A 250 k.y. record of Cascade arc pyroclastic volcanism from late Pleistocene lacustrine sediments near Summer Lake, Oregon, USA

Geosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 397-429

  Kuehn, Stephen C ^a   Negrini, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLEISTOCENE; PYROCLASTIC FLOW; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; MEDICINE LAKE VOLCANO; MOUNT MAZAMA; MOUNT SAINT HELENS; NEWBERRY VOLCANO; OREGON; SUMMER LAKE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

MAZAMA;

EID: 78049479461     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00515.1     Document Type: Article

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