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LOW-LYING areas of northern Alaska along the shores of the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea, as well as the basin of the Yukon River, were not glaciated during the Pleistocene1. During times of glacial maxima these areas were extended by eustatic lowering of sea-level and included a wide land platform connecting Alaska with Asia, the Bering land bridge2. The land connexion was last severed about ten thousand years ago2.
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COLINVAUX, P. A Pollen Record from Arctic Alaska reaching Glacial and Bering Land Bridge Times. Nature 198, 609–610 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198609a0
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