Early postglacial history of the southeastern Assiniboine Delta,glacial Lake Agassiz basin |
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| Authors: | Matthew Boyd |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada |
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| Abstract: | New stratigraphic evidence from the Rossendale area, Manitoba, Canada, provides insight into the early postglacial evolution
of the southeastern Assiniboine Delta. In this region, much of the upper 13+ m of sediment accumulation is characterized by
multiple cycles of sandy rhythmites interbedded with massive to laminated silt. These sediments were deposited rapidly by
traction or turbidity currents and record the construction of the Assiniboine fan-delta during the deep-water Lockhart Phase
of glacial Lake Agassiz (>10.8 14C ka BP). Shortly before ∼10 14C ka BP, fluvial incision into deltaic deposits occurred locally at the Rossendale Gully site in response to the regression
of glacial Lake Agassiz during the Moorhead Phase. Plant macrofossils deposited in the gully by 10 14C ka BP provide the first information on early postglacial plant colonization of the distal Assiniboine delta. These data
suggest initial establishment of Scorpidium scorpioides, Potamogeton spp., Scirpus spp., and other wetland plants, followed
by colonization of uplands by a Picea-Populus assemblage. Importantly, because the gully is located in a protected depression
behind the Campbell beach, evidence of water table rise from aquatic macrophytes suggests that glacial Lake Agassiz transgressed
to the Campbell level during the early Emerson Phase (∼10 14C ka BP). Furthermore, no evidence exists for a post-Lockhart rise in Lake Agassiz above the Upper Campbell beach. If Agassiz
stood at the Campbell level during the early Emerson Phase, then drainage through the southern outlet may have been possible
at this time. This scenario, if true, may suggest that the northwestern outlet was temporarily closed by a glacial advance
shortly before 10 14C ka BP.
This is the first in a series of ten papers published in this special issue of Journal of Paleolimnology. These papers were
presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research (2004), held at the University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. P.F. Karrow and C.F.M. Lewis were guest editors of this special issue |
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| Keywords: | Glacial Lake Agassiz Assiniboine Delta Emerson Phase Campbell beach Plant macrofossils Aquatic macrophytes |
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