Lake Manix shorelines and Afton Canyon terraces: Implications for incision of Afton Canyon

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 439, Issue , 2008, Pages 227-259

  Reheis, Marith C ^a   Redwine, Joanna L ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial incision; Mojave river; Pluvial lake; Soil development

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BEDROCK INCISION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; FLUVIAL INCISION; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATEST PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON AGE; SOIL DEVELOPMENT;

LAKES;

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BEDROCK; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; HIGHSTAND; HOLOCENE; LAKE WATER; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY;

AFTON CANYON; CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72149127308     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2439(10)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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