T71 Landscape Evolution and Land Use Practices in Western Colorado

Monday, 29 October 2007
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  NEOTECTONIC INFLUENCES ON THE LONGITUDINAL PROFILE OF THE COLORADO RIVER SYSTEM IN GRAND CANYON AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Karl E. Karlstrom, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Eric Kirby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Shari Kelley, Los Alamos, NM and Andres Aslan, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO and M. Magdalena Sandoval-Donahue, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Ryan Crow, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  130289 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  GRAND MESA: AN IMPORTANT CONTROL POINT FOR ESTABLISHING THE LATE CENOZOIC HISTORY OF WESTERN COLORADO
  Rex D. Cole, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO
  131459 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  ORIGIN OF THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER SYSTEM: THE VIEW FROM WESTERN COLORADO
  Andres Aslan, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO and Robert M. Kirkham, GeoLogical Solutions, Alamosa, CO
  128340 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  FLASH FLOODING HISTORY IN THE COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT
  Gigi A. Richard, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO
  130626 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  EVOLUTION OF UPLAND GRAVEL DEPOSITS ADJACENT TO THE UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER VALLEY NEAR MONTROSE, COLORADO
  David C. Noe, Denver, CO and Paul R. Hanson, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
  127978 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN COLORADO: A TALE OF TWO ARROYOS
  Lawrence S. Jones, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
  128431 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  LARAMIDE-AGE LEFT-LATERAL STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION ALONG THE NORTHERN UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU, WESTERN COLORADO
  Richard Livaccari, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO
  128758 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  MANCOS SHALE LANDSCAPES: SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT OF BLACK SHALE TERRAINS - - A MULTI-AGENCY PROJECT
  Richard I. Grauch, USGS, Denver, CO and Jayne Belnap, United States Geological Survey, Moab, UT and Michele L. Tuttle, USGS, Denver, CO and Bridget Ball, USGS, Denver, CO and John G. Elliott, USGS, Denver, CO and John J. Kosovich, USGS, Denver, CO and Geneva W. Chong, USGS, Jackson, WY and Juli Fahy, USBR, Denver, CO and Karen Tucker, Bureau of Land Management, Montrose, CO and Dennis Murphy, Bureau of Land Management, Montrose, CO
  131646 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOUTSENHIZER DRAINAGE BASIN AND ASSOCIATED COLLAPSIBLE SOILS, MONTROSE AND DELTA COUNTIES, WESTERN COLORADO
  Matthew L. Morgan, Colorado Geological Survey, Golden, CO and Jonathan L. White, Colorado Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  128144 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  LANDSLIDES IN THE UNCOMPAHGRE VALLEY OF WESTERN COLORADO AND IMPACTS TO MIXED AGRICULTURAL AND RESIDENTIAL LAND USAGE
  Jonathan L. White, Colorado Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Matthew L. Morgan, Colorado Geological Survey, Golden, CO
  128672 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING CHALLENGES IN SOUTHWEST COLORADO AND WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD CONSIDERING CLIMATE CHANGE
  Laurie Brandt Hauptmann, Buckhorn Geotech, Inc, Montrose, CO
  129338 (Technical Sessions)