Fawcett 1 Two Middle Pleistocene Glacial-Interglacial Cycles from the Valle Grande, Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico

• Main Authors: Peter J. Fawcett Jeff Heikoop, John W. Geissman, Giday Woldegabriel, Craig D. Allen, Catrina M. Johnson, Susan J, Julianna Fessenden-rahn
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Valles; Antarc*; ice core
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.544.4682; http://www2.nau.edu/envsci/faculty/ScottAnderson/docs/106_NMGS manuscript 2007.pdf

A long-lived middle Pleistocene lake formed in the Valle Grande, a large moat valley of the Valles Caldera in northern New Mexico, when a post-caldera eruption (South Mountain rhyolite) dammed the drainage out of the caldera. The deposits of this lake were cored in May 2004 (GLAD5 project, hole VC-3...