# **************************************************************** # ** Please acknowledge the contributors, the International ** # ** Multiproxy Paleofire Database, and and the North American ** # ** Pollen Database when using these data. ** # **************************************************************** # # Site name: Sagehen Marsh # Place: USA:Colorado # Latitude: 37.28.26N ( 37.473889) # Longitude: 108.30.14W (-108.503889) # Elevation(m): 2085 # Sigle: SAGEHEN1 # Entity name: core I # Contact person: Petersen, K.L. # Entity notes: Core is discontinuous, cores II & III separate entities. # # Chron name: NAPD 1 # Age model: linear interpolation # Age bounds: 0 - 250 # Chron notes: Chron uses top, four historical dates, and two pollen # stratigraphic dates (see Petersen 1985). # # Age basis: # Depth Thk Age AgeUp AgeLo RCode # 0.0 0 0 0 0 TOP # 25.0 1 30 32 28 OTH # 35.0 1 54 56 52 OTH # 39.0 1 68 70 66 OTH # 44.0 1 93 95 91 OTH # 50.0 1 133 135 132 POL # 60.0 1 248 250 246 POL # # Publications: Petersen, K.L. 1985. Palynology in Montezuma County, # southwestern Colorado: the local history of the Pinyon Pine # (Pinus edulis). AASP Contribution Series No. 16:47-62. # # Petersen, K.L. 1994. A warm and wet Little Climatic Optimum # and a cold and dry Little Ice Age in the southern Rocky # Mountains, U.S.A. Climatic Change 26:243-269. # # Petersen, K.L. 1984. Man and environment in the Dolores # River Valley, SE Colorado: some pollen evidence. American # Quaternary Association, Eighth Meeting, Program and # Abstracts, 13-15 August 1984, University of Colorado, # Boulder, p102. # # Petersen, K.L. 1985. The history of the marsh in Sagehen # Flats: the pollen record. Pages 229-238 in K.L. Petersen, # V.L. Clay, M.H. Matthews, and S.W. Neusius, compilers. # Chapter 22. Dolores Archeological Program: Studies in # Environmental Archaeology, U.S. Department of Interior, # Bureau of Reclamation, Science and Engineering Center, # Denver, Colorado, USA. # # Pollen counts from this site are available via the North American Pollen # Database at: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/napd.html # 1 Depth (cm) 2 Age (YrBP) 3 Charcoal fragments (25-50 µm) 4 Charcoal fragments (50-100 µm) 5 Charcoal fragments (>100 µm) 0.5,0.6,190,30,10 5,6,118,99,10 10,12,142,36,1 15,18,160,5,1 25,30,1210,237,210 30,42,289,13,1 35,54,304,13,1 39,68,452,10,7 42,83,1057,22,10 50,133,423,20,6 60,248,547,91,30