Glacial Lake Great Falls, Montana (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Barbara Klontz.

Sediments collected from a high shore line of Glacial Lake Great Falls at an elevation of 3860 feet were processed to separate bones to submit for identification and radiocarbon analysis (Table 1). This area is near the modern Missouri River. The Pleistocene lake silts, overlain by Pleistocene shore lines, contained bone representing animals that lived along the shore of this lake during the Pleistocene era. These lacustrine sediments contained several bone fragments, many of which appear...