NQWM

Site Name: 
Neenah Quad
State: 
WI
Location: 
Neenah
County: 
Winnebago
Periods: 
Older Dryas
Taxa: 
Spruce
Date Ranges (Cal yr 2σ): 
End: 
13 100 BP
Start: 
13 320 BP
Site Notes: 
  • Older Dryas spruce forest

A couple of samples of spruce from Neenah Quarry  in Winnerbago Co., WI were provided by Dr. William Mode of UW-Oshkosh. Crossdated tree-ring series of this site contributed to a 510-year composite tree-ring record of the Green Bay area overlapping tree rings from five locations dated to the Older Dryas (see plot below).

Tentative overlap of spruce tree rings from the best-fit five sites near Green Bay, NE Wisconsin dated between ca. 14,500 and 14,000 cal yrs BP (Older Dryas). The Neenah Quarry site chronology is shown with red line. Color represents different site tree-ring chronologies that can be found in other sections of this website. Upper plot shows site chronology sample depths and lower plot is the tree-ring index curves.