Entity name: # Contact person: Beaudoin, A.B. # # Radiocarbon dates: # Depth Thk Age SDup SDlo Lab no. Basis Material # 20.0 4 540 50 50 Beta-6806 L peat # 196.0 8 9600 305 305 GX-8785 G peat # # Chron name: NAPD 2 # Age model: linear interpolation # Age bounds: 0 - 10870 # Chron notes: Same as Chron 1 except 9600 radiocarbon date not used # because of possible contamination by old carbon. # # Age basis: # Depth Thk Age AgeUp AgeLo RCode # 0.0 0 -30 0 -30 TOP # 20.0 4 540 640 440 C14 # 174.0 2 6850 7000 6700 TEF # 232.0 16 10000 10500 9500 POL # # Publications: Beaudoin, A.B. 1984. Holocene environmental change in the # Sunwapta Pass Area, Jasper National Park. Dissertation. # University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. # # Beaudoin, A.B., and R.H. King. 1990. Late Quaternary # vegetation history of Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, # Alberta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology # 80:129-144. # # Beaudoin, A.B., and R.H. King. 1986. Using discriminant # function analysis to identify Holocene tephras based on # magnetite composition: a case study from the Sunwapta Pass # area, Jasper National Park. Canadian Journal of Earth # Sciences 23:804-812. # # Pollen counts and additional chronologies from this site are # available via the North American Pollen Database at: # http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/napd.html # 1 Depth (cm) 2 Age (YrBP) 3 Charcoal Fragment Count (12-20 µm) 4 Charcoal Fragment Count (>30 µm) 1,-2,145,53 8,198,113,128 16,426,469,216 24,704,58,54 32,1032,574,371 40,1359,365,147 48,1687,443,411 56,2015,1123,906 64,2343,554,600 72,2671,451,361 80,2998,492,240 88,3326,1429,530 96,3654,521,267 104,3982,318,13 112,4310,338,255 120,4637,435,372 128,4965,368,222 136,5293,398,153 144,5621,468,239 152,5949,372,125 160,6276,437,167 168,6604,304,226 176,6959,250,170 184,7393,527,189 192,7828,155,94 200,8262,135,79 208,8697,133,58 224,9566,484,191 232,10000,492,227 240,10434,2048,312 248,10869,1094,202