Ages of Travertine Deposits in Eastern Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Quaternary Research
- Vol. 34 (1), 24-32
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(90)90070-2
Abstract
Travertine deposits in eastern Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, are inferred to have formed under conditions of effective wetness that were greater than present. Uranium-series dating of 17 samples indicates that the deposits formed at about 15,000, 71,000, 111,000, 171,000, and 338,000 yr B.P. Intervals of travertine deposition are essentially contemporaneous with dated high paleolake levels, montane glacial maxima, and high paleowater-table levels from several Great Basin localities.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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