Pliocene-Pleistocene stratigraphy and depositional environments, southern Confidence Hills, Death Valley, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 333, Issue , 1999, Pages 289-300

  Beratan, Kathi K ^a   Hsieh, Jean ^b   Murray, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; GYPSUM; LAKES; LANDFORMS; OSTWALD RIPENING; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; TEXTURES;

CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE; MEDIUM-GRAINED SANDSTONES; PLEISTOCENE STRATIGRAPHY; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALLUVIAL FAN; ANHYDRITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVAPORITE; GROUNDWATER; GYPSUM; LITHOFACIES; MUDFLAT; MUDSTONE; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PROGRADATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SALINE LAKE; SILTSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; SEARLES LAKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870873629     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2333-7.289     Document Type: Article

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