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USGS Bear Lake Reports
Notice:
In the 1990s and continuing into the early 2000s, the USGS undertook a detailed study of Bear Lake sediments and the Bear Lake catchment to better understand past climates. Bear Lake was recognized as having unique attributes which make it a great repository of sedimentary records which, through study, would give insight into paleo climate change in the whole region. The efforts of the USGS personnel resulted in the writing of 14 technical papers, plus an introduction, which were subsequently published in GSA Special Paper 450. Three additional papers were prepared but not published by GSA. All of these papers were provided to the Bear River Commission by the USGS for posting on this website. They can be accessed below, along with a summary of each of the papers prepared by Commission staff as a guide in understanding these papers.A Bear River Commission Staff Summary of the USGS Studies of Bear Lake and Its Catchment - USGS studies bear lake summary
Introduction to Paleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, and Its Catchment - USGS studies bear lake
Climatic and Limnologic Setting of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Geology and Geomorphology of Bear Lake Valley and Upper Bear River, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Late Quaternary Sedimentary Features of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Isotope and Major-ion Chemistry of Groundwater in Bear Lake Valley, Utah and Idaho, with Emphasis on the Bear River Range - USGS studies bear lake
Radiocarbon Ages and Age Models for the Past 30,000 Years in Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Allogenic Sedimentary Components of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Endogenic Carbonate Sedimentation in Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, Over the Last Two Glacial-Interglacial Cycles - USGS studies bear lake
Ostracode Endemism in Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
A 19,000-year Vegetation and Climate Record for Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
A 19,000-year Record of Hydrologic and Climatic Change Inferred from Diatoms from Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
The Glacial/Deglacial History of Sedimentation in Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Sedimentary Constraints on Late Quaternary Lake-Level Fluctuations at Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Paleomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism of GLAD800 Sediment Cores from Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
A Quarter-Million Years of Paleoenvironmental Change at Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
A Continuous 250,000 Yr. Record of Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes in Ostracode and Bulk-Sediment Carbonate from Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Age Model for a Continuous, ca 250-ka Quaternary Lacustrine Record from Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho - USGS studies bear lake
Unusual Halocene and Late Pleistocene Carbonate Sedimentation in Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, USA - USGS studies bear lake