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Age of the Cutler Dam Alloformation (Late Pleistocene), Bonneville Basin, Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Darrell S. Kaufman ,
Steve L. Forman  and
Jordon Bright
Darrell S. Kaufman
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Department of Environmental Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011-4099, E-mail: Darrell.Kaufman@nau.edu
Steve L. Forman
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, 60607-7059
Jordon Bright
Affiliation:
Quaternary Sciences Program, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011-5644
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Abstract

Luminescence geochronology, especially infrared stimulated luminescence analyses on marsh mud, shows that a relatively deep lake reached its peak (∼1340 m above sea level) in the Bonneville basin 59,000±5000 yr ago. The age is consistent with nonfinite 14C ages and with amino acid geochronology on ostracodes. The Cutler Dam Alloformation was deposited during this lake cycle, which, like the subsequent Bonneville lake cycle, appears to have reached its maximum highstand following the peak of a global glacial stage (marine oxygen-isotope stage 4) but at a time when other records from North America show evidence for cold climate and expanded glacier ice.

Keywords

Pluvial LakeQuaternaryGeochronology
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 2001 , pp. 322 - 334
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University of Washington

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