EP53C:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes General Contributions

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Session ID#: 12379

Session Description:
We welcome contributions to this general poster session related to physical, chemical and/or biological processes that shape the surface of Earth and other planetary bodies. This session provides the opportunity for contributions that fall within the broad spectrum of Earth and Planetary Surface Processes including, but not limited to, fluvial, hillslope, tectonic, glacial, coastal, marine, and aeolian process geomorphology.
Primary Convener:  J. Toby Minear, University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  J. Toby Minear, University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Leonard S Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Chairs:  J. Toby Minear, University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Leonard S Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States and Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  J. Toby Minear, University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1826 Geomorphology: hillslope [HYDROLOGY]
1886 Weathering [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Classification of Effective Soil Depth by Using Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis (156102)
Chien-Hui Chang, Hsun-Chuan Chan and Bo-An Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
A framework for global terrain classification using 250-m DEMs to predict geohazards (123249)
Junko Iwahashi, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Ibaraki, Japan, Masashi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Alan Yong, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
A Study on the Land Surface Emissivity (LSE) Distribution of Mid-wavelength Infrared (MWIR) over the Korean Peninsula. (154748)
Jongsun Sun, Wook Park and Joong-Sun Won, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Hydrogeomorphological characterization of river valleys: A cross-CZO analysis (195124)
Angela Lynn Magnuson1, Qina Yang1 and Praveen Kumar2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
A Comprehensive Lunar Topography Model Using Chang’E-1, SELENE and LRO Laser Altimetry Data (158011)
Chang Shengqi, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Morphometric Characterization of the Modification Sequence of Simple Impact Craters on the Moon and Mars. (188910)
Wesley Andres Watters, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States and Caleb Fassett, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Evaluation of Erosion Rates on a Global Scale (137087)
Hagar Hecht, University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science, Kashiwa, Japan and Takashi Oguchi, The University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science, Kashiwa, Japan
The elevational gradient inside a mountain zonal belt, patterns and reasons (199450)
Chao Zhao, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China and Baiping Zhang, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
Volcanic Crater Lakes: Relaying Signals to Satellites for Decades (129132)
Sam Murphy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Robert Wright, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States
The analysis of remote sensing data to delineate landsystem tracts in proglacial valleys in the Río Santa Basin, Cordillera Blanca, Perú (164375)
Rodrigo Alberto Narro Perez, McMaster University, School of Earth, Environment & Society, Hamilton, Canada, Carolyn Eyles, McMaster University, School of Earth, Environment & Society, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Glacial Sedimentology Lab
An Assessment of the Relationship Between Rock Properties and the Rate of Bare-bedrock Erosion on Ridgeline Outcrops of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, USA (178538)
Jacqueline Huettenmoser, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Gregory S Hancock, College William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States and Jennifer L Whitten, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, United States
Response of High Latitude Coralline Algae to pCO2 and Thermal Stress (194691)
Kay Garlick-Ott1, Branwen Williams2, Phoebe Tsz-Wai Chan3, Isaac Thomas Westfield4, Doug Rasher5, Justin B Ries6, Walter Adey7 and Jochen Halfar3, (1)Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States, (2)Claremont Colleges, W. M. Keck Science Department, Claremont, CA, United States, (3)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Northeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Nahant, MA, United States, (5)University of Maine, Darling Marine Center, Orono, ME, United States, (6)Northeastern University, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Boston, MA, United States, (7)Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Botany, Washington, DC, United States
Climate and Regolith Erosion Rates Vary in Concert in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA, USA for 85 ka (135614)
Risa D Madoff and Jaakko Putkonen, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Cryoplanation Terraces: A Characteristic Upland Periglacial Landscape (153400)
Kelsey E Nyland, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Frederick E Nelson, Northern Michigan University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Marquette, United States and Clayton Queen, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States
Chronostratigraphy of Upper Pleistocene to Early Holocene Western Cordilleran Soils: The Almira, Bishop and Badger Mountain Geosols. (144160)
