Tephra layers of Blind Spring Valley and related upper Pliocene and Pleistocene tephra layers, California, Nevada, and Utah: Isotopic ages, correlation, and magnetostratigraphy

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1701, 2005, Pages 1-52

  Sarna Wojcicki, Andrei M ^a   Reheis, Marith C ^b   Pringle, Malcolm S ^c   Fleck, Robert J ^a   Burbank, Doug ^d   Meyer, Charles E ^a   Slate, Janet L ^b   Wan, Elmira ^e   Budahn, James R ^b   Troxel, Bennie ^f   Walker, James P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FELDSPAR; FLUORESCENCE; GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PETROGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; BISHOP; BLIND SPRING VALLEY; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; DEATH VALLEY; DEVON ISLAND; FISH LAKE; GLASS MOUNTAINS; GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

SALIX;

EID: 42449092983     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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