Dates

Topics

Readings

Week 1

23-24 Aug

Stream and Watershed Basics

Leopold, 1994, Ch. 1-6,
http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/video/hm%20short.mov

Leopold, 1994, Ch. 10-12, 13-14

Walker, Jennifer, and Rengers, Francis, 2003, Bankfull:Geology 493 CLass Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, VHS Videotape, ~ 20 minutes.

Stream Systems Technology Center, 2003, Identifying Bankfull Stage in Forested Streams in the Eastern United States,  USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station,  DVD format, 31 minutes. Info avail at http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/videos.html

Other Source:
Stream Systems Technology Center, 1999, A Guide for Field Identification of Bankfull Stage in the Western United States, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, VHS videotape and DVD format, 31 (sic) minutes. Info: http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/publications/videos.html

Week 3

9 Sept

Stream Classification
and Assessment

Leopold, 1994, Ch. 8-9

Naiman, R.J., 1998, Biotic Stream Classification, in Naiman, R.J., and Bilby, R.E., eds., River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 97-119. http://www.fish.washington.edu/people/naiman/CV/reprints/chapter_5.pdf or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Naiman1998chapter_5.pdf

Rosgen, David L, 1994, A classification of natural rivers: Catena, v. 22, p. 169-199.  (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) http://www.wildlandhydrology.com/assets/CLASS_OF_NATURAL_RIVERS_300.pdf
or  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Rosgen1994ClassificationRivers.pdfRosgen1994ClassificationRivers.pdf

Bunte, Kristin, and Abt, Steven R., 2001, Sampling Surface and Subsurface Particle-Size DIstributions in Wadable Gravel- and Cobble-Bed Streams for Analysis in Sediment Transport, Hydraulic and Streambed Monitoring, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-74, 428 p. (Read Ch 1 only)
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/BunteAbt2001_chap1.pdf
or  http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr74/02_chap1.pdf
Parent Directory for all chapters: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr74/

Read One of the following Montgomery and Buffington Articles:  Extra Credit for reading both of you write a paragraph on which is more appropriate for this class:

Montgomery, D.R., and Buffington, J.M., 1997, Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins:  Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 109, no 5,
p. 596-611.  Pictures of Stream Classes Only: http://www.student.montana.edu/~uessc/esci514/mtgombuffigs.html  or

Montgomery, D. R., and Buffington, J. M., 1998, Channel Processes, Classification, and Response, in Naiman, R.J., and Bilby, R.E., eds., River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 13-42.  URL:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Montgomery_Buffington1998channel.pdf

Local Field Trip  5:15-7:15  Tu, Sept 14 - Meet at White Hall

Review of Leopold's Book

Week 5- Tuesday

21 Sep

Fall 2004 Test:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/2004Test1Geo427.html

Beware that the Post-2003 Test 1 May NOT include all of the lectures and readings that WERE covered on older tests.
Spring 2003 Test 1: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Spring2003GEOL493RiversTes1.html
and on Fall 2003 Test 1: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2003FallGEOL492_427Test1.html

Week 5 Thursday

Week 6

28-30 Sept

5:15-7:15  Tu, Sept 28 - Meet at White Hall

Allan, J.D., 1995, The river continuum concept, in Allan, J.D., ed. Stream Ecology Structure and Function of Running Waters: London, Chapman & Hall, p. 276-281, URL: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Allan1995Stream_eco.pdf

Baptist, M.J., 2001, Review on biogeomorphology in rivers: processes and scales. CFR report 3, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 19 p. URL:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Baptist2001Review_biogeomorphology.pdf

Hupp, Cliff R., 1988, Plant ecological aspects of flood geomorphology and paleoflood history, in Baker, Victor R., Kochel, R. Craig, and Patton, Peter C., editors, Flood Geomorphology: New York, John Wiley and Sons, p. 335-356.
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hupp1988-plant-0.pdf

Other Sources: 

Thorne, Bill, 2002, Upper Deckers Creek... Before and After, Deckers Creek Update, Spring 2002, p. 4-5.http://www.deckerscreek.org/UpdateSpr2002.pdf

Montgomery, David R., 2004, Geology, geomorphology, and the restoration ecology of salmon: GSA Today: Vol. 14, No. 11, pp. 4–12. http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Montgomery2004GSATodaySalmon.pdf

Week  7

7 Oct

Clean Water Act

Watershed Associations

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2003, Introduction to the Clean Water Act (Web Site)  URL: http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/cwa/

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, undated, Section 404 of the Clean Water Act,  web site URL: http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/functions/cw/cecwo/reg/sec404.htm

Other Sites for those who thirst for more Clean Water...
Clean Water Act Status: Entire United States © 2004 Environmental Defense
http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/water/cwa-us.tcl#maps

Eco-Portal - The Environmental Sustainability.Info Source 
http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/Water/Rivers/   

Oct 10

Week 8

12 - 14 Oct

Flood Basics

Buffalo Creek 1972: "I didn't see God drivin' no slate truck ..."

