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GSA2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T50. Geomicrobiology and Hydrology of Lava Tube Caves floodplain features, and the distribution of vegetation, organic GSA TODAY | www.geosociety.org/gsatoday
matter, and sediment.
Cosponsors: GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division; GSA
Hydrogeology Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, T54. Geomorphology and Hydrology of Wildland Fires
and Volcanology Division
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Disciplines: Geomicrobiology, Hydrogeology, Geochemistry Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division;
GSA Geology and Society Division
Advocates: Jennifer G. Blank; Saugata Datta; Richard J. Leveille
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Environmental Geoscience,
We seek contributions about the mineralogy, hydrogeology, Quaternary Geology
and microbiology of lava tube caves, especially studies of micro-
bial diversity, biomarkers, and assessment of energy available to Advocates: Daniel Cadol; Francis K. Rengers; Luke McGuire;
support life there and in lava tube caves on other planets. Joel B. Sankey
GEOMORPHOLOGY This session seeks to bring together researchers studying the
processes by which wildland fires affect the timing and magnitude
T51. CRevolution 2.5: Origin and Evolution of the Colorado of water, sediment, and pyrogenic debris fluxes and the resulting
River System and Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the impacts on downstream communities.
Colorado Plateau–Rocky Mountain Region
T55. Heterogeneity in Geomorphic Systems: Driving Forces and
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Landscape Response
Geophysics/Geodynamics
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Advocates: Ryan S. Crow; L. Sue Beard; Rebecca Dorsey; Andres Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for
Aslan; Eric Kirby; Brandon Schmandt; Lijun Liu; Richard A. Sedimentary Geology)
Young; P. Kyle House; David L. Shuster; Karl Karlstrom
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology, Sediments,
Papers are sought that present recent advances on the origin Clastic
and evolution of the Colorado River system, including the overall
Cenozoic tectonic and geomorphic evolution of the western U.S. Advocates: Charles M. Shobe; Rachel C. Glade
orogenic plateau and dynamic topography in general.
This session explores landscape evolution in the face of spatially
T52. Deep Weathering, Ancient Landscapes, and Regolith- and temporally variable forcings (e.g., tectonics, climate) and
Dominated Terrains heterogeneous rock and sediment properties (e.g., lithology, grain
size). We welcome field, modeling, and experimental approaches.
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division;
GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest Group T56. Insights into the Regional Geology of Michigan: From
Glaciers to Mid-Continental Rifting
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Geochemistry, Economic Geology
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, Economic Geology
Advocate: Ignacio Gonzalez-Alvarez
Advocates: Erik B. Larson; Jonathan B. Sumrall
Regolith-dominated terrains are extensively preserved across
many continental regions, especially in the tropics and This session welcomes topics related to the great variety of
sub-tropics. The complex weathered profiles in these regions, regional geology in Michigan, including geomorphology, glacial
which reach depths of 30 m to more than 100 m, are the products history, hydrology, karst, mid-continental rifting, mining
of multiple weathering events occurring over geologically geology, paleontology, petroleum geology, sedimentology, soils,
long timescales. and stratigraphy.
T53. Floodplain Hydrogeomorphology: Dynamics of Sediment, T57. Management and Restoration of Fluvial Systems:
Vegetation, and Organic Matter in Altered and Unaltered Rehabilitating or Accommodating Altered Hydrologic and
Systems Sediment Regimes
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division
GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Soils and Soil
Processes Interdisciplinary Interest Group; GSA Sedimentary Disciplines: Geomorphology, Environmental Geoscience
Geology Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Advocates: Sara L. Rathburn; L. Allan James; Bruce Rhoads
Disciplines: Geomorphology, Environmental Geoscience, Soils
This session explores the temporal dynamics and spatial
Advocates: Derek M. Schook; Katherine B. Lininger; Nicholas breadth of river management and restoration. Historical recon-
A. Sutfin structions of long-term change, short-term remote sensing change
detection, predictive modeling, implementation strategies, and
We encourage abstracts that investigate the timing, distribu- monitoring effectiveness are encouraged.
tion, and mechanisms of floodplain creation and reconfiguration
with a focus on feedbacks between hydrologic connectivity,
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