CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

ORGANIZERS

  • Harvey Thorleifson, Chair
    Minnesota Geological Survey
  • Carrie Jennings, Vice Chair
    Minnesota Geological Survey
  • David Bush, Technical Program Chair
    University of West Georgia
  • Jim Miller, Field Trip Chair
    University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Curtis M. Hudak, Sponsorship Chair
    Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC

 

Session No. 194
Tuesday, 11 October 2011: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room L100FG (Minneapolis Convention Center)

Geomorphology

 

Nicholas Pinter and Lisa E. Osterman, Chairs
Paper #
Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1
1:45 PM
APLITE COLLUVIUM AND DUST INFLUX PRODUCE ACCRETIONARY HILLSLOPE SOILS IN THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO
PERSICO, Lyman P.1, MCFADDEN, Leslie2, FRECHETTE, Jedediah2 and MEYER, Grant A.3, (1)Geology Department, Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA 16546, (2)Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (3)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, lpersico@mercyhurst.edu, lpersico@mercyhurst.edu
2
2:00 PM
Withdrawn
3
2:15 PM
LOESS PSEUDOKARST IN WEST-CENTRAL NEBRASKA: PIPING, COLLAPSE, CATASTROPHIC DRAINAGE, GULLYING, AND CANYON DEVELOPMENT
GOEKE, J.W.1, JOECKEL, R.M.2 and KUZILA, M.S.1, (1)CSD, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0996, (2)CSD, School of Natural Resources, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and U.N. State Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0996, jgoeke1@unl.edu, jgoeke1@unl.edu
4
2:30 PM
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF COASTAL CHANGE IN THE MOBILE BAY ESTUARY, NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO
OSTERMAN, Lisa E. and SMITH, Christopher G., St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 600 Fourth St. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, osterman@usgs.gov, osterman@usgs.gov
5
2:45 PM
COUPLED NUMERICAL MODELING OF PASSIVE MARGIN ESCARPMENT EVOLUTION AND OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION
ANDERS, Alison M.1, COLBERG, Jessica S.1 and NESBITT, Stephen2, (1)Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 245 Natural History Building, 1301 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, (2)Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, 105 S Gregory St, M/C 223, Urbana, IL 61801, amanders@uiuc.edu, amanders@uiuc.edu
6
3:00 PM
MARINE TERRACES, PALAEOLITHIC HOMININS, AND STONE AGE SEAFARING: TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY ABOVE THE HELLENIC SUBDUCTION ZONE, CRETE, GREECE
WEGMANN, Karl, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, RUNNELS, Curtis, Archaeology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, STRASSER, Thomas F., Department of Art and Art History, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918, MCCOY, Floyd W., Department of Natural Sciences, Univ Hawaii - Windward College, Kaneohe, HI 96744, GALLEN, Sean, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, 2800 Faucette Drive, Rm. 1125 Jordan Hall, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 and PANAGOPOULOU, Eleni, Ephoria of Paleoanthropology and Speleology of Southern Greece, Athens, 11636, Greece, karl_wegmann@ncsu.edu, karl_wegmann@ncsu.edu
7
3:15 PM
INTERACTION OF BED TOPOGRAPHY, FLOW TURBULENCE AND SEDIMENT TRANSPORT: HARNESSING THE POWER OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS FOR IMPROVING PREDICTIVE ABILITY IN REAL RIVERS
FOUFOULA-GEORGIOU, Efi and SINGH, Arvind, Department of Civil Engineering and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55414, efi@umn.edu, efi@umn.edu
8
3:30 PM
FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY APPLIED: LEVEE SAFETY AND FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
PINTER, Nicholas, Geology Department, Southern Illinois University, SIU Parkinson Lab 203, Mailcode: 4325, Carbondale, IL 62901-4325, HEINE, Reuben A., Dept. of Geography, Augustana College, 639 38th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201, FLOR, Andrew, Florida Geological Survey, 903 West Tennessee Street MS #720, Tallahassee, FL 32304-7700 and REMO, Jonathan W.F., Deptarment of Geography and Environmental Resources, Southern Illinois University, 1000 Fanner Drive, MC 4531, Carbondale, IL 62901, npinter@geo.siu.edu, npinter@geo.siu.edu
 
3:45 PM
Break
9
4:00 PM
EVOLUTION OF EXPERIMENTAL LANDFORM WITH RAINFALL EROSION AND UPLIFT
OUCHI, Shunji, College of Sci and Engineering, Chuo Univ, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan, souchi@kc.chuo-u.ac.jp, souchi@kc.chuo-u.ac.jp
10
4:15 PM
UNDERSTANDING SPECIFIC PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH OSL DATING IN ACTIVE TECTONIC SETTINGS
RHODES, Edward J., LAWSON, Mike, STANG, Dallon and RODER, Belinda, Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 595 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095, erhodes@ess.ucla.edu, erhodes@ess.ucla.edu
11
4:30 PM
LINKS BETWEEN TOPOGRAPHY, TECTONISM, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND LITHOLOGY: INSIGHTS FROM THE STUDY ON THE DANXIA LANDFORM
REN, Fang and ENCARNACIÓN, John, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis University, 205 O'Neil Hall, 3642 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis City, MO 63108, fren@slu.edu, fren@slu.edu
12
4:45 PM
A HOLOCENE CARBON STORAGE PERSPECTIVE ON COLLUVIAL AND ALLUVIAL SEDIMENT STORAGE IN THE RHINE BASIN
HOFFMANN, Thomas, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 166, Bonn, 53115, Germany, thomas.hoffmann@uni-bonn.de, thomas.hoffmann@uni-bonn.de
13
5:00 PM
WEATHERING PATTERNS ON THE JURASSIC NAVAJO SANDSTONE IN GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE AND VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MICROCLIMATES
PINTA, Steven M. and CHAN, Marjorie, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 115 South 1460 East, Room 383 FASB, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, steve.pinta@utah.edu, steve.pinta@utah.edu
14
5:15 PM
IS THERE A FINITE NUMBER OF SANDSTONE WEATHERING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE HUMID TEMPERATE ZONE OF EUROPE
ADAMOVIC, Jiri1, MIKULAS, Radek1 and SCHWEIGSTILLOVA, Jana2, (1)Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences CR, Rozvojova 269, Praha 6, CZ 165 02, Czech Republic, (2)Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Academy of Sciences CR, V Holesovickach 41, Praha 8, CZ 182 09, Czech Republic, adamovic@gli.cas.cz, adamovic@gli.cas.cz
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