On phytoliths, late Quaternary ecology of Beringia, and information evolutionary theory

• Author / Creator

  Bombin, Miguel.

• Doctoral thesis. Critically reviews the art of phytolith analysis and presents new techniques to collection of samples, processing, mounting, and optical and SEM microscopic analyses. Includes results of analyses of samples from the Old Crow Basin, Yukon and lake areas in Alaska.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Stratigraphy, Quaternary
  • Geology, Quaternary
  • Alaska
  • Flora
  • Vegetation
  • Yukon Territory
  • Fossils
  • Geology, Pleistocene
  • Arctic
  • Project Chariot
  • Palaeontology
  • Botany
  • Plants
  • Archaeology, Methods and Techniques
  • Stratigraphy, Pleistocene

• Graduation date

  1984

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Doctor of Philosophy

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3CJ87R9X

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.