EP53A
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes: General Contributions Posters

Friday, 18 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  J. Toby Minear, USGS Central Region Office, Lakewood, CO, United States
Conveners:  Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Leonard S Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Chairs:  J. Toby Minear, USGS Central Region Office, Lakewood, CO, United States, Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Leonard S Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Examining the Relationship Between Suspended Sand Load and Bedload on the Colorado River Using Concurrent Measurements of Suspended Sand and Observations of Sand Dune Migration. (63654)
Thomas Ashley1, Brandon J McElroy1, Daniel Buscombe2, Paul E Grams3 and Matthew A Kaplinski4, (1)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
How High Do Sandbars Grow? (63938)
Jason S Alexander and Brandon J McElroy, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Hierarchical controls on native larval lamprey habitat in the Umpqua basin, southwestern Oregon, U.S.A. (74647)
Krista Jones1, Joseph Mangano1, Mackenzie Karli Keith1, Jim E O'Connor2, Jason Dunham3, Michael Heck3 and Daniel R. Wise1, (1)USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States, (2)USGS, Portland, OR, United States, (3)USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Pool-riffle Maintenance in Mountain Streams (80918)
Shawn M Chartrand, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Fluvial Landforms and Landscape Transformations on a Large River Floodplain: Willamette River, Oregon, USA (77158)
Rose Wallick, USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States
 
Multi-frequency acoustic derivation of particle size using ’off-the-shelf” ADCPs. (81378)
Daniel R Haught, Simon Fraser University Library, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Scott A Wright, U.S. Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States, Jeremy G Venditti, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Michael A Church, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Distinguishing the Transition Reach between Torrent and River Using Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Morphology in River Course (77360)
Fang Yi Chu, Su Chin Chen and Hsuan Pei An, National Chung Hsing University, Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Taichung, Taiwan
 
Variations of sediment size and size distribution along a river (77692)
Chyan-Deng Jan, Yi-Chieh Tsai and Ssu-Yao Yang, NCKU National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
 
Revelation of the interactions between bedload and turbulent flow in open channels using a LES-DEM coupled model (82778)
Xiaofeng Liu1, Detian Liu1 and Xudong Fu2, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
 
Estimation of Channel-Forming Discharge and Large-Event Geomorphic Response Using HEC-RAS (83443)
Paul Hamilton, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States
 
A New Method for Measuring River Sinuosity across Varying Length Scales (85957)
Tiffany Liu, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Kerri N Johnson, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
River Incision and Knickpoints on the Flank of the Yellowstone Hotspot — Alpine Canyon of the Snake River, Wyoming (58251)
Daphnee Tuzlak, Utah State University, Geology Department, Logan, UT, United States and Joel Lawrence Pederson, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Fluvial Responses to Growth Faulting in the West Pearl River, Louisiana (58509)
Stephen Anthony Prosser, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
 
The Influence of Dissolution on Bedrock Channel Evolution: Insights from Modelling and Field Observations (69378)
Evan Thaler, Joseph M Myre and Matthew D Covington, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
 
How a stationary knickpoint is sustained: new insights into the formation of the deep Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge (76486)
Wang Yizhou, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China
 
On the Physical Basis of Rate Law Formulations for River Evolution, and their Applicability to the Simulation of Evolution after Earthquakes (77720)
Chenge An1, Gary Parker2 and Xudong Fu1, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
The Formation of Fluvial Channels on Alba Mons, Mars (66671)
Karin Eva Lehnigk, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States and William Brent Garry, NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The Lilesville Gravels: A Neogene Strath Terrace Deposit from the Piedmont/Coastal Plain Boundary of North Carolina, USA (75010)
John A Diemer, Rufus McLean, Andy R Bobyarchick and George Xanthos, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
 
Absolute Dating of Strath Terraces along the Western High Plains Reveals Complicated History of Occupation and Incision (61556)
Melissa A Foster, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR and Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Robert S Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Harrison J Gray, University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Shannon Mahan, United States Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States
 
