EP53A:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes General Contributions Posters

Session ID#: 1916

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  J. Toby Minear, USGS, Baltimore, United States and Leonard S Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Leonard S Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • G - Geodesy
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
First Observation of Rock Motion on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park—Role of a Persistent Pool, Sun, Zephyrs, Windowpane Ice, and Tugboats (28841)
Richard D Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and James Norris, Interwoof, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Process Domains in Synthetic Landscapes: Slope-Area Relationships in the Mountaintop Mining Region of Central Appalachia. (9519)
Kristin L Jaeger, Ohio State University, Wooster, United States and Matthew R. V. Ross, Colorado State University, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
GIS Analysis of Size Relationships between Drainage Basins and Alluvial Fans (14374)
Sarah N Wright, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Louis A Scuderi, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Gary S Weissmann, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Adrian J Hartley, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
 
Latitudinal Controls on Topography: The Role of Precipitation and Fluvial Erosion (16889)
Clayton Sorensen, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Brian J Yanites, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
 
How Long Is a Hillslope? (4587)
Stuart W D Grieve, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Simon M Mudd, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Tristram C Hales, Cardiff University, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom
 
Catchment Power and the Joint Distribution of Elevation and Travel Distance to the Outlet (20931)
Leonard S Sklar1, Clifford S Riebe2, Dino G. Bellugi3, Claire E Lukens4 and Catherine Noll1, (1)San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Life and Environmental Sciences, Laramie, United States
 
Relative Path Impact Index (RPII): a morphometric approach to quantify the effect of anthropogenic features on surface flow processes in agricultural landscapes (15602)
Massimo Prosdocimi1, Giulia Sofia1, Federico Preti2, Giancarlo Dalla Fontana1 and Prof. Paolo Tarolli1, (1)TESAF, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy, (2)University of Florence, DAGRI, Agriculture, Forestry and Biosystems Engineering Division, Florence, Italy
 
Quantitative Analysis of Spatial Variability of Neo-tectonic Indices along the Sabzpushan Fault Zone within the Zagros Mountains (26860)
Iman Nezamzadeh1,2, Ali Faghih2 and Behnam - Oveisi3, (1)California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Shiraz University, Earth Science, Shiraz, Iran, (3)Geological Survey of Iran, Seismotectonics Department, Tehran, Iran
 
Shortening rates in the Nepalese Himalaya derived from quantitative geomorphic analysis (28145)
Nooreen Amina Meghani, Penn State University, State College, PA, United States, Eric Kirby, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States and Tom G Farr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Quantifying Transient Incision to Determine the Timing and Style of Baselevel Change in Central Idaho (29851)
Jeffrey E Larimer, University of Idaho, Department of Geological Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States and Brian J Yanites, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
 
Lithologic Heterogeneity and Variable Valley Width in the Buffalo River Watershed, AR (29597)
Stephanie L Shepherd, Auburn University, Geology and Geography, Auburn, AL, United States and Amanda Keen-Zebert, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Lithological controls on bedrock river incision and valley formation in the eastern South African Interior (20278)
Amanda Keen-Zebert, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Stephen Tooth, Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom and Finlay M. Stewart, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center at the University of Glasgow, East Kilbride, United Kingdom
 
A Method to Approximate and Statistically Model the Shape of Triggered Landslides (29562)
Bruce D Malamud and Faith E Taylor, King's College London, Earth and Environmental Dynamics Research Group, Department of Geography, London, WC2R, United Kingdom
 
Cenozoic Uplift Rate History of South America from Inversion of River Profiles (9567)
Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences (Bullard Laboratories), Cambridge, United Kingdom, Nicholas J White, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Gareth G Roberts, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
 
