Depositional processes and the inferred history of ice-margin retreat associated with the deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet: The sedimentary record from Flathead Lake, northwest Montana, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 61-74

  Hofmann, Michael H ^a   Hendrix, Marc S ^b  

^a Subsurface Group Inc Texas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cordilleran Ice Sheet; Deglaciation history; Event beds; Flathead Lake; Glacial outburst floods; Hyperpycnal flows; Late Pleistocene; Pro glacial lake; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITION; FACIES ANALYSIS; FLOODPLAIN; GRAIN SIZE; ICE MARGIN; ICE RETREAT; OUTBURST; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

FLATHEAD LAKE; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

KATHETOSTOMA GIGANTEUM;

EID: 73349114289     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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