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Identification of Disseminated Trego Hot Springs Tephra in the Palouse, Washington State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Matthew King ,
Alan J. Busacca ,
Franklin F. Foit Jr.  and
Rob A. Kemp
Matthew King
Affiliation:
Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, E-mail: matthew.king@rhul.ac.uk
Alan J. Busacca
Affiliation:
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Department of Geology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 99164-6420
Franklin F. Foit Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 99164-6420
Rob A. Kemp
Affiliation:
Centre for Quaternary Research, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom
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Abstract

Tephra layers form important chronostratigraphic marker horizons within the Wisconsinan loess-paleosol stratigraphy of the Palouse, Washington State. This paper details the presence of disseminated glass shards of the Trego Hot Springs tephra that has not previously been recognized within the Palouse or environs. The tephra provides additional chronological control for the regional Late Wisconsinan stratigraphy and raises the possibility of correlating the paleoclimatic proxy record contained within the Palouse to those of lake sequences in Oregon, California, and Nevada.

Keywords

Palouse loessmicrotephraTrego Hot Springs tephra
Type
Research Article
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , September 2001 , pp. 165 - 169
Copyright
University of Washington

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