Cyclic aggradation and downcutting, fluvial response to volcanic activity, and calibration of soil-carbonate stages in the Western Grand Canyon, Arizona

Quaternary Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-33

  Lucchitta, Ivo ^a   Curtis, Garniss H ^b   Davis, Marie E ^c   Davis, Sidney W ^c   Turrin, Brent ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c LDEO ^*  (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Cyclic stream response; Grand Canyon; Soil carbonates; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; EROSION; QUATERNARY; RIVER CHANNEL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARIZONA; GRAND CANYON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034091022     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2098     Document Type: Article

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