Paleolake shoreline sequencing using ground penetrating radar: Lake Alvord, Oregon, and Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 432, Issue , 2007, Pages 103-110

  Wilkins, David E ^a   Clement, William P ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Paleolakes; Quaternary geomorphology; Western U.S.

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DEPOSITION; FLOODS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; LAKES; STRATIGRAPHY;

FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INTERMEDIATE STAGE; PALEOLAKES; SIGNAL PENETRATION; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; WESTERN U.S;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BASIN; FLOODING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HIGHSTAND; LAKE; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SHORELINE; SIGNAL;

ALVORD LAKE; NEVADA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75749119296     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2432(08)     Document Type: Article

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