Salt dissolution features in saline lakes of the northern Great Plains, western Canada

Auteur :
LAST, W.M.

Description :
Large-scale salt dissolution is an important process affecting the sediments of many of the saline lakes in the northern Great Plains region of western Canada. The most easily recognized features of this salt karst are water-filled chimneys, vertical shafts, and collapse structures. Because these salt karst features can affect large vertical sections of the sediment fill in the lakes, their recognition is of fundamental importance in attempting to use the stratigraphic records of the basins for paleoenvironmental research.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geomorphology (Amsterdam), issn : 0169-555X, 1993, vol. 8, n°. 4, p. 321-334, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 51 réf.

Date :
1993

Editeur :
Pays édition : Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Elsevier