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Compiling important data and perspectives from the early 21st century in one handy reference, this book offers new information and evolving scientific interpretations about Lake Bonneville, an important Pleistocene lake in the North American Great Basin

Table of Contents

1. The Present as a Key to the Past: Paleoshoreline Correlation Insights from Great Salt Lake 2. The Bear River's history and diversions - constraints, unsolved problems, and implications for the Lake 3: The Pilot Valley shoreline, an early record of Lake Bonneville dynamics 4. Landslides, alluvial fans, and dam failure at Red Rock Pass: The outlet of Lake Bonneville 5. The Bonneville shoreline: Reconsidering Gilbert’s interpretation 6. The Bonneville flood—A veritable débâcle 7. The Provo shoreline of Lake Bonneville 8. Isostatic rebound and palinspastic restoration of the Bonneville and Provo shorelines in the Bonneville basin, UT, NV, and ID 9. Using Lake Bonneville features to calibrate in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates 10. Late Pleistocene to early Holocene sedimentary history of the Lake Bonneville Pilot Valley embayment, Utah-Nevada, USA 11. Late Quaternary changes in lakes, vegetation, and climate in the Bonneville basin reconstructed from sediment cores from Great Salt Lake 12. The fishes of Lake Bonneville: Implications for drainage history, biogeography and lake levels 13. Changes in late Quaternary mammalian biogeography in the Bonneville basin 14. Bonneville basin avifaunal change at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition: Evidence from Homestead Cave 15. Quaternary vegetation changes in the Bonneville basin 16. Water chemistry changes over time and space in Lake Bonneville during the post-Stansbury transgression 17. Late Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the Lake Bonneville basin 18. The early human occupation of the Bonneville basin 19. Imaging the margins of Pleistocene lake deposits with high-resolution seismic reflection in the eastern Basin and Range: Pilot Valley, Utah (USA) 20. A speleothem record of Great Basin paleoclimate: the Leviathan chronology, Nevada 21. Pleistocene Lake Bonneville as an analog for extraterrestrial lakes and oceans 22. Insights into Lake Bonneville using remote sensing and digital terrain tools 23. Lake Bonneville geosites in the urban landscape: Potential loss of geological heritage

About the Author

Jack Oviatt started working on Lake Bonneville in 1977 as a graduate student at the University of Utah, and has continued research on the Pleistocene lake since then, including while he taught geology at Kansas State University (1985-2014). He has numerous published peer-reviewed journal articles on Lake Bonneville. Jack Shroder is an Editor-in-Chief at Elsevier, and has extensive experience with publishing peer-reviewed journal articles and books on numerous topics related to geomorphology and Afghanistan, among many other specialties. He is the author of over 200 scientific papers and books on geoscientific topics characteristic of high mountain environments, especially landslides, glaciers, and floods.

Reviews

"The overall presentation and quality of the finished product are worth commending. It is hardbound with a wonderful cover image of Gilbert’s (1890) original map of Lake Bonneville that depicts his routes of travel, a useful reminder of the field-based data collection necessary to initiate and sustain such research. The volume contains excellent figure reproduction, including many detailed maps that reflect a commitment to effective cartographic design. It also includes comprehensive tables that compile a remarkable quantity of previously published and novel empirical data. Chapters are organized in an intuitive and creative manner, using a combination of chronological and disciplinary approaches.

Nevertheless, it maintains something of a narrative quality, which is a feature common to much outstanding scholarship in the earth sciences." --The AAG Review of Books