Radiocarbon Ages and Environments of Deposition of the Wono and Trego Hot Springs Tephra Layers in the Pyramid Lake Subbasin, Nevada

Quaternary Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 251-260

  Benson, Larry V ^a   Smoot, Joseph P ^a   Kashgarian, Michaela ^b   Sarna Wojcicki, Andrei ^c   Burdett, James W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; PALAEOHYDROLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEPHRA;

USA, NEVADA, PYRAMID LAKE;

EID: 0031473766     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1897     Document Type: Article

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