The River Network, Active Tectonics and the Mexican Subduction Zone, Southwest Mexico (19224)
Krzysztof Gaidzik, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geografía, D.F., Mexico; Uniwersytet Śląski, Katedra Geologii Podstawowej, Sosnowiec, Poland, M. Teresa Ramirez-Herrera, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Laboratorio de Tsunamis y Paleosismología, Instituto de Geografía, Mexico City, Mexico, Vladimir Kostoglodov, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geofísica, D.F., Mexico and Roberto Basili, INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
 
Transient response of bedrock channel networks to sea-level forcing in the Oregon Coast Range, USA (19967)
David J Santaniello, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Noah J Finnegan, University of California - Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Quaternary Deformation of Sumba, Indonesia: Evidence from Carbonate Terraces (31486)
Maxwell Philip Dahlquist1, A. Joshua West1 and James Francis Dolan2, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
The Occurrence of Knickpoints in Soluble Strata in the Buffalo River Basin, Arkansas (17039)
Evan Thaler1, Matthew D Covington2, Joseph M Myre3, Matija Perne4 and Ginny Holcomb4, (1)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, United States, (2)University of Arkansas, Geosciences, Fayetteville, United States, (3)University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (4)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
 
Pool-Riffle Formation in Mountain Streams (9019)
Shawn M Chartrand and Marwan A Hassan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Dunes depth-scaling in rivers: A reanalysis of flume and field data (27441)
Ryan W Bradley and Jeremy G Venditti, Simon Fraser University, School of Environmental Science, Burnaby, BC, Canada
 
Geomorphological Mechanisms for the Formation and Self-maintenance of Pool-riffle Sequences (31787)
Esmaeel Bayat, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, Jose Fernando Rodriguez, The University of Newcastle, School of Engineering, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, Gustavo A. M. de Almeida, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom and Patricia M Saco, The University of Newcastle, Centre for Water Security and Environmental Sustainability and School of Engineering, Callaghan, Australia
 
Re-Envisioning Cross Sectional Hydraulic Geometry as Spatially Explicit Hydraulic Topography (29574)
Robert L Gonzalez, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Gregory B Pasternack, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
 
Magnitude and frequency analysis on river width widening caused by Typhoon Morakot in the Kaoping River watershed, Taiwan (17932)
Ssu-Yao Yang1, Chyan-Deng Jan2 and Yen-Cheng Wang1, (1)NCKU National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, (2)NCKU National Cheng Kung University, Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan
 
Spatial gradients in stream power and the implications for lateral and downstream transport of material during the 2013 Floods in Colorado and 2011 Irene Floods in Vermont, USA (29129)
John D Gartner1, Carl E Renshaw2, Frank J Magilligan1, Eirik M Buraas1, Evan Dethier3 and William Brian Dade1, (1)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Large wood dynamics in central Appalachian hemlock headwater ravines (22548)
Paul Soltesz1, Kristin L Jaeger2 and Katie H Costigan1, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State University, Wooster, United States
 
Geospatial Characterization of Fluvial Wood Arrangement in a Semi-confined Alluvial River (24188)
Derek J Martin, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, Carol P Harden, Univ Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States and Robert T Pavlowsky, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States
 
Late Quaternary mass-wasting records and formation of alluvial terraces in the actively uplifting Lao-nong catchment, southwestern Taiwan (19806)
Hsiu-Kuo Tsui1, Meng-Long Hsieh2, Wei Lun Li1 and Yu-Ta Hsiao1, (1)CCU National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan, (2)National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan
 
Sources of fine-grained sediment to streams using fallout radionuclides in the Midwestern United States (27779)
Allen C Gellis, USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States, Christopher Fuller, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Peter C Van Metre, USGS Texas Water Science Center, Austin, TX, United States
 
Bedload Transport Processes in Armored, Gravel-bed Channels: Impacts of Hydrograph Form (29832)
Megan Kenworthy, Center for Ecohydraulics Research, Boise, ID, United States, Elowyn Yager, University of Idaho, Center for Ecohydraulics Research, Moscow, ID, United States and Sarah M Yarnell, University of California Davis, Center for Watershed Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
 
