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Science 8 December 1967:
Vol. 158. no. 3806, pp. 1301 - 1307
DOI: 10.1126/science.158.3806.1301
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Freshwater Peat on the Continental Shelf

K. O. Emery 1, R. L. Wigley 2, Alexandra S. Bartlett 3, Meyer Rubin 4, and E. S. Barghoorn 5

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
2 U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
3 Department of Biology and Botanical Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
4 Radiocarbon Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
5 Department of Biology and Botanical Museum, Harvard University

Freshwater peats from the continental shelf off northeastern United States contain the same general pollen sequence as peats from ponds that are above sea level and that are of comparable radiocarbon ages. These peats indicate that during glacial times of low sea level terrestrial vegetation covered the region that is now the continental shelf in an unbroken extension from the adjacent land areas to the north and west.


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