Constraints on mantle viscosity and Laurentide ice sheet evolution from pluvial paleolake shorelines in the western United States

• Main Authors: Austermann, J, Chen, CY, Lau, HCP, Maloof, AC, Latychev, K
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2020
• Subjects: Lake Bonneville; Lake Lahontan; paleoshorelines; glacial isostatic adjustment; mantle viscosity; Laurentide ice sheet; Physical Sciences; Earth Sciences; Geochemistry & Geophysics; Bonneville Lake; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vn6d215

The deformation pattern of the paleoshorelines of extinct Lake Bonneville were among the first features to indicate that Earth's interior responds viscoelastically to changes in surface loads (Gilbert, 1885). Here we revisit and extend this classic study of isostatic rebound with updated lake c...