Flow over gravel beds with clusters (28653)
Malcolm Little, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Jeremy G Venditti, Simon Fraser University, School of Environmental Science, Burnaby, BC, Canada
 
Connecting grain motion to large-scale fluctuations in bed load transport: The role of collective dynamics (31076)
Dylan Bentley Lee, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Douglas J Jerolmack, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States
 
Mechanics, kinematics and geometry of pebble abrasion from binary collisions (28354)
Kimberly Litwin Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Douglas J Jerolmack, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States
 
Two-Phase Abrasion in Eolian Transport of Gypsum Sand, White Sands NM (27271)
Sam Shaw, Douglas J Jerolmack and Kimberly Litwin Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
Minimum and Maximum Times Required to Obtain Representative Suspended Sediment Samples (24862)
Alex Gitto, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Jeremy G Venditti, Simon Fraser University, School of Environmental Science, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Ray Kostaschuk, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Michael A Church, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Modeling Transport of Flushed Reservoir Sediment (30552)
Ian M Dubinski, DHI Water and Environment, Inc., Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
 
Impacts of timber harvesting on historic sediment accumulation rates in the Coos Bay estuary, Oregon (26770)
Nathan Mathabane, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States and Josh J Roering, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, United States
 
The impact of glacial/interglacial climate changes on fluvial and mass-wasting processes in the Taiwan's mountains (15215)
Wei Lun Li1, Meng-Long Hsieh2, Hsiu-Kuo Tsui1 and Yu-Ta Hsiao1, (1)CCU National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan, (2)National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi County, Taiwan
 
Climatic and morphological controls on post-glacial lake and river valley evolution in the Weichselian belt – an example from the Wda valley, Northern Poland (15217)
Mirosław Błaszkiewicz1, Jan A Piotrowski2, Achim Brauer3, Piotr Gierszewski1, Jarosław Kordowski1, Mateusz Aleksander Kramkowski1, Piotr Lamparski1, Sebastian Lorenz4, Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz5, Florian Ott6, Michal M. Slowinski1,6 and Sebastian Tyszkowski7, (1)Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences,, Department of Environmental Resources and Geohazards, Torun, Poland, (2)Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 'Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution', Potsdam, Germany, (4)Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography and Geology, Physical Geography, Greifswald, Germany, (5)Nicholas Copernicus University, Institute of Archaeology, Torun, Poland, (6)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (7)Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Environmental Resources and Geohazards, Torun, Poland
 
Middle to late Holocene Climate and Human Impact upon Surficial Processes and Soil Chrono-seequences in the Apulian-Lucanian Border Area of the Southern Italian Interior  (17507)
Peter Ernest Wigand, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Anthony Taylor, Texas A & M University, Anthropology, College Station, TX, United States, Myles McCallum, Saint Mary's University, Modern Languages and Classics, Halifax, NS, Canada, Behnaz Balmaki, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States and Masoud Asgharian Rostami, University of Urbino, Department of Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences, Urbino, Italy
 
Late Quaternary Glaciation of the Naches River Drainage Basin, Washington Cascades (6991)
Helen Beatrice Sheffer, Lena Goss, Grant Shimer and Robert James Carson, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, United States
 
Stripping Away the Forest; Sweden's Glacially Streamlined Landscape Evaluated through Lidar (7122)
Thomas Dowling1, Matteo Spagnolo2 and Per Moller1, (1)Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (2)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
 
Glacial Erosion Rates from Bayesian Inversion of Cosmogenic Nuclide Concentrations in a Bedrock Core, Streaked Mtn., ME (20679)
Zachary Thomas Ploskey and John O Stone, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Physico-Mechanical Characteristics of Freeze–Thaw Weathered Gneiss based on Accelerated Laboratory Experiments (20901)
Jeong-Gi Um, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Did Groundwater Processes Shape the Saharan Landscape during the Previous Wet Periods? a Remote Sensing and Geostatistical Approach (3851)
Abotalib Z. A Farag1, Mohamed Sultan2, Racha Elkadiri3 and Ahmed Abdelhalim3, (1)Western Michigan Univiversity, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, United States, (2)Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, (3)Western Michigan Univ, Kalamazoo, MI, United States
 
