TBLC

Site Name: 
Thunder Bay
State: 
Location: 
Thunder Bay near Alpena
County: 
Alpena
Taxa: 
Deposits: 
Date Ranges (Cal yr 2σ): 
End: 
7 840 BP
Start: 
8 020 BP
Site Notes: 

• Mid Holocene lowland forest

• Nipissing transgression in the northern Lake Huron Basin

This forest bed is located at the bottom of Thunder Bay in ten meters of water. Larch stumps are dated ca. 7850-8020 Cal Yrs BP. The site provides evidence on shoreline position of Lake Huron during the onset of the Nipissing transgression in the northern Lake Huron Basin.

L. Clyburn. | Stump in-situ.