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Wilcox Pass

Location: Alberta, Canada Latitude (N): 52.24° Longitude (W): 117.21°
Site notes: In Jasper National Park. A high-elevation site, upslope from present upper treeline.
Beaudoin, A. B. 1984
Holocene Environmental Change in the Sunwapta Pass Area, Jasper National Park. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 487 pages.
Sites discussed: Wilcox Pass, Sunwapta Pass SP9, Sunwapta Pass SP1, Sunwapta Pass SP20, Sunwapta Pass SP15, Sunwapta Pass SP10. Examined pollen records and tephras.

Beaudoin, A. B. 1986
Using Picea/Pinus Ratios from the Wilcox Pass Core, Jasper National Park, Alberta, to Investigate Holocene Timberline Fluctuations. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 40:145-152.
AEU SCI G 1 R452 Site discussed: Wilcox Pass. Analysis based on pollen ratios.

Beaudoin, A. B. 2003
A Comparison of Two Methods for Estimating the Organic Content of Sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 29:387-390.
AEU SCI QE 39.5 P3 J86 Sites discussed: Wilcox Pass, Sunwapta Pass SP20, Sunwapta Pass SP15.

Beaudoin, A. B., and R. H. King 1986
Using Discriminant Function Analysis to Identify Holocene Tephras Based on Magnetite Composition: A Case Study from the Sunwapta Pass Area, Jasper National Park. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 23:804-812.
AEU SCI Q 1 C212 Site discussed: Sunwapta Pass SP20, Sunwapta Pass SP15, Sunwapta Pass SP9, Sunwapta Pass SP10, Wilcox Pass. Provides information on tephra identification from five sites in the Sunwapta Pass area.

Beaudoin, A. B., and R. H. King 1990
Late Quaternary Vegetation History of Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 80:129- 144.
AEU SCI QE 500 P15 Site discussed: Wilcox Pass.

Bowyer-Beaudoin, A. 1982
Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Change and the Local Pollen Record in Sunwapta Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta. In American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) Program and Abstracts of the Seventh Biennial Conference. p. 74. Character and Timing of Rapid Environmental and Climatic Changes. June 28-30, 1982, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Sites discussed: Wilcox Pass, Sunwapta Pass SP9, Sunwapta Pass SP1, Sunwapta Pass SP20, Sunwapta Pass SP15, Sunwapta Pass SP10. Some preliminary discussion of the pollen record from the four sites along the floor of Sunwapta Pass and the higher-elevation Wilcox Pass site. (04/12/2007).

King, R. H., A. Bowyer-Beaudoin, and F. J. Chorley 1981
Holocene Environmental Change in Jasper National Park: Fourth Interim Report. Copy on file at Park Library, Jasper, Alberta, Canada. Progress Report to Parks Canada 26 pp.
Sites discussed: Sunwapta Pass SP1, Sunwapta Pass SP9, Sunwapta Pass SP10, Wilcox Pass. Report contains some additional discussion of the SP-1, SP-9, and SP-10 records, and a brief description of the Wilcox Pass core.

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