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Title Lake Bonneville : a scientific update / edited by Charles G. Oviatt, John F. Shroder
Edition First edition
Published Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 659 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Developments in earth surface processes ; volume 20
Developments in earth surface processes ; v. 20.
Contents Front Cover; Frontispiece; Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Letting Earth Tell Its Story; Introduction; Lake Bonneville in Western North America; Lake Bonneville Chronology; This Volume; Gilbert's Contributions and Legacy; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 1: The Present as a Key to the Past: Paleoshoreline Correlation Insights from Great Salt Lake; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Great Salt Lake and Lake Bonneville as a System; 1.3. Challenges of Correlating Shorelines; 1.4. Evidence from Great Salt Lake
1.5. Initial Variability of Shoreline Evidence due to Coastal Processes1.6. Bays, Thresholds, and Constrictions; 1.7. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: The Bear River's History and Diversion: Constraints, Unsolved Problems, and Implications for the Lake Bonnevil ...; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Setting and Evolution of the Upper Bear River; 2.3. History of Faulting and Volcanism in Gem Valley; 2.3.1. Building of the Drainage Divide in Gem Valley; 2.4. Chronostratigraphy of Southern Gem Valley and Oneida Narrows; 2.4.1. Prior Chronostratigraphy
2.4.2. History of Bear River Water Input to Southern Gem Valley2.4.3. New Age Control in the Upper Main Canyon Formation and Overlying Units; 2.5. Proxy Evidence from the Bonneville Basin; 2.6. Discussion; 2.6.1. Paleogeography and Diversion; 2.6.2. Implications of Bear River Drainage Integration; 2.6.3. Primary Unsolved Problems; References; Chapter 3: The Pilot Valley Shoreline: An Early Record of Lake Bonneville Dynamics; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Description; 3.3. Lake Margin Characteristics; 3.4. Early Lake Hydrograph; 3.5. Discussion; 3.6. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments
6.2. "For a Time the Outpouring Was a Veritable Débâcle"6.3. Melon Gravel; 6.4. "The Flood Volume of the Missouri"; 6.5. "Lake Bursts"; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7: The Provo Shoreline of Lake Bonneville; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. G.K. Gilbert on the Provo Shoreline; 7.3. Shorezone Geomorphology and Deposits; 7.4. Nearshore and Offshore Sediments; 7.5. Chronology and Dynamics; 7.5.1. History of Chronologic Studies; 7.5.2. Integrated Model; 7.5.3. Isostatic Rebound; 7.6. Paleoclimate Interpretations; 7.6.1. Evolution of Thought; 7.6.2. Comparison with Great Basin Lake Records
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 1, 2016)
Subject Geology -- Utah.
Lakes -- Utah.
Geomorphology -- Fieldwork
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General
Geology
Lakes
Géologie -- Bonneville, lac -- Pléistocène.
SUBJECT Bonneville, Lake. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86006008
Subject United States -- Lake Bonneville
Utah
Form Electronic book
Author Oviatt, Charles Gifford, editor.
Shroder, John F., 1939- editor.
LC no. 2017394314
ISBN 9780444635945
0444635947