Site Name:
Sturgeon Bay
State:
Location:
Sturgeon Bay
County:
Door
Periods:
Taxa:
Deposits:
Date Ranges (Cal yr 2σ):
End:
7 300 BP
Start:
7 600 BP
Site Notes:
• Mid Holocene lowland forest
• Nipissing transgression in the northern Lake Michigan Basin
This site is offshore in Lake Michigan near the city of Sturgeon Bay in Door County. Frank Pranschke located and collected over 15 specimens in July 1992 with a diving crew, and samples were identified as white-cedar and spruce. Radiocarbon dates this lowland coniferous stand to ca. 7330-7500 Cal Yrs BP.
