Lacustrine cave carbonates: Novel archives of paleohydrologic change in the Bonneville Basin (Utah, USA)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 182-194

  McGee, David ^a,b,f   Quade, Jay ^c   Edwards, R Lawrence ^a   Broecker, Wallace S ^b,d   Cheng, Hai ^a,e   Reiners, Peter W ^c   Evenson, Nathan ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Basin; Lake Bonneville; Lake carbonate; Paleohydrology; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

AGE CONTROL; CALCITE DEPOSITION; CARBON RESERVOIRS; CARBONATE DEPOSITION; DEGLACIAL; GREAT BASIN; GREAT SALT LAKE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC DATA; LAKE LEVELS; LAKE WATERS; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; PALEO-HYDROLOGY; SATURATION STATE; SECOND PHASE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; U-TH DATING; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; URANIUM ISOTOPES; UTAH , USA; WATER BALANCE;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; CAVES; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; URANIUM; URANIUM DEPOSITS;

LAKES;

BOLLING; CARBONATE; CAVE DEPOSIT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECISION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SATURATION; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

BONNEVILLE BASIN; GREAT SALT LAKE; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84865511145     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.019     Document Type: Article

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