Volume of Valley Networks on Mars and Its Hydrologic Implications (82138)
Wei Luo1, Xuezhi Cang1, Alan D Howard2 and Joon Heo3, (1)Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States, (2)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Granular Solid-liquid Transition: Experiment and Simulation (59252)
Minglong Fei, Xiaorong Xu and Qicheng Sun, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory for Hydroscience and Engineering, Beijing, China
 
Upland Processes and Controls on September 2013 Debris Flows, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (63492)
Annette Irene Patton, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Sara L Rathburn, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Eric Bilderback, National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, Lakewood, CO, United States
 
Experimental Investigation on Dry Granular Flows Driven by Gravity (73075)
Sabrina Meninno, Aronne Armanini and Michele Larcher, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
 
Bulk Friction Angles in Dry, Drained, and Saturated Gravel Beds (80733)
Samuel Holo, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Melt water-driven gully formation in Moni Crater, Mars (86661)
Natalie Hanson Glines1,2, Virginia C Gulick1,2 and Patrick Moriishi Freeman2,3, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Equivalent-bodyforce Approach on Modeling Elastic Dislocation Problem Using Finite Element Method (63069)
Bei Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Huai Zhang, GUCAS Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Yaolin Shi, UCAS University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
The Influence of Hillslope Steepness on Sediment Supply Size Distribution along Rivers Draining the Colorado Front Range (59126)
Moana Mai Sato, Community College of Denver, Denver, CO, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Charles M. Shobe, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States and Gregory E Tucker, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Rockfall-Talus Process-Response Systems in the Canadian Rockies, Canada (62972)
Prasamsa Thapa, Yvonne E Martin and Edward A Johnson, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Using Three-Dimensional Passive Seismic Imaging to Capture Near-Surface Weathering and Its Influence on Overlying Vegetation (66590)
Nicholas James Taylor1, Ken George Dueker2, Clifford S Riebe2, Po Chen2, Brady A Flinchum2 and Steve Holbrook2, (1)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Impacts of Wildfire on Hawaii Island’s Pre-Contact Landscape (67468)
Jonathan D Stock1, Kai'ena Bishaw2, John P McGeehin3, Kimberlie S Perkins4, Britta Austin1 and Patrick Kirch5, (1)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii Cooperative Studies Unit, Hilo, HI, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (4)USGS,, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Anthropology, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Influence of Anthropogenic Land-Use Change on Hillslope Erosion in the Waipaoa River Basin (72443)
Corina Cerovski-Darriau, University of Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States and Joshua J Roering, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Morphogenetic Role of Rainsplash Transport in Hillslope Evolution in Post-Orogenic Landscapes (74275)
Thomas Dunne, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Kieran Bernard Jiamin Dunne, University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Daniel V Malmon, CH2M,, Portland,, OR, United States
 
A Numerical Model to Assess Soil Fluxes from Meteoric 10Be Data (74531)
Gerard Govers, KU Leuven, Earth&Env. Sciences, Leuven, Belgium and Benjamin Campforts, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
 
Granular controls of hillslope deformation and creep  (75460)
Behrooz Ferdowsi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Douglas J Jerolmack, Univ of PA-Earth &Envir Scienc, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
Potential Influence of Perchlorate on Heavy Metals and Organic Carbon in Serpentine Soil; Implications for Martian Regolith (76521)
Prasanna Rumesh Kumarathilaka1, Christopher Oze2, Srimathie Indraratne3 and Meththika S Vithanage1, (1)Institute of Fundamental Studies, Chemical and Environmental Systems Modeling Research Group, Kandy, Sri Lanka, (2)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (3)University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
 
Brittle deformation and hoodoo development in Bryce Canyon National Park (77299)
Elizabeth Karen Haddon, San Francisco State University, Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Relationship between Rock Varnish and Adjacent Mineral Dust Compositions Using Microanalytical Techniques (78085)
Dorothea Macholdt1, Klaus P Jochum1, Laura Otter1, Brigitte Stoll1, Ulrike Weis1, Christopher Pöhlker1, Maren Müller2, Michael Kappl2, Bettina Weber1, A.L. David Kilcoyne3, Markus Weigand4, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Amri5 and Meinrat O Andreae1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, (5)King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 
 
