EXAMINATION OF SAMPLES FOR RADIOCARBON DATABLE MATERIAL FROM THE MR. PEAT PIT, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO

Author(s): Kathryn Puseman

Year: 2005

Summary

The Mr. Peat Pit site consists of widespread peat and localized tufa in the latest

Pleistocene paleovalley on piedmont east of Rio Grande in south central Colorado. A sample

of black-mat type peat and a sample of the overlying spring-mound tufa from the pit initially

were floated to recover organic fragments suitable for radiocarbon analysis. Botanic

components and detrital charcoal were identified, and potentially radiocarbon datable material

was separated. An additional tufa sample and six additional peat samples from three backhoe

trenches also were floated to recover organic fragments suitable for radiocarbon analysis.

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EXAMINATION OF SAMPLES FOR RADIOCARBON DATABLE MATERIAL FROM THE MR. PEAT PIT, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO. Kathryn Puseman. 2005 ( tDAR id: 379331) ; doi:10.6067/XCV85B01ZV

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