Paleoenvironments of sedimentary interbeds in the Pliocene and Quaternary Big Lost Trough, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 353, Issue , 2002, Pages 27-44

  Bestland, Erick A ^a   Link, Paul Karl ^b   Lanphere, Marvin A ^c   Champion, Duane E ^c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; ICE; ISOTOPES; LABORATORIES; LAKES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES; DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORIES; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE TROUGH; WATER LEVEL;

BIG LOST RIVER; IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71749109673     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2353-1.27     Document Type: Article

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