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The Mesa Verde Loess1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Gustaf Arrhenius  and
Enrico Bonatti
Gustaf Arrhenius
Affiliation:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Enrico Bonatti
Affiliation:
Institute For Marine Science, Miami, Florida
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Abstract

The petrology and stratification of the late Pleistocene and Recent mesa deposits in the Mesa Verde area are described. These deposits are believed to have been formed by eolian deposition. Measurements of present-day dust accumulation are reported. The age relationships of the strata are discussed on the basis of measurements of the radioactivity of organic carbon and carbonate precipitates and with reference to the early Mesa Verde culture.

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Eugene W. Ingle

Type
3 The Natural Sciences
Information
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 19: Contributions of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project , October 1965 , pp. 92 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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Footnotes

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This is Contribution No. 30 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project and also a contribution from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, New Series.

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