Age and correlation of tephra layers, position of the Matuyama-Brunhes chron boundary, and effects of Bishop ash eruption on Owens Lake, as determined from drill hole OL-92, outheast California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 317, Issue , 1997, Pages 79-90

  Sarna Wojcicki, Andrei M ^a   Meyer, Charles E ^a   Wan, Elmira ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION RATES; INFILL DRILLING; ROCK DRILLS;

AGE CONSTRAINTS; DRY BULK DENSITIES; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTATION RATES; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

LAKES;

AGE DETERMINATION; BRUNHES CHRON; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOMAGNETISM; SEDIMENTATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CALIFORNIA; OWENS LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345974795     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2317-5.79     Document Type: Article

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