College of Forestry

Watershed Processes Group

GEOMORPHOLOGY ROUND TABLE

GRT ARCHIVE

Geomorphology Round Table Seminar Series

Geomorphology Brown Bag - Spring 2015
Tuesday 12 - 1 pm in Wilkinson 203
Geomorphology of MARS. Oh yes, we are going there.


Choose your own Martian Adventure: Compiling papers to choose from for spring quarter. Send suggestions to sarah.

Some topics: Groundwater sapping as a channel forming process, origin of river networks, lava flows, inverted topography, cyclic floods/cratering, Ice-caps, tiny elongated holes in Gale Crater

Kite et al., 2013. Growth and form of the mound in Gale Crate, Mars: Slope wind enhanced erosion and transport. Geology 41(6) 543-546.

Palucis et al., 2014. The origin and evolution of the Peace Vallis fan system that drains to the Curiosity landing area, Gale Crater, Mars. JGR 119(4):705-728

Jackson, M.P.A., Adams, J.B., Dooley, T.P., Gillespie, A.R., Montgomery, D. R. Modeling the collapse of Hebes Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars, GSA Bulletin, 10.1130/B30307.1;Data Repository item 2011021.

Montgomery, D. R., Som, S. M., Jackson, M., Schreiber, B. C., Gillespie, A., and Adams, J., Thin-skinned, continental-scale salt tectonics on Mars and the origin of Valles Marineris and associated outflow channels, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 117-133, 2009.

Robert A. Craddock and Alan D. Howard, 2002. The case for rainfall on a warm, wet early Mars  JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 107, Issue E11, Pages: 21-1–21-36, DOI: 10.1029/2001JE001505

Yo Matsubara, Alan D. Howard and Sarah A. Drummond, 2011. Hydrology of early Mars: Lake basins JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 116, Issue E4, DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003739

Alan D. Howard, Jeffrey M. Moore and Rossman P. Irwin III, 2005.  An intense terminal epoch of widespread fluvial activity on early Mars: 1. Valley network incision and associated deposits JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 110, Issue E12, DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002459

Rossman P. Irwin III, Alan D. Howard, Robert A. Craddock and Jeffrey M. Moore, 2005. An intense terminal epoch of widespread fluvial activity on early Mars: 2. Increased runoff and paleolake development JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 110, Issue E12, DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002460

Isaac B. Smith, John W. Holt, Aymeric Spiga, Alan D. Howard and Gary Parker, 2013. The spiral troughs of Mars as cyclic steps JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 118, Issue 9, Pages: 1835–1857, DOI: 10.1002/jgre.20142

Edwin S. Kite, Scot Rafkin, Timothy I. Michaels, William E. Dietrich and Michael Manga, 2011. Chaos terrain, storms, and past climate on Mars JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 116, Issue E10, DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003792

Presenter: Laura Hempel

Overview of Geology and Geomorphology of Mars

Presenter: John Trimble

Large Alluvial Fans on Mars

Attachments:
2005_Moore&Howard-JGR__Planets.pdf
Presenter: Michelle Neely

An overview of aeolian features and processes on Mars: Montgomery, David R., Bandfield, Joshua L., and Becker, Scott K., Periodic bedrock ridges on Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, 9 March 2012 & Kerber and Head, 2011. A progression of induration in Medusae Fossae Formation transverse aeolian ridges: evidence for ancient aeolian bedforms and extensive reworking, ESPL 37 422-433.

Attachments:
2012_Montgomeryetal.pdf , Attachments:
2011_KerberHead_TARs.pdf
Presenter: Jack Zunka

Perkins, J.P., Finnegan, Noah J. and de Silva, S.L 2015. Amplification of bedrock canyon incision by wind. Nature Geoscience DOI:10.1038/NGEO02381.

Attachments:
2015_Perkinsetal.pdf
Presenter: Lalo Guerrero

Nepal Earthquake of 4/25/15:

IRIS coverage http://www.iris.edu/hq/retm/3363 

Earth Observatory of Singapore:  http://www.earthobservatory.sg/news/april-25-2015-nepal-earthquake#.VT5I_KaKUxY

Lave, J., Yule, D., Sapkota, S., Basant, K., Madden, C., Attal, M., and Pandey, R., 2005, Evidence for a Great Medieval Earthquake (~1100 A.D.) in the Central Himalayas, Nepal: Science, v. 307, no. 5713, p. 1302–1305, doi: 10.1126/science.1104804.

Sapkota, S.N., Bollinger, L., Klinger, Y., Tapponnier, P., Gaudemer, Y., and Tiwari, D., 2012, Primary surface ruptures of the great Himalayan earthquakes in 1934 and 1255: Nature Geoscience,, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1669. Additional PDF is the News and Views about the work by Sapkota et al 2012.

Attachments:
Science 2005 Lave.pdf , Attachments:
Nature Geoscience 2012 Sapkota.pdf , Attachments:
sapkota_2013_rockwell_N&V.pdf
Presenter: Caroline Nash

Yo Matsubara, Alan D. Howard and J. Parker Gochenour, 2013. Hydrology of early Mars: Valley network incision JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 118, Issue 6, Pages: 1365–1387, DOI: 10.1002/jgre.20081

Attachments:
Matsubaraetal_2013_JGR.pdf
Presenter: Laura Hempel

Palucis et al., 2014. The origin and evolution of the Peace Vallis fan system that drains to the Curiosity landing area, Gale Crater, Mars. JGR 119(4):705-728.

For a summary: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/1607.pdf

Attachments:
2014_Palucisetal_JGR.pdf
Presenter: Laurel Stratton

Fluvial/deltaic deposits NE of Holden Crater: Malin & Edgett 2003 Evidence for persistent flow and aqueous sedimentation on early Mars. Science Vol 302: 1931-1934; Moore et al., 2003. Martian layered fluvial deposits: Implications for Noachian climate scenarios, GRL 30(24): 2292 Jerolmack et al., 2004. A minimum time for the formation of Holden Northeast fan, Mars, GRL Vol 31. L21701, doi:10.1029/2004GL021326

Attachments:
malin_edgett_2003_martian_delta.pdf , Attachments:
moore_etal_2003_martian_delta.pdf , Attachments:
jerolmack_etal_2004_martian_delta.pdf
Presenter: Michelle Neely

Mars ice - exisiting features and geomorphological markers of past ice.

Head et al., 2005. Tropical to mid-latitude snow and ice accumulation, flow and glaciation on Mars. Nature 434:346-351.

Attachments:
2005_HeadEtAl.pdf
Presenter: Lalo Guerrero

Rossman P. Irwin III, Robert A. Craddock, Alan D. Howard and Holly L. Flemming, 2011. Topographic influences on development of Martian valley networks JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS Volume 116, Issue E2, DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003620

Attachments:
Irwinetal_2011_JGR.pdf