Articles | Volume 26
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-26-59-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-26-59-2019
Workshop report
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02 Dec 2019
Workshop report |  | 02 Dec 2019

The Bouse Formation, a controversial Neogene archive of the evolving Colorado River: a scientific drilling workshop report (28 February–3 March 2019 – BlueWater Resort & Casino, Parker, AZ, USA)

Andrew Cohen, Colleen Cassidy, Ryan Crow, Jordon Bright, Laura Crossey, Rebecca Dorsey, Brian Gootee, Kyle House, Keith Howard, Karl Karlstrom, and Philip Pearthree

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Bright, J., Cohen, A. S., Dettman, D. L., and Pearthree, P. A.: Freshwater plumes and brackish lakes: integrated microfossil and O-C-Sr isotopic evidence from the late Miocene and early Pliocene Bouse Formation (California-Arizona) support a lake overflow model for the integration of the lower Colorado River corridor, Geosphere, 14, 1875–1911, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01610.1, 2018a. 
Bright, J., Cohen, A. S., and Starratt, S.: Distinguishing brackish lacustrine from brackish marine deposits in the stratigraphic record: A case study from the late Miocene and early Pliocene Bouse Formation, Arizona and California, USA, Earth Sci. Rev., 185, 974–1003, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.08.011, 2018b. 
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This paper summarizes a workshop held in Parker, AZ, USA, to discuss planned scientific drilling in the Miocene(?) or early Pliocene Bouse Formation, a controversial deposit (of lacustrine, marine, or some hybrid origin) found in the lower Colorado River valley. The drilling project is intended to address this controversy as well as shed light on Pliocene climates of southwestern North America during an important period of past climate change.