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Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1972

Comments

Published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, p. 867-870, March 1972.

Abstract

The first discovery of Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis) in place in Pleistocene deposits has been made in interglacial beach sand and gravel 35 m above present sea level on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. Uranium series dating of the bone indicates that it is about 135,000 yrs old.

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