Pre-and post-Missoula flood geomorphology of the Pre-Holocene ancestral Columbia River Valley in the Portland forearc basin, Oregon and Washington, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 276-293

  Peterson, Curt D ^a   Minor, Rick ^b   Peterson, Gary L ^c   Gates, Edward B ^d  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Heritage Research Associates Inc   (United States)

^c Shannon and Wilson Inc   (United States)

^d Oregon Water Resources Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia River; Geomorphic landscapes; Holocene submergence; Missoula floods; Pleistocene alluvium

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLOOD; FOREARC BASIN; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL PROFILE; SUBMERGENCE;

COLUMBIA RIVER; MISSOULA; MONTANA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955029441     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.02.022     Document Type: Article

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