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.
Cite this Record
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
Keywords
Material
Macrobotanical
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
General
Detrital Charcoal
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Macrofloral Analysis
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Peat
Geographic Keywords
Rio Grande River
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South-Central Colorado
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