New stratigraphic markers in the late Pleistocene Palouse loess: Novel fossil gastropods, absolute age constraints and non-aeolian facies

Sedimentology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-52

  Spencer, Patrick K ^a   Knapp, Angela N ^a,b  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Loess; Missoula Floods; Mollusc; Mount Saint Helens; Pleistocene; Soils

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FOSSIL; GASTROPOD; LOESS; MOLLUSC; PLEISTOCENE; RHYTHMITE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CASCADE RANGE; COLUMBIA BASIN; MOUNT SAINT HELENS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 72649098208     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01085.x     Document Type: Article

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