Defining Regional and Local Sediment Sources in the Ancestral Colorado River System: A Heavy Mineral Study of a Mixed Provenance Unit in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, Southern California

Defining Regional and Local Sediment Sources in the Ancestral Colorado River System: A Heavy Mineral Study of a Mixed Provenance Unit in the Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, Southern California

The Colorado River has flowed across the dextral strike-slip plate boundary between the North American and Pacific plates since the latest Miocene or earliest Pliocene. The Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin (FCVB) lies on the Pacific Plate in southern California, dextrally offset from the point where the m...

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Main Authors: Paula McGill, Uisdean Nicholson, Dirk Frei, David Macdonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
Series:Geosciences
Subjects:
sediment flux
axial and lateral supply
California
Colorado River
heavy minerals
palaeotopography
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/13/2/45

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