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Glacial and postglacial geologic history of Isle Royale National Park, 1973

Also USGS Professional Paper 754-A · Huber 1973

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Date1973
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Summary

N. King Huber’s held 1973 USGS paper reconstructs glacial and postglacial geologic history for Isle Royale National Park. It supplies a documented Great Lakes-island comparison for questions about glacial deposits, raised shorelines, and the interpretation of relict landforms.

Evidence and limits

The paper establishes its observations and interpretations for Isle Royale and the Lake Superior basin. It does not establish a Beaver Island glacial sequence, the age or elevation of a specific Beaver archipelago beach ridge, a local sediment profile, or an island-specific shoreline change rate.

The KB uses this source as a methodological analogue only. Beaver, High, and Garden Island claims require direct local mapping, field evidence, or sources whose study area actually includes those islands.

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Sources

  1. Held public-domain USGS paper on Isle Royale. It treats glacial erosion/deposition, abandoned shorelines, and post-Valders lake stages in the Lake Superior basin. It is a Great Lakes island analogue for methods and landform interpretation, not a survey, elevation record, or direct factual source for the Beaver Island archipelago.
    geology · publications · huber_1973_pp754a
  2. Project provenance sidecar for Huber 1973.
    Records the USGS source URL, retrieval timestamp, checksum, 11,391,102-byte file size, public-domain status, and the project’s analogue-use note. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    geology · publications · huber_1973_pp754a.provenance

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Glacial and postglacial geologic history of Isle Royale National Park, 1973”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/huber-isle-royale-glacial-history-1973/, accessed [date], citing N. King Huber, *Glacial and Postglacial Geologic History of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan*, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 754-A (1973). (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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