Geologic setting and stratigraphy of the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 477-489

  Pigati, Jeffrey S ^a   Miller, Ian M ^b   Johnson, Kirk R ^b,c   Honke, Jeffrey S ^a   Carrara, Paul E ^a   Muhs, Daniel R ^a   Skipp, Gary ^a   Bryant, Bruce ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bull Lake glaciation; Paleoclimate; Pleistocene fossils; Snowmastodon; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RURAL AREAS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLANDS;

BULL LAKE GLACIATION; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PALEOCLIMATES; PLEISTOCENE; SNOWMASTODON;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 84947648671     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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