Leopold, 1994 Ch 7

Appalshop, 1975, The Buffalo Creek flood: an act of man. [Motion picture], Whitesburg, KY: Appalshop, Inc.

West Virginia State Archives.
http://www.wvculture.org/history/buffcreek/bctitle.html

Week 9

Tu Oct 19

National Park Service, 2002, Run for Your Lives! The Johnstown Flood of 1889, URL: www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/5johnstown/5johnstown.htm

Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 2004, A Brief History of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, web site URL:  http://www.jaha.org/FloodMuseum/history.html

Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 2004, Facts about the Johnstown Flood, web site URL:  http://www.jaha.org/FloodMuseum/facts.html

Other Sources:
Law, Anwei, 1997, The Great Flood. Johnstown Area Heritage Association, 106 p.

Degen, Paula, and Degen, Carl, 1984, The Johnstown Flood of 1889: The Tragedy of the Conemaugh. Eastern Acorn Press,  64 p. 

Guggenheim, Charles, 1989, The Johnstown Flood: Johnstown Flood Museum, 26 minutes, Black and White, Price: $24.95 

Floods through Time, Flood Preparedness

FEMA

Flood Wrap Up
Home Videos

McCullough, David, 1968, The Johnstown Flood: New York, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 302 p. 

FEMA Web Site (www.FEMA.gov)

FIRM maps http://msc.fema.gov/

Other Sources:
Kite, J. Steven, and Torres, Neidi, 1988, A short history of flooding in the Cheat River basin, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Morgantown WV, West Virginia University (unpublished manuscript), 29 p.

Week 10 Oct 28
Thursday

No Class

Kite Sick

Week 11

Tu 2 Nov

Week  11

Th 4 Nov

No Classes

Missed Classes Make Up for Early Field Trip Departures & Late Returns.

Week 13

16-18 Nov

Landslide Basics I

Landslide Basics II

Spring 2003 Rt 119 Landslide Field Trip Images
 

Iverson, Richard M., 2002, Highlights from USGS Debris Flow Flume Studies, 1 VHS videotape. 

Costa, John E., and Williams, Garnett P., 1984, Debris-flow dynamics: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 84-606, 1 VHS videotape. JSK Notes

Review a chapter on Mass-Movement (Mass-Wasting, or Landslides) in an intro Physical Geology Textbook:

Gori, Paula L., and Burton, William C., 1996, Debris-Flow Hazards in the Blue Ridge of Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet-159-96. URL: http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/nlic/blueridge.htm

Highland, Lynn M., Ellen, Stephenson D., Christian, Sarah B., and Brown, William M., III, 1997, Debris-Flow Hazards in the United States : U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 176-97, 4 p. URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-176-97/fs-176-97.pdf  or http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-176-97/fs-176-97.html

Potter, Noel, Jr; Delano, Helen L., 1997, The Carlisle (PA) deluge revisited; a debris flow in 1779: Geological Society of America, 1997 Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 29, no. 6, p. 411.

Fonner, R. F., 1987, Homeowner's guide to geologic hazards: Mountain State Geology, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, p. 1-9. Revised 1999 version on line at http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/geohaz/geohaz3.htm

Hansen, Michael C., 1995, Landslides in Ohio: Ohio Division of Geological Survey GeoFacts No. 8, 2 p.  On-Line Version
 

Read Abstract and Table 4 Only:
Hungr, O.; Evans, S.G.; Bovis, M.J.; and Hutchinson, J.N., 2001, A review of the classification of landslides of the flow type: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. 7, no. 3, p. 221-238. (On-line abstract Only)

Other Sources:
Hungr and others 2001. (Paper as 26 mb .pdf file).

23-25 Nov

No Class

Thanksgiving Recess

Landslide Geomorphology II

Landslide Mitigation and Loss Reduction

Campbell, Russell H., Varnes, David J., Fleming, Robert W., Hampton, Monty A., Prior David B.,  Sangrey, Dwight A., Nichols, Donald R., and Brabb, Earl E., 1985, Landslide classification for identification of mud flows and other landslides, in Campbell, Russell H., editor, Feasibility of a nationwide program for the identification and delineation of hazards from mud flows and other landslides: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-276, p. A1-A24 (Click Here for a .pdf file).

Lessing, Peter, Kulander, Byron R., Wilson, Bruce D., Dean, Stuart L., and Woodring, Stanley M., 1976, West Virginia landslides and slide-prone areas: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Environmental Geology Bulletin No. 15, 64 p.

Spiker, Elliott C., 2000, and Gori, Paula, L., 2000,  National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy, a Framework for Loss Reduction: U.S. Geological. Surv. Open-File Report 00-450, 59 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/ofr-00-0450/ofr-00-0450.pdf

Crowell 1997 (Mine Subsidence)

Week  15

Tu Dec 7

Test 3 - Final Exam

Final Exam  at  5:30p.m. Tuesday
Final Exam: Fall 2003 (note typo)  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004Geol493Test3.htm
Final Exam: Fall 2004 http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/2004FallGeol493Test3.htm