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Lake Tapps Tephra: An Early Pleistocene Stratigraphic Marker in the Puget Lowland, Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. A. Westgate ,
D. J. Easterbrook ,
N. D. Naeser  and
R. J. Carson
J. A. Westgate
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
D. J. Easterbrook
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225 USA
N. D. Naeser
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, MS 424, Box 25046, Denver, Colorado 80225 USA
R. J. Carson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA
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Abstract

The rhyolitic Lake Tapps tephra was deposited about 1.0 myr ago, shortly after culmination of the early phase of the Salmon Springs Glaciation in the Puget Lowland. It is contained within sediments that were deposited in ponds or lakes in front of the reteating glacier. An herb-dominated tundra existed in the southern Puget Lowland at that time. Lake Tapps tephra is most likely the product of an eruption that in part was phreatomagmatic. It forms an early Pleistocene stratigraphic marker across the southern sector of the Puget Lowland and provides a link between Puget lobe sediments of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and sediments deposited by Olympic alpine glaciers.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , November 1987 , pp. 340 - 355
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University of Washington

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