Luminescence dating used to reconstruct fault slip rates in the Mojave Desert, California
Belinda Roder, University of California-Los Angeles
The Mojave Desert, California, is crossed by a number of major active fault systems that have played an important role in this region's landscape development and represent a significant seismic hazard to ...

Fire geomorphology: Interactions among climate, fire, and vegetation
Kerry Riley
In steep forested landscapes, fire plays a crucial role in the timing and magnitude of erosion. Fire is a natural disturbance to vegetation and surface erosion and is a primary driver of ecosystem change across the ...

Natural Storm Variability in New England
Adam Parris
Why storms? Climate is the long-term average of variables in the Earth's atmosphere, such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. For millions of years, climatic events, such as rainstorms, have shaped the ...

Comparative planetology: the geomorphology of volatile cycling and catastrophic flooding
Devon Burr, Northern Arizona University
INTRODUCTION: Three planetary bodies in our Solar System show landforms that provide evidence of liquid flowing over the surface, either at present or in the past. The surface flow of liquid is evidence for a ...

Holocene landscape evolution of alpine areas in the southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Brad Johnson, Appalachian State University
Alpine landscapes that were glaciated during the Last Glacial Maximum are filled with landforms which are often confusing and difficult to understand. Yet, many researchers are drawn to researching problems in ...

Surficial carbonate and land surfaces of the Pamir Plateau, Tajikistan
Scott Hynek, University of Utah
The Pamir plateau is a prominent physiographic feature in Central Asia (Figure 1). The geomorphology of the plateau interior is a result of its geologic setting and its climate. The Pamir plateau is surrounded by ...

How to reconstruct past debris flows using tree rings
Michelle Bollschweiler
1. What is a debris flow and what are the associated problems? Debris flows are a type of mass movement involving rapid transport of water and saturated material (sand, mud, blocks, organic matter, ...) down steep, ...

Glacier Fluctuations Since the Last Glacial Maximum in Southwest Alaska
Jonathan Harvey
Glacier fluctuations since the last glacial maximum in southwest Alaska Introduction During the last glacial maximum (LGM), alpine glaciers in the western cordillera expanded, coalesced, and flowed onto ...

Denudation rate chronologies and the topographic development of the San Bernardino Mountains, California
William Phillips, University of Idaho
How does the topography of mountains develop? What roles do crustal processes such as faulting and surface processes such as erosion play? These questions have long been a focus of geomorphic research. In the past ...

Climate change in the dead heart of Australia
Joshua Larsen
Despite the absence of large-scale glaciation, the Australian continent has experienced substantial environmental change throughout the Quaternary period. This is especially pronounced in central Australia, where ...