Using Geomorphic and Geologic Parameters to Identify Optimal Endemic Wēkiu Bug Habitat on the Summit of Maunakea, Hawai‘i (84540)
Nathan M Stephenson, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science, Hilo, HI, United States, Ryan L Perroy, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Geography and Environmental Studies, Hilo, HI, United States, Jesse Eiben, University of Hawaii at Hilo, CAFNRM, Hilo, HI, United States and Fritz Klasner, Office of Maunakea Managment, Natural Resources, Hilo, HI, United States
 
The End of Monterey Submarine Canyon Incision and Potential River Source Areas-Os, Nd, and Pb Isotope Constraints from Hydrogenetic Fe-Mn Crusts (73952)
Tracey A Conrad1, Sune Nielsen2, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink Ehrenbrink2, Jerzy Blusztajn3, James R Hein4 and Adina Paytan5, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)WHOI, Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)UCSC-Inst Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Tsunami waves extensively resurfaced the shorelines of a receding, early Martian ocean (74507)
Alexis Palmero Rodriguez1, Alberto Fairen2,3, Rogelio Linares4, Mario Zarroca4, Thomas Platz5, Goro Komatsu6, Jeffrey S Kargel7, Virginia C Gulick8, Jianguo Yan9, Kana Higuchi3, Victor R Baker7 and Natalie Hanson Glines10, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain, (4)Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Val, Spain, (5)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (6)University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (9)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, (10)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Fluvial and oceanographic controls on clinoform architecture in the Gulf of Papua (74527)
Emily Ann-Yi Wei, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Neal W Driscoll, Scripps Institution of Oceanog, La Jolla, CA, United States and John D Milliman, Virginia Inst Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
 
Ultralow Viscosity of Earth’s Near Surface Material Inferred from PBO Borehole Strainmeter Data (67026)
Zhou Lu1 and Lianxing Wen1,2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
Impacts and Ophiolites: A Way to Recognize Large Terrestrial Impact Basins? (83013)
Eric P Olds, College of Alameda, Alameda, CA, United States
 
 
Mapping the Cerrado vegetation classes using Rapid Eye imagery (86702)
Fernanda Ribeiro, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Dunes Around Khnifiss Lagoon (Tarfaya, SW of Morocco): Composition, Itinerary In Dune Fields, Effects on Dunes’ Colours and Morphodynamic (65516)
Manare Adnani1, Mohamed Amine Azzaoui1, Hicham Elbelrhiti2, Mfedal Ahmamou1 and Lhoussaine Masmoudi1, (1)Mohammed V University, Laboratoire d’Electronique et de Traitement du Signal/ Géomatique (LETS/Géomat), Rabat, Morocco, (2)Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Département des Sciences Fondamentales et Appliquées, Rabat, Morocco
 
Mapping fire events in the transition of Amazon and Cerrado biome using remote sensing (86733)
Gabriel Antunes Daldegan, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Radar signatures of sediment availability-limited dune-fields and playas on Earth as a Titan analog. (82774)
Jonathan Cameron Epps, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, United States and Ryan C Ewing, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Coarse-grained fluvial lithofacies associated with the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Huerfano Basin, Colorado, USA. (68530)
Dirk Rasmussen1, Brady Foreman1 and Henry C Fricke2, (1)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, (2)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
 
Shallow subsurface geology based on analysis of drilling cores and borehole data obtained in the Aizu basin, Northeast Japan (75853)
Takeshi Ishihara, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan
 
Terminal fans and the Ganga plain tectonism of the Indo-Gangetic foreland basin, India (64415)
Rudra Mohan Pradhan1,2, Pitambar Pati2 and Tapas Kumar Biswal3, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Earth Sciences, Roorkee, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Earth Sciences, Mumbai, India
 
Detection of landscape transience using cosmogenic nuclides and topography (66094)
Simon M Mudd, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
Combining FastScape χ Values and 10Be Erosion Rates to Evaluate Topographic Equilibrium in Evolving Landscapes: Examples from Namibia and the Central Himalaya (68235)
Cassandra Fenton, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Alexandru Codilean, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, Jean Braun, University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenboble, France and Simon Merrall, Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany
 
