Late Pleistocene – Early Holocene Stratigraphic "Marker Horizons" in North Florida
Author(s): William Barse; Charlotte Pevny; R. Christopher Goodwin
Year: 2015
Summary
The recognition of chronologically synchronous paleosols along the Cody Scarp in north Florida reflects broad patterns of deposition, pedogenesis, weathering, and climatic stability at the Pleistocene – Holocene transition. These paleosols, or stratigraphic "marker horizons," formed during rapid burial of A-horizons under mesic forest conditions. Marker horizons are best understood from the framework of genetic stratigraphy because they contain temporally diagnostic Early Archaic Bolen points. Since Florida notoriously lacks deeply stratified alluvial packages along major river drainages on the Atlantic Seaboard and west of the Appalachian Mountains, identifying chronologically specific horizons places relative sequences in Florida on much firmer chronological ground.
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Late Pleistocene – Early Holocene Stratigraphic "Marker Horizons" in North Florida. Charlotte Pevny, William Barse, R. Christopher Goodwin. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397964)
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Keywords
General
Early Archaic Bolen
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Florida Archaeology
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marker horizons
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;