Late Quaternary Geomorphology of the Great Salt Lake Region, Utah, and Other Hydrographically Closed Basins in the Western United States: A Summary of Observations

Authors

United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

7-25-1989

Abstract

This report reviews attributes of Quaternary lakes and lake basins which are often important in the environmental prehistory of semideserts. Basin-floor and basin-closure morphometry have set limits on paleolake sizes; lake morphometry and basin drainage patterns have influenced lacustrine processes; and water and sediment loads have influenced basin neotectonics. Information regarding inundated, runoff-producing, and extra-basin spatial domains is acquired directly from the paleolake record, including the littoral morphostratigraphic record, and indirectly by reconstruction.

Comments

SuDocs call # NAS 1.26:185912

Recommended Citation

United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "Late Quaternary Geomorphology of the Great Salt Lake Region, Utah, and Other Hydrographically Closed Basins in the Western United States: A Summary of Observations" (1989). Water. Paper 13.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs_water/13