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Pleistocene Succession of the Central Interior United States1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John C. Frye
John C. Frye*
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois 61801 USA
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Abstract

The Quaternary of the continental interior of the United States is characterized by deposits from glacial ice, with associated outwash and eolian deposits, and by alluvial deposits produced by the same climatic pulses. Erosional incision of valleys occurred early in the glacial pulse, outwash deposition during the waning phase of the pulse, and soil formation during times of relative stability between the glacial pulses. These features of deposition, erosion, and soil formation are presented in a series of curves. One way the marine record could be correlated with that of the continental interior is to compare and match the physical records of both environments.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , August 1973 , pp. 275 - 283
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University of Washington

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Footnotes

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Presented as part of a symposium on comparison of the continental and marine Quaternary record, at a meeting of AMQUA, Miami, Florida, December, 1972.

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