Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr.

4 publications

Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr.; Szabo, B. J. (detail)
1971	Age of the Pleistocene deposits at South Bight, Amchitka Island, Alaska. [Abstr.] Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstrs. With Progams 3(7): 577. Publ. Oct. 1971; read Nov. 1, 1971. —Records the occurrence of Hydrodamalis gigas in an interglacial (?Sangamon-equivalent) beach deposit, with radiometric dates of 135,000 ± 12,000 and >122,000 years B.P.

Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr.; Lewis, G. E.; Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr. (detail)
1972	Steller's sea cow in Pleistocene interglacial beach deposits on Amchitka, Aleutian Islands. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 83(3): 867-869. Mar. 1972. —Describes the circumstances of discovery of a partial skeleton of a juvenile Hydrodamalis at South Bight, Amchitka, and reviews other North Pacific records of Hydrodamalis and the Aleutian occurrence of Cornwallius.

Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr. (detail)
1977	Geologic history. In: M. L. Merritt & R. G. Fuller (eds.), The environment of Amchitka Island, Alaska. Tech. Inform. Center, Energy Res. & Devel. Admin. (NTIS Document No. TID-26712): 13-34. —

Whitmore, Frank Clifford, Jr.; Gard, Leonard Meade, Jr. (detail)

1977

Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) of Late Pleistocene age from Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 1036: iii + 19. 5 tabs. Cover illus. + 10 figs. 8 pls.
—Describes a partial skeleton of an immature animal and other Hydrodamalis remains from a deposit at South Bight, Amchitka. Also includes many measurements and illustrations of Bering Island H. gigas specimens in the U.S. National Museum; a description of a supposed Hydrodamalis rib fragment from Kangiguksuk, northwestern Alaska (3, 15-16); and illustrations of the mounted Hydrodamalis skeleton at Stockholm (pl. 1). The cover illustration of a sea cow was first publ. in V.B. Scheffer (1973).