2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
Session No. 45 Sunday, 16 October 2005
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Salt Palace Convention Center: Ballroom E

T56. Carving the Western Landscape: The Evolution of the Colorado Drainage from Source to Sink

Joel L. Pederson and Kyle House, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
45-11:35 PM A HEARTBREAKING STREAM OF STAGGERING COMPLEXITY: WHAT THE PIONEER GEOLOGISTS KNEW AND DIDN'T KNOW; WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T*: POWELL, James L., 1220 Poppy Valley Road, Buellton, CA 93427, jpowell@usc.edu
45-21:55 PM A SUMMARY OF IDEAS ON THE TIMING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ROCK AND SURFACE UPLIFT ACROSS THE COLORADO PLATEAU: ROY, Mousumi, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, mroy@unm.edu
45-32:15 PM THERMOCHRONOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS ON TERTIARY EROSIONAL EXHUMATION AND INCISION OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU – A PROGRESS REPORT: STOCKLI, Daniel F., Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, stockli@ku.edu
45-42:30 PM DOES THE MUDDY CREEK FORMATION SUPPORT AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR THE EVOLUTION OF A PRE-COLORADO RIVER CANYON?: YOUNG, Richard A., Geological Sciences, State University of NY at Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454, young@geneseo.edu
45-52:45 PM THE LAST-STANDING HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE PATH AND INTEGRATION OF THE LATE MIOCENE COLORADO RIVER OFF THE COLORADO PLATEAU: PEDERSON, Joel, Geology, utah state univeristy, 4505 old main hill, logan, UT 84322, bolo@cc.usu.edu
45-63:00 PM TERMINAL MIOCENE ARRIVAL OF COLORADO RIVER SAND IN THE SALTON TROUGH, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR INITIATION OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER DRAINAGE: DORSEY, Rebecca J.1, FLUETTE, Amy2, MCDOUGALL, Kristin3, HOUSEN, Bernard A.2, and JANECKE, Susanne U.4, (1) Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1272, rdorsey@uoregon.edu, (2) Dept. of Geology (ES 236), 516 High St, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9080, (3) Flagstaff Science Center, U. S. Geological Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Dr, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, (4) Dept. of Geology, 4505 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-4505
45-73:20 PM SOME EVIDENCE FOR A LACUSTRINE ORIGIN FOR THE LOWER PLIOCENE BOUSE FORMATION, LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY, SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A: SPENCER, Jon E.1, PEARTHREE, Philip A.1, PATCHETT, P. Jonathan2, and HOUSE, P. Kyle3, (1) Arizona Geol Survey, 416 W. Congress Street, Suite 100, Tucson, AZ 85701, jon.spencer@azgs.az.gov, (2) Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85704, (3) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0088
 3:40 PM Break
45-83:55 PM TEPHROCHRONOLOGIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE INCEPTION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER SUPPORT LACUSTRINE OVERFLOW AS THE PRINCIPAL FORMATIVE MECHANISM: HOUSE, P. Kyle, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, khouse@unr.edu, PEARTHREE, Philip, Arizona Geological Survey, 416 W. Congress St. #100, Tucson, AZ 85701, and PERKINS, Michael, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
45-94:10 PM EPISODIC INCISION OF COLORADO RIVER IN GLEN CANYON, UTAH: GARVIN, Cristofer D., POBox 5120, Santa Monica, CA 90409, CDGarvin@Alum.Dartmouth.org, HANKS, Thomas C., United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, 94025, FINKEL, Robert C., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 94550, and HEIMSATH, Arjun M., Dartmouth College, Hanover, 03755
45-104:25 PM RATES OF FLUVIAL INCISION AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN THE FREMONT RIVER BASIN, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO PLATEAU: MARCHETTI, David W., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 135 S 1460 E Room 719, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, dwmarche@mines.utah.edu, DOHRENWEND, John C., Southwest Satellite Imaging, PO Box 141, 223 South State Street, Teasdale, UT 84773-0141, and CERLING, Thure E., Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 S 1460 E Room 719, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
45-114:40 PM ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE MEGALANDSLIDES IN THE COLORADO RIVER CORRIDOR, ARIZONA: WATKINS, Conor and ROGERS, J. David, Dept. of Geological Sciences And Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla, 129 McNutt Hall, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409, cwatkin@umr.edu
45-124:55 PM LUMINESCENCE GEOCHRONOLOGY AND CORRELATIONS OF TERRACE DEPOSITS OF COLORADO RIVER TRIBUTARIES WITHIN THE GRAND CANYON AND GRAND WASH TROUGH, NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA: RITTENOUR, Tammy M., Department of Geology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, tammyr@cc.usu.edu, SHARP, Warren, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709, PEDERSON, Joel, Geology, utah state univeristy, 4505 old main hill, logan, UT 84322, and KARLSTROM, Karl, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, MSCO3-2040; 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
45-135:10 PM ALLUVIAL FAN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE ALONG THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER: HANSON, Paul R., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, P.O. Box 880340, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, phanson4@bigred.unl.edu

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