Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Hydrochemistry of Bristol Dry Lake, California, U.S.A.

• Autores: Michael R. Rosen
• Localización: Lake basins through space and time / coord. por Elizabeth H. Gierlowski-Kordesch, K. Kelts, 2000, ISBN 0891810528, págs. 597-604
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bristol Dry Lake is situated in the Mojave Desertregion of southeastern San Bernardino County near Amboy, California (Figure 1). It is the largest (155 km-)in a system of three northwest-southeast trending dry lakes (playas) located in a structural trough between the Bristol and Sheep hole Mountains to the north and the Bullion Mountains to the south. This location is one of the most arid places in the U.S.; consequently, Bristol Dry Lake is filled with over 500 m of sediment in the basin center, of which 260 m is almost pure halite. Due to the position of the basins and the amount of sediment that these basins contain, the Bristol-CadizDanby Dry Lake system is important in determining the structural, hydrological, and paleoclimatic development of the Mojave region since the Pliocene.