Brett R Lenz1, Herman Gentry2, Andrew Murphy3, Aaron Kuntz3, Steve Jensvold4 and Garreck H. Lenz5, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)Gentry Consulting, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (3)PUD No. 2 of Grant County, Washington, Ephrata, WA, United States, (4)Geo Services, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Biology, Seattle, WA, United States
Prediction of Soil Erosion Rates in Japan where Heavily Forested Landscape with Unstable Terrain (153532)
Kazuki Nanko1, Michio Oguro2, Satoru Miura2 and Takashi Masaki2, (1)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
CRN Dating and Numerical Glacier Modeling to Investigate Climate During the Last Glacial Maximum, and the Subsequent Deglaciation, Sawatch Range, Colorado (179619)
Charlie Russell and Eric Michael Leonard, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Mapping process and age of Quaternary deposits on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California (120387)
Kevin M Schmidt, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Minerals, Energy, & Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Scott Alan Minor, USGS, Denver, CO, United States and David Bedford, U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA, United States
Glacial Buzzcutting and Scarp Encroachment Limit the Height of Tropical Mountains (149368)
Maxwell Cunningham, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States, Colin Peter Stark, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Michael R Kaplan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Joerg M Schaefer, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; Columbia University - Lamont, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States and Gisela Winckler, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States; Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Past Glaciation in the Sierra Aconquija, NW Argentina (156797)
Mitch Keith D'Arcy1, Juergen Mey1 and Taylor F Schildgen2, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Daily variability of monsoon precipitation in the Himalayan orogen and its relevance to landscape evolution (172115)
Jean Braun1,2, Eric Deal2 and Anne-Catherine Favre Pugin3, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Université Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France, (3)Université Grenoble Alpes, LTHE, GINP/ENSE3, Grenoble, France
Earthquake-driven erosion rates under hyper-arid condition in the Atacama Desert, Chile (174683)
Carolin Rabethge, Christof Sager and Alessandro Airo, Free University of Berlin, Department of Earth Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Coupled analysis of hillslope and channel metrics for erosion rates in a tectonically active landscape (187003)
Martin D Hurst, University of Glasgow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Stuart W D Grieve, University College London, London, United Kingdom and Simon M Mudd, University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Drainage reorganization and tectonic deformation in the Chaschuil and Fiambalá basins of NW Argentina (180329)
Erin G Seagren, Simon Fraser University, School of Environmental Science, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Lindsay M Schoenbohm, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Channel Steepness and Longitudinal Profile Evaluation Along the Northern California Coast (197151)
Adam Caspian Nebraska Fisher, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Patrick Belmont, Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States and Lee H MacDonald, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
Rock Erodibility as a Dynamic Variable Driven by the Interplay between Erosion and Weathering in Bedrock Channels: Examples from Great Falls, Virginia, USA (198225)
Gregory S Hancock, College William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Jacqueline Huettenmoser, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, Charles Shobe, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, United States and Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States
Geomorphometric Delineation of Flood-Prone Areas from Slope and Channel Relief Thresholds (138038)
Fiona Jane Clubb1, Simon M Mudd2, David T Milodowski2 and Declan Valters3, (1)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (3)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Growth Rates and Stability of Tree Covered Islands on the Anabranching Vaal River, Free State South Africa, Established Using Quartz Optically Stimulated Luminescence (150627)
Amanda Keen-Zebert, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Stephen Tooth, Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
The structural fabric and deformation history of a mountain logjam: cameras, creep, and catastrophe (160106)
Nakul Deshpande, Idaho State University, Geosciences, Pocatello, ID, United States and Benjamin T Crosby, Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Pocatello, United States
The signature of bankfull hydraulic conditions reflected by properties of the channel bank: a case study from the Selenga River delta, Lake Baikal, Russia (138682)
Tian Yang Dong1, Jeffrey A Nittrouer2, Matthew John Czapiga3, Hongbo Ma4, Brandon J McElroy5, Elena Il'icheva6, Maksim Pavlov6 and Gary Parker7, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Texas Tech University, Department of Geosciences, Lubbock, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, (4)Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (6)V.B Sochava Institute of Geography Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Science, Laboratory of Hydrology and Climatology, Irkutsk, Russia, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
Modifying Bagnold’s Sediment Transport Equation for Use in Watershed-Scale Channel Incision Models (148860)
Roderick W Lammers and Brian P Bledsoe, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Geomorphic responses of gravel bed rivers to fine sediment releases during annual reservoir drawdowns: Spatial patterns and magnitude of aggradation along Fall Creek and Middle Fork Willamette River, Oregon (193834)
