A quarter-million years of paleoenvironmental change at Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 450, Issue , 2009, Pages 311-351

  Kaufman, Darrell S ^a   Bright, Jordon ^a   Dean, Walter E ^b   Rosenbaum, Joseph G ^b   Moser, Katrina ^c   Anderson, R Scott ^a   Colman, Steven M ^d   Heil, Clifford W ^e   Jiménez Moreno, Gonzalo ^a   Reheis, Marith C ^b   Simmons, Kathleen R ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; FERTILIZERS; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; OXYGEN; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BULK CARBONATES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CONDITION; DEPOCENTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; OSTRACODES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE;

LAKES;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LAKE LEVEL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

BEAR LAKE; IDAHO; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; OSTRACODA;

EID: 75449120274     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2450(14)     Document Type: Article

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