Sudden desiccation of Lake Gosiute at ∼49 Ma: A downstream record of heart mountain faulting?

Mountain Geologist

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Rhodes, Meredith K ^a   Malone, David H ^b   Carroll, Alan R ^a   Smith, Elliot M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; DESICCATION; EOCENE; FAULTING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MOUNTAIN; MUDSTONE; SANDSTONE; SILTSTONE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

GREEN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHAKIE BASIN;

EID: 33947632454     PISSN: 0027254X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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