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Author: Charles G. Oviatt Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0444635947 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 696
Book Description
Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update showcases new information and interpretations about this important lake in the North American Great Basin, presenting a relatively complete summary of the evolving scientific ideas about the Pleistocene lake. A comprehensive book on Lake Bonneville has not been published since the masterpiece of G.K. Gilbert in 1890. Because of Gilbert’s work, Lake Bonneville has been the starting point for many studies of Quaternary paleolakes in many places throughout the world. Numerous journal articles, and a few books on specialized topics related to Lake Bonneville, have been published since the late 1800s, but here the editors compile the important data and perspectives of the early 21st century into a book that will be an essential reference for future generations. Scientific research on Lake Bonneville is vibrant today and will continue into the future. Makes the widespread and detailed literature on this well-known Pleistocene body of water accessible Gives expositions of the many famous and iconic landforms and deposits Contains over 300 illustrations, most in full color Contains chapters on many important topics, including stratigraphy, sedimentology, hydrology, geomorphology, geochronology, isostasy, geophysics, geochemistry, vegetation history, pollen, fishes, mammals, mountain glaciation, prehistoric humans, paleoclimate, remote sensing, and geoantiquities in the Bonneville basin
Author: Charles G. Oviatt Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0444635947 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 696
Book Description
Lake Bonneville: A Scientific Update showcases new information and interpretations about this important lake in the North American Great Basin, presenting a relatively complete summary of the evolving scientific ideas about the Pleistocene lake. A comprehensive book on Lake Bonneville has not been published since the masterpiece of G.K. Gilbert in 1890. Because of Gilbert’s work, Lake Bonneville has been the starting point for many studies of Quaternary paleolakes in many places throughout the world. Numerous journal articles, and a few books on specialized topics related to Lake Bonneville, have been published since the late 1800s, but here the editors compile the important data and perspectives of the early 21st century into a book that will be an essential reference for future generations. Scientific research on Lake Bonneville is vibrant today and will continue into the future. Makes the widespread and detailed literature on this well-known Pleistocene body of water accessible Gives expositions of the many famous and iconic landforms and deposits Contains over 300 illustrations, most in full color Contains chapters on many important topics, including stratigraphy, sedimentology, hydrology, geomorphology, geochronology, isostasy, geophysics, geochemistry, vegetation history, pollen, fishes, mammals, mountain glaciation, prehistoric humans, paleoclimate, remote sensing, and geoantiquities in the Bonneville basin
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781942185420 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 140
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San Francisco-based photographer Light delivers the fourth book in his series of aerial surveys of the American West, taking viewers into the vast geological space and time of the Great Basin.
Author: Grove Karl Gilbert Publisher: Franklin Classics ISBN: 9780342537167 Category : Languages : en Pages : 556
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Grove Karl Gilbert Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230735726 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...new lake was almost as fresh as the streams. It had the property of throwing down suspended clay with great rapidity, so that the greater part of the mud brought to it by the streams was deposited near the shore, and chemical and organic precipitates acquired relative importance in the center of the basin. It is proper to add that the process of burial by desiccation, here invoked to account for the disappearance of saline matter, is not hypothetic, WATER FRESHENED BY DESICCATION. 209 except as regards the particular application. It has been fully demonstrated, especially by the investigations of Russell,1 that it is an actual process, all stages of which are exhibited in the modern history of the small basins of Utah and Nevada. Not only are soluble salts found mingled with the earths of the playas in all proportions, but crystalline layers have been discovered beneath earthy playa deposits; and there are numerous modern lakes of feeble salinity occupying closed basins whose upper slopes are covered by saliferous lacustrine deposits of earlier origin, and whose salts have never been discharged by means of a lake outlet. It is an essential part of the hypothesis that the lake was evaporated to dryness after the deposition of the Yellow ('lay; and the establishment of the hypothesis would demonstrate an element of the curve of oscillation for which there is no other evidence. ORGANIC REMAINS. The fossil remains yielded most abundantly by the Bonneville beds are tests of fresh-water univalve mollusks. These are found at all horizons in the lacustrine deposits, and are likewise imbedded in the tufa. They are best preserved in the White Marl, and are especially abundant at the base and the summit of that member. The specimens preserved in the...
Author: J. Wallace Gwynn Publisher: Utah Geological Survey ISBN: 1557913781 Category : Bonneville, Lake Languages : en Pages : 24
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Color booklet that answers questions about the Great Salt Lake and Lake Bonneville such as when did Lake Bonneville exist and what kinds of animals lived around it, why is the Great Salt Lake salty, what islands are in the lake, and what makes the lake stink?
Author: Charles Gifford Oviatt Publisher: Utah Geological Survey ISBN: 1557918937 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 24
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This 20-page report summarizes observations of sediments and shorelines of the Gilbert episode in the Bonneville basin of northwestern Utah. Lake Bonneville dropped to altitudes similar to those of modern Great Salt Lake by 13,000 years ago, remained low for about 1400 years, then rapidly rose about 50 ft (15 m) during the Gilbert episode (about 11,600 years ago). The Gilbert lake was probably less extensive than shown by previous mapping of the Gilbert shoreline. The lake reached altitudes of 4250-4255 ft (1295-1297 m), and its shoreline, which is not well defined anywhere in the basin, was probably not deformed by residual isostatic rebound associated with removal of the Lake Bonneville water load. Holocene Great Salt Lake has not risen as high as the Gilbert-episode lake.
Author: Charles G. Oviatt
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Author: Grove Karl Gilbert
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Author: Charles Butler Hunt
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Author: J. Wallace Gwynn
Author: Charles Gifford Oviatt