Don R. Currey Memorial Field Trip to the shores of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 419-448

  Godsey, Holly S ^a   Atwood, Genevieve ^b   Lips, Elliott ^a   Miller, David M ^c   Milligan, Mark ^d   Oviatt, Charles G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Earth Science Education   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Delta; Holocene; Lake Bonneville; Marl; Pleistocene; Provo shoreline

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE MINERALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; FERTILIZERS;

DELTA; HOLOCENES; MARL; PLEISTOCENE; PROVO SHORELINE;

LAKES;

EID: 84997095431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2005.fld006(19)     Document Type: Article

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