Lakes pluvial

PARRY (W.T.) and REEVES (C.C.), 1966. Lacustrine glauconitic mica from pluvial Lake Mound, Lynn and Terry Counties, Texas. Amer. Min. 51. 229-35. 

Walker Lake. Walker Lake, located in west-central Nevada, is a remnant of pluvial Lake Lahontan, which, at its high stand, had a depth of 280 meters (21). Walker Lake is the terminus of the Walker River. Although its salinity is only 30% that of seawater, its sulfate concentration is identical to that of seawater (0.028 mol/L). The Walker Lake samples represent 300,000 years of depositional history (Yang, unpublished report). Preliminary interpretations of paleontological and mineralogical data (Benson and Spencer, written communication) suggest that lake levels have fluctuated. 

Harvey, A.M., Wigand, P.E. Wells, S.G. (1999) Response of alluvial fan systems to the late Pleistocene to Holocene climatic transition contrasts between the margins of pluvial Lakes Lahontan and Mojave, Nevada and California, USA. Catena 36, 255-281. 

Benson, L. V. (1978) Fluctuations in the level of pluvial Lake Lahontan for the past 40,000 years. Quaternary Research 9, 300-318. 

Parry, W. T. C. C. Reeves, 1968. Clay mineralogy of pluvial lake sediments, southern High Plains, Texas. J. Sed. Petrol. 38 516-529. 

Smith, G.I. and Street-Perrott, F.A. (1983) Pluvial lakes of the western United States. In Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States, vol. 1 (ed. H.E. Wright, Jr.), Longman Group, London. 

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