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Science 13 September 1963:
Vol. 141. no. 3585, pp. 1044 - 1045
DOI: 10.1126/science.141.3585.1044
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Emerged Holocene South American Shorelines

Horace G. Richards 1 and Wallace Broecker 2

1 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2 Lamont Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York

A pelecypod from the Salina beds of northern Peru at elevation 4.5 m ( 15 ft) shows a date of about 3000 years B. P., while a gastropod from elevation 22.5 m (75 ft) was older than 30,000 years B. P. A pelecypod from the island of Tierrabomba, near Cartagena, Colombia, at elevation 2.7 m ( 9 ft) gave a date of about 2850 years, while a pelecypod from Comodoro Rividavia, Argentina, at elevation 9 m ( 30 ft) gave a date of 5350 years B. P.


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