Lab 6 Course Material
Records of Pluvial Lakes and Climate Change Preserved as shorelines: Utah
- GEOL Lab 6 Assignment (pdf)
Documents
- USDA Data Gateway DEM data (10 m) and USDA Imagery and USGS Topographic Imagery (MrSID)
- 5 meter resolution topography data from the Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center website.
- Lab 6 Data in a 960 MB *.zip file
- New AOI file, in the form of a zipped shapefile.
- Lab 6 DEM as TIFF Data in a 62 MB *.zip file
GEOL Lab 6 Data
- Here is the entire map as a pdf (Pampeyan, 1989).
- Here are the GIS data in a zip file from this geologic map (Pampeyan, 1989).
Maps
Here is a a portion of the geological map of the region that we are mapping. We are mapping erosional and depositional landforms. This map is a geologic map, so does not typically show the landforms because geologic maps typically show the bedrock.
- Crittenden Jr., M.D., 1963. New Data on the Isostatic Deformation of Lake Bonneville, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 454-E, 35 pp.
- Malde, H.E., 1968. The Catastrophic Late Pleistocene Bonneville Flood in the Snake River Plain, Idaho, U.G. Geological Survey Professional Paper 596, 57 pp.
- Nelson, D.T. and Jewell, P.W., 2013. Correlation of the Late Pleistocene “Intermediate” Shorelines of Lake Bonneville, U.S.A., abstract submitted to the 2013 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. (poster 3.5 MB pdf)
- Pampeyan, E.H., 1989. Geologic Map of the Luynndal 30- by 60-Minute Quadrangle, West-Central Utah, U.S. Geological SUrvey, Map I-1830.
- Sack, D., 1999. The Composite Nature of the Provo Level of Lake Bonneville, Great Basin, Western North America, in Quaternary Research, v. 52, p. 316-327.