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Paleomagnetic Investigation of the Bonneville Alloformation, Lake Bonneville, Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joseph C. Liddicoat  and
Robert S. Coe
Joseph C. Liddicoat
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027
Robert S. Coe
Affiliation:
Earth Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, 95064
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Abstract

Paleomagnetic secular variation in a portion of the Bonneville Alloformation is compared with secular variation in lacustrine sediments in the Mono Basin, California, and with secular variation in Lake Lahontan sediments in the northwestern Great Basin. The comparison places an age of about 18,000 yr B.P., and a span of 1000 to 3000 yr, on part of a transgressive stage of Lake Bonneville near Delta, Utah, that is coeval with a wet period in the Lahontan Basin.

Keywords

Lake BonnevilleMono BasinLake LahontanPleistocenepaleomagnetismsecular variationgeochronologyUtahCaliforniaNevada
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Original Articles
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Quaternary Research , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , November 1998 , pp. 214 - 220
Copyright
University of Washington

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