Mackenzie K Keith1, Rose Wallick1, Gregory Taylor2, Joseph Mangano1, James White1 and Liam Schenk1, (1)USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States, (2)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland, OR, United States
Beyond the threshold for motion: river channel geometry and grain size reflect sediment supply (178973)
Allison M Pfeiffer, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Noah J Finnegan, UC Santa Cruz, EPS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Jane K. Willenbring, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Topography Battles Surface Texture: An Experimental Study of Pool-riffle Formation (192711)
Shawn M Chartrand, Marwan A Hassan and Mark Jellinek, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Channel Bed Adjustment Along Pool-Riffle Sequences in Gravel Bed Streams (167515)
Emma Buckrell, University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Marwan A Hassan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
An Element of Cohesion in Alluvial Fan Experiments (190951)
Nilay Iscen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, Brandon J Dillon, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Kyle Strom, Virginia Tech, Civil Engineering, Blacksburg, United States and David C J D Hoyal, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX, United States
Evaluating 2D models for fluvial bedform morphodynamics using flume experiments with profiling ADVs over a mobile sand bed (167231)
Prof. Robert Mahon, PhD, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, United States, Suleyman Naqshband, Wageningen University, Environmental Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands and Brandon J McElroy, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
Low-Angle Dunes in Big Rivers: Morphology, Occurrence and Speculations on Their Origin (196377)
Julia Cisneros, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Geology, Urbana, IL, United States and Jim Best, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Saturation Length of Erodible Sediment Beds Subject to Shear Flow (158550)
Dylan Marcus Casler1, Benjamin P Kahn1, David Jon Furbish2 and Mark Walter Schmeeckle3, (1)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Meandering and material accumulation in the alcove on present day gully evolution (149542)
Kelly Pasquon1, Julien Gargani1, Marion Masse2, Mathieu Vincendon3, Susan J Conway4 and Antoine Séjourné1, (1)Laboratoire GEOPS GEOsciences Paris-Sud, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, (2)Laboratoire de Planetologie, Univ. Nantes, Nantes, France, (3)IAS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France, (4)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes, France
Detecting Stratigraphic Disturbance Using Normalized Luminescence Signals from a Portable Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Reader: Improvements to Site Characterization in Holocene Eolian Deposits on the Canadian Great Plains (171220)
Ken Munyikwa1, Krista Gilliland2 and Terry Gibson2, (1)Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB, Canada, (2)Western Heritage, St Albert, AB, Canada
Investigation of Sediment Pathways and Concealed Sedimentological Features in Hidden River Cave, Kentucky (182788)
Samantha Feist1, John C. Maclachlan1, Eduard Gordon Reinhardt1, Chelsi A. McNeill-Jewer1 and Carolyn Eyles2, (1)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, School of Earth, Environment & Society, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Visible Near-Infrared (VNIR) and Thermal Spectral Mapping of Salt Diapirs on Axel Heiberg Island, NU, Canada (120289)
Maria Shaposhnikova1, Livio L Tornabene1, Michael Zanetti2, Elise Michelle Harrington3, Catherine Neish4 and Gordon R Osinski5, (1)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (2)University of Western Ontario, St Louis, MO, United States, (3)University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, (4)University of Western Ontario, Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada, (5)University of Western Ontario, Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada
Sequence stratigraphy of upper Paleogene to Neogene carbonates exposed from Guánica bay to Guayanilla, Southern Puerto Rico. (185631)
Victor Eduardo Flores Hots and Hernán Santos, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States
Calcite dissolution kinetics at the interface between a calcite-rich simulated sediment and natural seawater. (149511)
Olivier Sulpis, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France, Claire Lix, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Alfonso Mucci, McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and Bernard P Boudreau, Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada
13C Tracer Insights into Biogenic Calcite Dissolution Kinetics (190495)
Adam Subhas, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, Jess F Adkins, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, William Berelson, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Nick Rollins, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Jonathan Erez, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel
Refugia for Carbonate Producing Organisms in High Carbon Dioxide Environmental Conditions (164144)
Christian Gfatter, University of South Florida Tampa, College of Marine Science, Tampa, FL, United States, Sean Beckwith, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Pamela Hallock Muller, University of South Florida Tampa, College of Marine Science, Tampa, United States and Kyle Amergian, Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States

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