Skiing in the Eocene Uinta mountains? Isotopic evidence in the Green River Formation for snow melt and large mountains

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 403-406

  Norris, Richard D ^a   Jones, Lawrence S ^b   Corfield, Richard M ^c   Cartlidge, Julie E ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CLIMATE MODELS; DISTILLATION; ISOTOPES; LAKES; RIVERS; SNOW; WATERSHEDS;

18O ENRICHMENT; COOL CLIMATES; GREEN RIVER FORMATION; HEAVY RAINFALL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MILD TEMPERATURES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS; STANDARD MEAN OCEAN WATERS; GREEN RIVER; LAKE WATERS; LAPSE RATE; MELT WATER;

LANDFORMS;

ENRICHMENT; EOCENE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SNOWMELT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; SNOW MELT; TOPOGRAPHY;

GREEN RIVER; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UINTA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0029753017     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0403:SITEUM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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