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Reinterpretation of the Burmester Core, Bonneville Basin, Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles G. Oviatt ,
Robert S. Thompson ,
Darrell S. Kaufman ,
Jordon Bright  and
Richard M. Forester
Charles G. Oviatt
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 66506
Robert S. Thompson
Affiliation:
Box 25046, MS 980, United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, 80225
Darrell S. Kaufman
Affiliation:
Departments of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011-4099
Jordon Bright
Affiliation:
Departments of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011-4099
Richard M. Forester
Affiliation:
Box 25046, MS 980, United States Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, 80225
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Abstract

Initial interpretation of the sediments from the Burmester core (Eardley et al. (1973). Geological Society of America Bulletin 84, 211–216) indicated that 17 deep-lake cycles, separated by shallow-lake and soil-forming intervals, occurred in the Bonneville basin during the Brunhes Chron (the last 780 × 103 yr). Our re-examination of the core, along with new sedimentological, geochronological, and paleontological data, indicate that only four deep-lake cycles occurred during this period, apparently correlative with marine oxygen-isotope stages 2, 6, 12, and 16. This interpretation suggests that large lakes formed in the Bonneville basin only during the most extensive of the Northern Hemisphere glaciations.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , September 1999 , pp. 180 - 184
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University of Washington

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