Fossil Mammoths from Santa Cruz Island, California
| Autor: | Adrian M. Wenner, John E. Cushing, Marla Daily, V. Louise Roth, Elmer R. Noble |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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010506 paleontology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology Context (language use) biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Archaeology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Mainland Popular opinion Quaternary Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes Mammoth |
| Zdroj: | Quaternary Research. 21:376-384 |
| ISSN: | 1096-0287 0033-5894 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0033-5894(84)90076-0 |
| Popis: | Mammoth remains on Santa Cruz Island, one of the four Northern Channel Islands of California, are very sparse, in marked contrast to those reported from Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands of the same island group. A probable major reason for this scarcity is that Quaternary deposits are greatly restricted on Santa Cruz Island. It is proposed, contrary to popular opinion, that fossils found on Santa Cruz Island were derived from animals which died on the island, and were not transported there by humans. Reasons for this conclusion are that the size and geological context of the fossils are similar to those of the largest mammoth fossils of Santa Rosa Island, and that, in spite of extensive investigations by many persons, mammoth remains have not been found in middens, either on the islands or on the adjacent mainland. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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