Boreal and Western North American Plants in the Late Pleistocene of Vermont

Postglacial vegetational changes along an elevational gradient in the Adirondack Mountains (New York) : a study of plant macrofossils

“…Spruce was a local component of the tundra vegetation near Heart Lake (Fig. 6), which may have been similar to that inferred by Miller and Thompson (1979) for late-glacial northern Vermont. White spruce (Picea glauca) was probably the spruce species present at Heart Lake; dimensions of a cone bract from Zone HP-2.…”

“…Most of the HPl taxa are frequent components of late-glacial macrofossil assemblages in northeastern North America (Anderson et al, 1986; Argus and Davis, 1962;Miller and Thompson, 1979;Mott et al, 1981;Watts, 1979).…”

The regional vegetational history of the High Peaks (Adirondack Mountains) New York

“…Well-dated pollen and macrofossil studies in the upper Midwest and the Northeast have provided detailed information concerning the patterns of vegetational and climatic change since deglaciation (for example, M.B. Davis 1969, 1981b, Williams 1974, Brubaker 1975 1975, Spear and Miller 1976, Whitehead 1979, Miller and Thompson 1979, Spear 1981, Anderson et al 1986, Overpeck 1985.…”

Geoarchaeology of landscapes in the glaciated Northeast : proceedings of a symposium held at the New York Natural History Conference VI

“…However, bulk lacustrine sediment ages can have potentially large errors (Shotton 1972;Oeschger et al 1985; Andree et al 1986;Cwynar and Watts 1989;Tornqvist et al 1992;Wohlfarth et al 1993Wohlfarth et al , 1995Lowe et al 1995;Abbott and Stafford 1996;Wohlfarth 1996;Bjorck, Bennike et al 1998;Turney et al 2000). Both the uptake of dissolved carbon by aquatic plants from water that is not in equilibrium with the atmosphere, and the direct inclusion of sediment containing old carbon has caused ages as much as 10,000 years or more too old in the northeastern United States and adjacent Quebec with errors on the order of 1,000-2,000 years being common (Mott 1975(Mott , 1981Karrow and Anderson, 1975;Miller and Thompson 1979; P.T. ; PT.…”

“…13,000 B.P. based on uncorrected marine 14C ages (Stuiver and Borns 1975;Kaplan 1999) (Figure 3.1;Miller and Thompson 1979). The recession of ice into Canada occurred at about the time that water was released from Lake Iroquois at Covey Hill into Lake Chapter 3 The Last Deglaciation of the Northeastern United States 35…”