Are the benches at Mormon Point, Death Valley, California, USA, scarps or strandlines?

Quaternary Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 352-360

  Knott, Jeffrey R ^a   Tinsley III, John C ^b   Wells, Stephen G ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death Valley; Fault scrapes; Pluvial lakes

Indexed keywords

FAULT SCARP; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAKE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SHORELINE; STRANDLINE;

CALIFORNIA; MORMON POINT; UNITED STATES;

PSATHYROTES;

EID: 0036871447     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2002.2382     Document Type: Article

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