Fine-grained flood sediment


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This thinnly bedded glacial outburst flood sediment exposed in Eureka Flat has a similar grain size distribution to the thin (<1 m) loess capping the outcrop. The flood sediment is the source for much of the Palouse loess.

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Mark Sweeney, University of South Dakota
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