Interior Western United States

The GSA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City provided a large and diverse terrain for field trips—from the Basin and Range to the Rocky Mountains, from the Snake River Plain, across the Colorado Plateau, to the Mojave Desert. This volume contains 22 field trip articles, nearly all of those run at the 2005 meeting. All combine the latest research with useful road logs to spectacular and often classic geologic settings. The regional tour has a core of structure and stratigraphy-paleontology contributions, and is rounded off with volcanic, glacial, lacustrine, fluvial geomorphology, neotectonic, geologic hazard, and geoarchaeology articles.
Don R. Currey Memorial Field Trip to the shores of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville
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Published:January 01, 2005
Abstract
Donald R. Currey spent over two decades researching and exploring relics of ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin. Shoreline and deepwater deposits of Lake Bonneville document coastal processes, lake chemistry, and environmental change during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. This field guide summarizes findings at many of the classic localities researched by Currey and colleagues that contributed to the current understanding of this impressive pluvial lake and its interglacial successor, Great Salt Lake. Subjects include coastal processes at Antelope Island and the Stockton Bar; lake history, chemistry and environmental change at Stansbury Island, the Public Shooting Grounds and Hansel Valley; deltaic depositional processes at Big Cottonwood Canyon, American Fork Canyon and Brigham City; and the relative chronology of glacial and lacustrine deposition at Little Cottonwood Canyon and Bells Canyon.
- Basin and Range Province
- Box Elder County Utah
- Cenozoic
- chronology
- clastic rocks
- climate change
- deltaic environment
- field trips
- glacial environment
- Great Basin
- Holocene
- Juab County Utah
- lacustrine environment
- lacustrine features
- Lake Bonneville
- lake-level changes
- marl
- North America
- paleoclimatology
- paleolakes
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- road log
- sedimentary rocks
- shorelines
- Tooele County Utah
- United States
- Utah