T45 Carving the Western Landscape: The Evolution of the Colorado Drainage from Source to Sink

Sunday, 16 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  A HEARTBREAKING STREAM OF STAGGERING COMPLEXITY: WHAT THE PIONEER GEOLOGISTS KNEW AND DIDN'T KNOW; WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T*
  James L. Powell, Buellton, CA
  93477 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  A SUMMARY OF IDEAS ON THE TIMING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ROCK AND SURFACE UPLIFT ACROSS THE COLORADO PLATEAU
  Mousumi Roy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  94767 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  THERMOCHRONOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS ON TERTIARY EROSIONAL EXHUMATION AND INCISION OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU – A PROGRESS REPORT
  Daniel F. Stockli, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  97764 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  DOES THE MUDDY CREEK FORMATION SUPPORT AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR THE EVOLUTION OF A PRE-COLORADO RIVER CANYON?
  Richard A. Young, State University of NY at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY
  97321 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  THE LAST-STANDING HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE PATH AND INTEGRATION OF THE LATE MIOCENE COLORADO RIVER OFF THE COLORADO PLATEAU
  Joel Pederson, utah state univeristy, logan, UT
  95550 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  TERMINAL MIOCENE ARRIVAL OF COLORADO RIVER SAND IN THE SALTON TROUGH, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR INITIATION OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER DRAINAGE
  Rebecca Dorsey, Eugene, OR and Amy Fluette, Bellingham, WA and Kristin McDougall, Flagstaff, AZ and Bernard A. Housen, Bellingham, WA and Susanne U. Janecke, Logan, UT
  91054 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  SOME EVIDENCE FOR A LACUSTRINE ORIGIN FOR THE LOWER PLIOCENE BOUSE FORMATION, LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY, SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A
  Jon E. Spencer, Arizona Geol Survey, Tucson, AZ and Philip A. Pearthree, Arizona Geol Survey, Tucson, AZ and P. Jonathan Patchett, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and P. Kyle House, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV
  92676 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  TEPHROCHRONOLOGIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE INCEPTION AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER SUPPORT LACUSTRINE OVERFLOW AS THE PRINCIPAL FORMATIVE MECHANISM
  P. Kyle House, University of Nevada, Reno, NV and Philip Pearthree, Arizona Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ and Michael Perkins, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  94092 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  EPISODIC INCISION OF COLORADO RIVER IN GLEN CANYON, UTAH
  Cristofer D. Garvin, N/A, Santa Monica, CA and Thomas C. Hanks, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, N/A and Robert C. Finkel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore and Arjun M. Heimsath, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N/A
  91991 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  RATES OF FLUVIAL INCISION AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN THE FREMONT RIVER BASIN, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO PLATEAU
  David W. Marchetti, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and John C. Dohrenwend, Southwest Satellite Imaging, Teasdale, UT and Thure E. Cerling, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  90245 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE MEGALANDSLIDES IN THE COLORADO RIVER CORRIDOR, ARIZONA
  Conor Watkins, University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO and J. David Rogers, University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO
  91849 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  LUMINESCENCE GEOCHRONOLOGY AND CORRELATIONS OF TERRACE DEPOSITS OF COLORADO RIVER TRIBUTARIES WITHIN THE GRAND CANYON AND GRAND WASH TROUGH, NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA
  Tammy M. Rittenour, Utah State University, Logan, UT and Warren Sharp, Berkeley, CA and Joel Pederson, utah state univeristy, logan, UT and Karl Karlstrom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  96391 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  ALLUVIAL FAN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE ALONG THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER
  Paul R. Hanson, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
  96615 (Technical Sessions)