Late Pleistocene landslide-dammed lakes along the Rio Grande, White Rock Canyon, New Mexico

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1492-1507

  Reneau, Steven L ^a   Dethier, David P ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAMS; FLOODS; GRAVEL; GROUNDWATER; LANDSLIDES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY;

GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LANDSLIDE-DAMMED LAKES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE SEDIMENTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEDIMENT YIELDS; TRIGGERING MECHANISM;

LAKES;

BASALT; BOULDER; FLOOD BASALT; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; LANDSLIDE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; OUTBURST; PLEISTOCENE; PORE PRESSURE; RADIOCARBON DATING; LANDSLIDE - DAMMED LAKE;

RIO GRANDE [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WHITE ROCK CREEK; USA;

EID: 0030317699     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1492:LPLDLA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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