Shoreline processes and the age of the Lake Lahontan highstand in the Jessup embayment, Nevada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1318-1332

  Adams, Kenneth D ^a,b   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; STORMS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; LAKE LEVELS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PYRAMID LAKES; RADIOCARBON AGE; RADIOCARBON DATING; WAVE ENERGY;

LAKES;

HIGHSTAND; LAKE LEVEL; PLEISTOCENE;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879890046     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<1318:SPATAO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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