An evaluation of the evolution of the latest miocene to earliest pliocene bouse lake system in the lower Colorado river valley, southwestern USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 439, Issue , 2008, Pages 375-390

  Spencer, Jon E ^a   Pearthree, Philip A ^a   House, P Kyle ^b  

^a Arizona Geological Survey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouse formation; Colorado river; Hualapai limestone.; Mojave desert

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; LAKES; LIME; SEA LEVEL;

BOUSE FORMATION; COLORADO RIVER; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS; EVAPORATIVE CONCENTRATION; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; SALT CONCENTRATION;

RIVERS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE DYNAMICS; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL METHOD; OUTCROP; PLIOCENE; SEAWATER; SIMULATION; UPLIFT;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 75249095953     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2439(17)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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