Elk Island Pond

Location:	Alberta, Canada	Latitude (N):	53.65°	Longitude (W):	112.85°
Site notes:	In Elk Island National Park

Ritchie, J. C., and S. P. Harrison 1993

Vegetation, Lake Levels, and Climate in Western Canada during the Holocene. In Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum, edited by H. E. Wright Jr, J. E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W. F. Ruddiman, F. A. Street-Perrott and P. J. Bartlein, pp. 401-414. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Sites discussed: Lake Wabamun, Elk Island Pond, Lofty Lake, Riding Mountain, Glenboro.

Schweger, C., T. Habgood, and M. Hickman 1981

Late Glacial-Holocene Climatic Changes of Alberta: The Record from Lake Sediment Studies. In The Impact of Climatic Fluctuations on Alberta's Resources and Environment, edited by K. R. Leggat and J. T. Kotylak, pp. 47-60. Proceedings of the Workshop and Annual Meeting of the Alberta Climatological Association, Report W.A.E.S.-1-81. A.E.S. Western Region, Environment Canada.
Report that they have examined 16 lakes or sites on a west-east transect through central Alberta: Gregg Lake, Mary Gregg Lake, Fairfax Lake, Goldeye Lake, Lake Wabamun, Smallboy Lake, Muskrat Bog, Lac Ste. Anne, Lake Isle, Hastings Lake, Cooking Lake, Elk Island Park, Joseph Lake, Baptiste Lake, Lofty Lake, Moore Lake. Paper includes a pollen diagram and some preliminary discussion of the Fairfax Lake record, includes total a pigments curve for Gregg Lake and Fairfax Lake, a summary pollen diagram, percentage diatom community diagram and preliminary discussion of the Moore Lake record, and a summary stratigraphic diagram for the Lofty Lake record. They note that detrital coal in the sediment at Fairfax Lake makes the basal date (of around 11,250 yr BP) somewhat doubtful.

Vance, R. E. 1979

Late Holocene Palaeoecology of the Aspen Parkland Region of Western Canada. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 113 pages.
Sites discussed: Smallboy Lake, Elk Island Bog, Elk Island Pond.

Vance, R. E., D. Emerson, and T. Habgood 1983

A Mid-Holocene Record of Vegetative Change in Central Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 20:364-376.
AEU SCI Q 1 C212 Sites discussed: Joseph Lake, Hastings Lake, Smallboy Lake, Elk Island Pond .

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