Correlation between Fish Distribution and Pleistocene Hydrography in Eastern California and Southwestern Nevada, with a Map of the Pleistocene Waters

Miller, Robert R.

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“…In contrast, smaller ramps were sufficient to surmount the topography along the Bristol Trough path. The Mojave and Colorado River systems may have been connected in earlier epochs (Blackwelder 1933, Miller 1946. Blackwelder (1954) postulated a Mojave/Colorado connection via the Bristol Trough that coincides exactly with the observed sand path (Figure 12).…”

Section: Sand Transport Pathways As "Rivers Of Sand"mentioning

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Sand Transport Paths in the Mojave Desert, Southwestern United States

Zimbelman

Williams

Tchakerian

1995

Desert Aeolian Processes

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Remote sensing and field evidence are used to describe sand deposits found in associated pathways of emplacement in the eastern Mojave Desert. Two separate pathways are identified here: one extending eastward from the Bristol Playa through the Cadiz and Danby Playas and Rice Valley to the Colorado River, and a second parallel path extending eastward from Dale Playa through the Palen and Ford Playas to the Mule Mountains near the Colorado River. The preferential location of sand ramps on the west slopes of mountains along each path suggests that the eastward moving, wind-driven sand was not confined by topographic divides between separate drainage basins around the individual playas and valleys. Sediment analysis of selected samples shows that there are discreet associations of sand characteristics along the sand pathways, with an inferred similarity between the stabilized (vegetated) sands in Rice Valley, west of the Colorado River, and stabilized sand dunes on Cactus Plain and La Posa Plain in Ajizona, east of the Colorado River. Sand transport along the paths appears to have been episodic, based on multiple paleosols present in several dissected sand ramps. Future testing of the sand transport path hypothesis will require additional sediment analyses, spectral studies of remote sensing data, and obtaining dates for selected soil horizons along the sand paths.

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Section: Sand Transport Pathways As "Rivers Of Sand"mentioning

confidence: 89%

Sand Transport Paths in the Mojave Desert, Southwestern United States

Zimbelman

Williams

Tchakerian

1995

Desert Aeolian Processes

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“…Therefore, only a brief description will be given here to acquaint the reader with the mudstones in the basin. For a more complete understanding of the geology, the works of Bailey (1902), Campbell (1902), Thompson (1929), Miller (1946), Mason (1948), and Blanc and Cleveland (1961a,b) should also be consulted.…”

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Clay mineralogy of Pleistocene Lake Tecopa, Inyo County, California

Starkey¹,

Blackmon²

1979

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“…Stanley Loral commun.) found southward downwarping of the fragmentary beaches (provisionally described by Thomas, 1963 (1949, p. 1295-1296) correlated this shoreline with the Tioga glacial unit; date suggests shoreline is early Tioga, as interpreted by Flint and Gale (1958) for Lake Searles, in same Pluvial drainage system (Miller, 1946 General Comment: these 14 measurements were designed to date the obviously multiple stages of this Pluvial lake, in the ancient Death Valley drainage system, intervening between Lake Searles and sump basin of Lake Manly (Miller, 1946;Hubbs and Miller, 1948;Smith and Pratt, 1957;Feth, 1961Feth, , 1964Snyder, Hardman, and Zdenek, 1964). Pluvial history of this lake seems to, and should, agree with that of Lake Searles (Flint and Gale, 1958), because Lake Panamint presumably filled only when Lake Searles overflowed.…”

Section: Lj-957 Modern Organisms-9mentioning

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“…Pluvial Lake Mohave' California-6 13,670 ±550 11,720 8.. Subsample 4, of Anodonta culi f orniensis shells, which represent, along with some shells of Gyraulus and Helisoma, the thin, sandy lower Anodonta-rich streak that truncates a cobble layer (see . from which it is separated by an eroded surface; it is covered by a gravel-cobble deposit (see LJ-934), which in turn was later truncated and covered by the upper Anodonta layer (see 932,etc. River (one of the 3 main feeders of Lake Manly-see Miller, 1946, Hubbs and Miller, 1948. Warren and De Costa, 1964, and references cited under LJ-200, La Jolla I I) .…”

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La Jolla Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IV

1965

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During 1963 and 1964 the La Jolla Radiocarbon Laboratory continued to follow essentially the same techniques as in previous years. The three counters described in La Jolla III have continued to yield measurements in virtually complete agreement. As before, we add, except for the measurements of apparent age on organisms collected alive (see below), ca. 100 yr to the one-sigma statistical counting error. Dates are still computed on the basis of the half-life estimate of 5570 yr.

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Correlation between Fish Distribution and Pleistocene Hydrography in Eastern California and Southwestern Nevada, with a Map of the Pleistocene Waters

Cited by 25 publications

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Sand Transport Paths in the Mojave Desert, Southwestern United States

Sand Transport Paths in the Mojave Desert, Southwestern United States

Clay mineralogy of Pleistocene Lake Tecopa, Inyo County, California

La Jolla Natural Radiocarbon Measurements IV

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