Book ID: 21648
NOVA HEDWIGIA. BEIHEFTE.
Heft 082: McLaughlin and John L.Stone:Some Late Pleistocene Diatoms of the Kenai Peninsula,Alaska.1986.16 plates. 148 p.gr8vo.Paper bd. (ISBN 3-443-51002-7)
Abstract: This report is a study of the fossil freshwater diatoms from two deposits on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. These deposits,averaging from 2 to 6 feet in thickness, crop out along the sea cliffs bordering Cook Inlet, some 5,5 to 11,5 miles northward of the village of Kenai. They contain a flora encompassing 344 species, varieties and forms of diatoms, including 21 new taxa. The deposits overlie some13 feet of glacial outwash with a carbon- 14 age between 8000 and14000 years B.P.