Sedimentologic Evidence For A Glacial Outburst Flood And Resulting Debris Flow; Puget Lowland, Washington State

• Main Authors: Futornick, Z. O., Goldstein, Barry S., Parker, Brittany L., Pringle, Patrick T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sound Ideas 2008
• Subjects: geomorphology; 23; cascade range; clastic sediments; debris flows; diamicton; glacial geology; ice sheets; igneous rocks; jokulhlaups; landform evolution; lava; lily creek formation; mass movements; mount rainier; pierce county washington; processes; puget lobe ice sheet; puget lowland; pyroclastics; sediments; till; united states; volcanic rocks; washington; Dammed Lake; Glacial Lake; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/faculty_pubs/2291

In the Puget Lowland of Washington State, recent evidence shows that several diamictons previously identified as glacial till are instead the result of a high-magnitude debris flow. Glacial deposits dominate much of the Puget Lowland and have been identified as mostly angular rocks of intrusive igne...