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GSA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
T170. Rock Transforming to Soil—The Weathering Engine T174. Cordilleran Ice Sheet Outburst Floods: From Glacial
Intersects with the Carbon Cycle Lake Missoula to the Hubbard Glacier
Cosponsors: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Cosponsor: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division
Interest Group; GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division;
Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology,
Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
Disciplines: Soils, Environmental Geoscience, Geochemistry
Advocates: Ingrid Hendy; Joel H. Gombiner
Advocates: Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad; Marjorie Schulz
Risks from catastrophic outburst flooding from sediment and
Geology and biology interact in hotspots of geochemical ice dams increase as glaciers retreat. This session showcases our
activity along the root rhizosphere. These reactions control soil understanding the largest of floods with the development of new
development, nutrient availability, erosion, carbon cycling, etc. geochemical and modeling techniques, and extensive fieldwork.
We welcome submissions from all scales, laboratory, field, and
modeling studies. T175. Earthquakes, Faults, and Fault Systems in
the Pacific Northwest
T171. Terroir
Cosponsors: Washington Division of Geology and Earth
Cosponsor: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Resources; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Interest Group
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Tectonics/Tectonophysics
Disciplines: Soils, Quaternary Geology, Environmental
Geoscience Advocates: Timothy J. Walsh; Corina Forson
Advocates: Scott Burns; Kevin R. Pogue New insights into active faults of the Pacific Northwest are fos-
tered by mapping tools such as LiDAR, InSAR, temporary seis-
Terroir is the relationship of geology, soils, and climate to wine. mometer deployments, geologic mapping, potential field studies,
It is the taste of the place. We will discuss these factors related to and paleoseismic trenches.
mainly wine, but will open it up to other items.
T176. Glacier-Landscape Interactions, Loess Paleoclimatology,
.QUATERNARY GEOLOGY and Interdisciplinary Quaternary Science: In Memory of
Stephen C. Porter
T172. A Call to Arms: Applying Quaternary Science
in the 21st Century Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division
Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division; U.S. National Committee-International Quaternary Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology,
Congress; GSA Geology and Society Division; American Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
Quaternary Association (AMQUA); GSA Soils and Soil Processes
Interdisciplinary Interest Group Advocates: Glenn D. Thackray; Richard B. Waitt; Zhisheng An
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Soils, Environmental Stephen Porter influenced Quaternary science for several
Geoscience decades. We seek contributions documenting glacier-landscape
interactions and chronologies, loess paleoclimatology, and inter-
Advocates: Julio Betancourt; Rolfe D. Mandel disciplinary science, on all Quaternary time scales and regions,
reflecting the breadth of Porter’s work.
This session addresses how profound environmental, techno-
logical, and societal trends, and their interactions, pose formidable T177. Ice Streams of North American Ice Sheets and Their
consequences, requiring a repurposing and retooling of applied Stratigraphic and Sedimentary Record
Quaternary science, with applications spanning disciplines, nations,
and existing and emerging problems. Cosponsor: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Division
T173. Change Detection Photogrammetry in Earth Science
Discipline: Quaternary Geology
Cosponsors: GSA Geoinformatics Division; GSA Environmental
and Engineering Geology Division Advocates: Michel Parent; Martin Ross; Richard Berg
Disciplines: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, While satellite imagery rapidly advanced the recognition of
Geoinformatics Late Quaternary ice streams, firm linkages with sedimentary/
chronologic records, including glacial readvances, are now being
Advocates: Kristin E. Sweeney; Emily S. Schultz-Fellenz established. Contributions on the North American ice stream
geological record are welcomed.
As techniques for acquisition, processing, and analyses of pho-
togrammetric datasets advance, the use of this method in a mod-
ern context permits robust and rapid change detection across a
wide swath of earth science applications.
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