Connecting Surface Planting with Subsurface Erosion Due to Groundwater Flow (11084)
Melissa Reardon, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Joanna Crowe Curran, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Assessing the Impacts of Climate, Groundwater and Land Use on Regional Geomorphology (16399)
Andrew Barkwith1, Martin D Hurst2, Michael A Ellis2 and Tom J Coulthard3, (1)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (2)British Geological Survey, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (3)University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
 
Monitoring Surface Moisture of Crater-fill Sediment in Extreme hydroclimatic conditions (Ubehebe Volcanic Field, Death Valley, California). (25648)
Rosalba Bonaccorsi1,2, Aaron Zent2 and Christopher P McKay2, (1)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Architecture of a Coarse-Grained Upper Middle Cambrian Alluvial Delta Dominated by Braidplain and Gilbert-Style Delta Components (20884)
Kate S Pound, Geology, Atmospheric & Hydrologic Sciences, St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN, United States
 
A Series of Stacked and Entrenched Fan Deltas at Lake General Carrera/Buenos Aires (Chile/Argentina) as Terrestrial Analog to Understand the Entrenchment of Martian Deltas (30050)
Gaetano Di Achille, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Astronomical Observatory of Collurania, Teramo, Italy and Francesco Salese, International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Chieti, Italy
 
Gravity Anomalies and Depths of Sedimentary of Mekong Delta Area, South of Vietnam (28968)
Liet Dang Van, VietNam Academy of Science and Technology, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, Vietnam and Vo Luong Hong Phuoc, University of Science – Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City, Dau Minh Son, Vietnam Petrolium Association, Luong Phuoc Toan, MienTay Construction University.
 
Hydrology and Sedimentology of a Series of Dam-Breach Paleolakes at Idaeus Fossae, Mars (9192)
Francesco Salese, International Research School Of Planetary Sciences - Università D'Annunzio, Pescara, Italy, Gaetano Di Achille, Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica - OATe Collurania, Teramo, Italy and Gian G Ori, Università d'Annunzio, International Research School of Planetary Sciences, Pescara, Italy
 
Airborne Hyperspectral Infrared Imaging Survey of the Southern San Andreas Fault (13991)
David K Lynch1, David M. Tratt2, Kerry N Buckland3 and Patrick D Johnson2, (1)USGS Pasadena Field Office, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Aerospace Corporation Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, United States
 
Hyperspectral Mapping of Iron-bearing Minerals Associated with Dry and Ephemeral Lakes (16564)
William H Farrand, Space Science Inst, Boulder, CO, United States and Brenda B. Bowen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Detrital zircon U-Pb provenance study in Cenozoic strata of the Pamir-Tianshan collision zone (22196)
Langtao Liu1, Aaron Bufe2, Jie Chen3, Douglas W Burbank2, Tao Li3 and Jessica A Thompson Jobe4, (1)Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (4)ConocoPhillips Company Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
Comparing Time-Dependent Geomagnetic and Atmospheric Effects on Cosmogenic Nuclide Production Rate Scaling (9599)
Nathaniel A Lifton, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States
 
Initial Test Determination of Cosmogenic Nuclides in Magnetite (22224)
Hiroshi Matsumura, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Radiation Science Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Marc W Caffee, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Keisuke Nagao, University of Tokyo, Geochemical Research Center, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan and Kunihiko Nishiizumi, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Research on Electrostatic Suspension Two-dimension Tiltmeter (25909)
Shuchao Wu1, YanZheng Bai1, Shaobo Qu1 and Zebing Zhou2, (1)Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, (2)Institute of Geophysics, HUST, Wuhan, China