Coastal Geomorphology and Policy Applications along Southern Monterey Bay, California
Douglas Smith, California State University-Monterey Bay
Introduction Global sea level stood between 100 m and 130 m lower than today's sea level 18,000 years ago at the peak of the latest ice age. Since that time, melting ice and thermally expanding oceans have ...

Establishing cave exposure using evidence from river deposits: a case study from Liang Bua, Indonesia
Kira Westaway
Liang Bua, in western Flores, Indonesia (Figure 1) is a large limestone chamber with a wide entrance and a cathedral-like atmosphere. It's name, meaning 'cool cave' explains its attraction as an ...

Understanding the pattern of glaciations of Shaluli Shan in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau by using geomorphological mapping
Ping Fu
Geomorphological mapping at a large scale is a powerful tool in understanding the paleoglaciology of northern hemispheric ice sheets, and has recently been used in reconstructing the paleoglaciation of the ...

High resolution aerial imagery from an unmanned helicopter for mapping fluvial substrate size in Chile
Amy Woodget
OverviewThis research presents some initial outputs of an on-going study which aims to map fluvial substrate size distributions on the San Pedro River in Chile using very high resolution remote sensing imagery, ...

Landscape or Land Use? Documenting Influences on Fine Sediment Yield in a Logged New England Watershed
Alan Kasprak, Utah State University-Uintah Basin
The type and intensity of land use in a watershed can considerably impact the form of channels within the basin. Of particular note with regard to land use are (A) the shifts in the amount of water reaching ...

Quantification of sediment storage and flux in an alpine basin (Reintal, Bavarian Alps, Germany)
Joachim Goetz; Martin Geilhausen
This vignette deals with the quantification of sediment storage and sediment input and exemplifies how sediment is transferred through an alpine catchment system (Reintal, Bavarian Alps). The Reintal valley is ...

Biological effects of glaciation on an Alaskan white spruce forest
Michael Loso, Alaska Pacific University
Michael G Loso Alaska Pacific University Location Continent: North America Country: United States of America State/Province: Alaska City/Town: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park UTM coordinates and datum: WGS-84 ...

Why is there a sandwave and why is it not there all the time?
Ana Vila Concejo
It is widely known that beaches erode because of the effect of storms. However, this is not always the case; this vignette presents an area that seems to grow the most when affected by severe storms. For this ...

Where did the river mouth go?
Ana Vila Concejo
If you lived on Winda Woppa peninsula, in a house with a boat shed by the river bank, and only used your boat every few years, it is likely that you would have to travel further and further every time you wanted to ...

Legacy of Hydraulic Gold Mining in California - A New Look at a Classic Problem in Geomorphology
Michael Singer, University of St Andrews
[link mailto: michael.singer@st-andrews.ac.uk 'Michael Singer'] Location Continent: North America Country: USA State: California UTM coordinates and datum: none Setting Climate Setting: Semi-Arid ...