Paleoclimatic implications of late Pleistocene sediment yield rates for the Bonneville Basin, northern Utah

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 123, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 147-159

  Lemons, David R ^a   Milligan, Mark R ^a   Chan, Marjorie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA SEDIMENT; DELTAIC SEDIMENT; LAKE LEVEL; PALAEOPRECIPITATION; PALAEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE (LATE); SEDIMENT YIELD;

USA, UTAH, BONNEVILLE BASIN;

EID: 0030176741     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-0182(95)00117-4     Document Type: Article

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