Geomorphic Indices in the Assessment of Tectonic Activity in Forearc of the Active Mexican Subduction Zone (80655)
Krzysztof Gaidzik1,2 and M. Teresa Ramirez-Herrera1, (1)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Instituto de Geografía, D.F., Mexico, (2)Uniwersytet Śląski, Katedra Geologii Podstawowej, Sosnowiec, Poland
 
The Relationship between Drainage Density, Erosion Rate, and Hilltop Curvature: Implications for Sediment Transport Processes (69159)
Fiona Jane Clubb1, Simon M Mudd2, Mikael Attal3, David T Milodowski3 and Stuart W D Grieve3, (1)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
 
Using a paleo perspective to decipher climate controls on erosion and landscape evolution (77140)
Joshua J Roering1, Jill A Marshall2, Darryl E Granger3, Matthew Fox2 and Daniel G Gavin4, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Landscape evolution of Peninsular India in response to Cenozoic epeirogeny (78957)
Mark Hoggard, Fred D Richards and Nicky White, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences (Bullard Laboratories), Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
Age of Carving the Westernmost Grand Canyon: Conflicts and Potential Resolutions that Reconcile Geologic and Thermochronologic Data (86743)
Carmen Winn1, Karl E Karlstrom1, Shari Kelley2, David L Shuster3 and Matthew Fox4, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
The Northern Boundary of the Michoacan Block: As Inferred From Aeromagnetic Data (86137)
Jose Rosas-Elguera1, Héctor Lopez Loera2, Emilia Fregoso3, Roberto Maciel4, Laura Peña4 and Miguel Angel Alatorre-Zamora5, (1)Universidad de Guadalajara, CUVALLES, Ameca, Mexico, (2)Instituto Potosino de Investigación Cientifica, Ciencias de la Tierra, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, (3)Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCEI, Guadalajara, Mexico, (4)Universidad de Guadalajara, CUCBA, Guadalajara, Mexico, (5)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
 
Equilibrium and Disequilibrium of River Basins: Effects on Stream Captures in Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil (82509)
Lucia MARIA DA Silva, UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
 
Chronology and stratigraphy for the MIS 2 damming of glacial Lake Wisconsin, USA (67142)
Eric C. Carson, John W. Attig and J. Elmo Rawling III, WI Geol. & Nat. Hist. Survey, Madison, WI, United States
 
Late Pleistocene glacial chronology and paleoclimate of Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range, Utah. (76708)
Brendon Quirk1, Jeffrey R Moore1, Benjamin J C Laabs2, Marc W Caffee3 and Mitchell Aaron Plummer4, (1)University of Utah, Geology & Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, United States, (3)Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States
 
The Significance of High, Isolated, Low-relief Surfaces in Glaciated Mountain Ranges (78386)
Simon H Brocklehurst, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13, United Kingdom
 
Reconstructing Glaciers on Mars (79327)
Stephen Brough, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23, United Kingdom, Alun Hubbard II, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Bryn P Hubbard, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
 
Spatial Analysis of Cryoplanation Landforms in Beringian Uplands, Alaska, USA (79929)
Kelsey E Nyland and Frederick E Nelson, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Formation of Authigenic Sulfates in Cold Dry Glaciers: Terrestrial and Planetary Implications of Sublimites (61742)
Marion Massé1, Benjamin Rondeau1, Patrick Ginot2, Bernard Schmitt3, Olivier Bourgeois1,4 and Giuseppe Mitri1,5, (1)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (2)OSUG/IRD, LGGE, Grenoble, France, (3)UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Grenoble, France, (4)Universite de Nantes - CNRS, Nantes, France, (5)University of Nantes, Nantes, France
 
On the Origin of the Crestone Crater: Low-Latitude Periglacial Features in San Luis Valley, Colorado (63861)
Emily Schwans, Tyler McGrew Meng and Kristen Prudhomme, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States