Logging, erosion, and sediment yield in western China
Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
We generally know that logging, and clear-cutting in particular, can cause enormous amounts of erosion due to loss of soil cohesion. So, one would predict that since most of the forests in western China were ...

Beneath the surface of coastal lowlands: archives of mid- to late-Holocene subduction zone earthquakes
Harvey Kelsey, Humboldt State University
Introduction Coastal lowland marshes (Figure 1) are more than just muddy shorelines where your feet get stuck as you try to walk around. Geologically, coastal marshes are low-energy settings where fine-grained ...

Rivers crossing growing folds
Douglas Burbank, University of California-Santa Barbara
The interactions of fluvial systems with active deforming landscapes has provided fertile ground for exploration of the adjustments that rivers make when they are perturbed by deformation. Two ingredients are ...

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 ...

The Many Expressions of a New England Formation
Lindley Hanson, Salem State University
Lindley Hanson Salem State College Location Continent: North America Country: United States of America Region: New England Province, with a local focus on Central Maine UTM coordinates and datum: none Setting ...

Exploring the roles of discharge and bedload composition in strath terrace formation through a naturally occurring experiment in the California Coast Ranges
Antonio Garcia, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Introduction Pancho Rico Creek is a tributary of the Salinas River that flows across an area of modestly high topography known as the Gabilan Mesa. The Gabilan Mesa is in the central Coast Ranges of California, ...

Landscape response in the California Coast Ranges to the stormy conditions of the Pleistocene to Holocene climatic transition
Antonio Garcia, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Introduction: temporal scales, spatial scales, climate, and tectonics A long-standing problem in geomorphology is identifying the relative roles of climate and tectonism on landscape evolution. Here we examine the ...