Depositional origin of Mima mounds

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Creator	Paeth, Robert C.
Abstract	An investigation was conducted to determine the origin of Mima mounds in Jackson County, Oregon and Thurston County, Washington. Data on soil morphology, mineralogy, and particle size distribution were used to test the periglacial ice wedge hypothesis, the gopher hypothesis, the erosional hypothesis, and the loess hypothesis. The results of this investigation show that these hypotheses do not satisfactorily explain the origin of Mima mounds. The conditions of an acceptable hypothesis are given and a depositional theory on the origin of Mima mounds is suggested within the framework of these conditions.
Resource Type	Masters Thesis
Date Available	2009-11-20T17:16:42+00:00
Date Issued	1967-01-19
Degree Level	Master's
Degree Name	Master of Science (M.S.)
Degree Field	Soils
Degree Grantor	Oregon State University
Commencement Year	1967
Advisor	Knox, Ellis G.
Academic Affiliation	Soils
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Graduate School
Subject	Sediments (Geology) -- Washington (State) -- Thurston County Sediments (Geology) -- Oregon -- Jackson County
Rights Statement	Copyright Not Evaluated
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
Digitization Specifications	PDF derivative scanned at 300 ppi (256 B&W, 256 Grayscale, 24-bit Color), using Capture Perfect 3.0.82, on a Canon DR-9080C. CVista PdfCompressor 4.0 was used for pdf compression and textual OCR.
Replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/1957/13439

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