Magnetostratigraphic evidence from the Cold Creek bar for onset of ice-age cataclysmic floods in eastern Washington during the Early Pleistocene

Quaternary Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-135

  Pluhar, Christopher J ^a   Bjornstad, Bruce N ^b   Reidel, Stephen P ^b   Coe, Robert S ^a   Nelson, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataclysmic flood; Cold Creek bar; Hanford; Hysteresis parameters; Jokulhlaup; Magnetostratigraphy; Missoula; Paleomagnetism; Pasco Basin; Scabland; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; JOKULHLAUP; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OUTBURST; PLEISTOCENE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 30444434047     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.06.011     Document Type: Article

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