Re: Green River varves

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Mon, 05 Jan 1998 22:11:58 -0600

At 08:32 AM 1/5/98 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>At 06:44 PM 1/4/98 -0600, Glen wrote:
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>>Art, the last time you and I crossed swords on this issue, we agreed that
>>Buchheim was working at Fossil Lake, not Lake Gosuite.
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>This has no bearing whatsoever on whether the laminae are varves. If they
>are not varves in Fossil Lake, they are not varves in Lake Gosiute or
>elsewhere in the basin.

But the Fossil lake deposit is in "Fossil Basin" according to Buchheim
(Palaeoenvironments, lithofacies and varves ..." Contributions to Geology
University of Wyoming, 30:1, P. 3

Gosuite is in the Green River Basin. I believe that there is an arch
between these two basins.

>But that aside, if you have not yet read Pittock's paper, I recommend that
>you do so. If you still think the cycles are real, we can discuss that

I will order it.

>further.
>Art
>http://chadwicka.swau.edu
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glenn

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