Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives

Late Quaternary MIS 6–8 shoreline features of pluvial Owens Lake, Owens Valley, eastern California
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Published:January 01, 2008
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A.S. Jayko, S.N. Bacon, 2008. "Late Quaternary MIS 6–8 shoreline features of pluvial Owens Lake, Owens Valley, eastern California", Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives, Marith C. Reheis, Robert Hershler, David M. Miller
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The chronologic history of pluvial Owens Lake along the eastern Sierra Nevada in Owens Valley, California, has previously been reported for the interval of time from ca. 25 calibrated ka to the present. However, the age, distribution, and paleoclimatic context of higher-elevation shoreline features have not been formally documented. We describe the location and characteristics of wave-formed erosional and depositional features, as well as fluvial strath terraces that grade into an older shoreline of pluvial Owens Lake. These pluvial-lacustrine features are described between the Olancha area to the south and Poverty Hills area to the north, and they appear to...
- absolute age
- alluvium
- atmospheric precipitation
- Basin and Range Province
- California
- Cenozoic
- chemically precipitated rocks
- chlorine
- Cl-36
- clastic sediments
- climate change
- dates
- deformation
- digital terrain models
- drainage basins
- elevation
- erosion
- fault zones
- faults
- geochemistry
- geomorphology
- Great Basin
- halogens
- Inyo County California
- Inyo Mountains
- isotopes
- lake-level changes
- landform evolution
- last glacial maximum
- lava flows
- lithostratigraphy
- MIS 6
- MIS 7
- models
- neotectonics
- North America
- Owens Lake
- Owens Valley
- paleoclimatology
- paleoenvironment
- paleolakes
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- radioactive isotopes
- sedimentary rocks
- sediments
- shore features
- shorelines
- Sierra Nevada
- stratigraphic units
- tectonics
- terraces
- topography
- tufa
- United States
- waves
- Poverty Hills
- Olancha California
- MIS 8
- Centennial Flat Embayment