Stratigraphic evidence for multiple drainings of glacial Lake Missoula along the Clark Fork River, Montana, USA

Quaternary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 311-322

  Smith, Larry N ^a  

^a Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophic floods; Channeled Scabland; Glacial Lake Missoula; Late Pleistocene; Ninemile section

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL LAKE; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PEAK DISCHARGE;

CLARK FORK RIVER; GLACIAL LAKE MISSOULA; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749614951     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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