Eruption and Reshaping of Pahvant Butte Volcano in Pleistocene Lake Bonneville

Volcaniclastic Sedimentation in Lacustrine Settings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-80

  White, J D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bonneville lake levels and platform evolution; Depositional features lower cone and upper cone; Eruption and reshaping of Pahvant Butte volcano in Pleistocene lake Bonneville; Eruption, emergence and construction of Pahvant Butte volcano; Foreset sedimentary features and sedimentation; Lithofacies m1, m2, m3, m4; Morphology and structural elements of Pahvant Butte; Platform progradational beach deposits, local delta, platform foreset, platform contact relationships; The cone form of the cone; The mound

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DEPOSITS; EROSION; VOLCANOES; WATER LEVELS;

LAKE LEVELS; LITHOFACIES; PLATFORM - PROGRADATIONAL BEACH DEPOSITS, LOCAL DELTA, PLATFORM FORESET, PLATFORM CONTACT RELATIONSHIPS; PLEISTOCENE; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; THE MOUND;

LAKES;

EID: 2242462633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304251.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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