Pleistocene lake outburst floods and fan formation along the eastern Sierra Nevada, California: implications for the interpretation of intermontane lacustrine records

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 21-22, 2006, Pages 2729-2748

  Benn, Douglas I ^a,b   Owen, Lewis A ^c   Finkel, Robert C ^d   Clemmens, Samuel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; LAKES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

FAN DEPOSITION; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; SUBGLACIAL EROSION;

FLOODS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; FLOOD DEPOSIT; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; INTERMONTANE BASIN; MORAINE; OUTBURST; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS LAKE; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751255055     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.018     Document Type: Article

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