Geology/Geography 621: Advanced Fluvial Geomorphology
Final Class Schedule, Fall 2004, Version 1.0 (23 August)
J. Steven Kite, West Virginia University
Where to Find Updates of this File: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Schedule621.html

Link to Class Description: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/GEO_621_Description.html

Back to Kite's Teaching Page: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/teaching.html


Text books:
All are available through Amazon.com.  Strunk and White should be in almost any used bookstore.


Required textbook

Knighton,  David, 1998, Fluvial Forms and Processes : A New Perspective (Paperback), Revised edition,  Arnold Publishers; 400 p., ISBN: 0340663138

Recommended Supplemental Text
Strunk, William, Jr., White, E.B., and Angell, Roger, 2000, The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition (Paperback), Longman, 105 p. ISBN: 020530902X
   
The 3rd edition is OK, too.  So are the 1st or 2nd edition, except they lack an index.
Truss, Lynne, 2004, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Publisher: Gotham, 228 p., ISBN: 1592400876


Date Topic Preliminary Reading Assignments
Underlined Blue Boldface Italic = Available On-Line
24 Aug  Class organization. Basic fluvial concepts.  

Basic fluvial geomorphology concepts. Ritter and Other chapters 5, 6, 7 & 12; Handouts from Kite 321 Class.
27 Aug No Class (Faculty Mtg)  
31 Aug Basic fluvial geomorphology concepts. Ritter and Other chapters 5, 6, 7 & 12; Handouts from Kite 321 Class.
2 Sep Basic fluvial geomorphology concepts. Ritter and Other chapters 5, 6, 7 & 12; Handouts from Kite 321 Class.

Add for 2006 "Basics"
Wahl, Kenneth L., Thomas, Wilbert O., Jr., and Hirsch, Robert M., 1995, Stream-Gaging Program of the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1123: ? p, http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ1123/index.html#HDR16
3 Sept Basics TEST (Faculty Mtg) May be taken at 8:00 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.
7 Sep Rosgen Stream Classification, Channel Units, Habitats Rosgen, David L, 1994, A classification of natural rivers: Catena, v. 22, p. 169-199.  (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) wildlandhydrology.com/assets/CLASS_OF_NATURAL_RIVERS_300.pdf (If it won't load, try this!)

Kite, J. Steven, 2003, Fluvial geomorphology train is leaving the station; shouldn’t we be on board?: Stream Notes (Quarterly): USDA Forest Service Stream Systems Technology Center, Fort Collins, CO, October 2003 issue, p. 6-7.  URL http://stream.fs.fed.us/news/streamnt/pdf/StreamOCT4.pdf

Classification Example with Photos (GEO 427/493) http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/EnochBranchTribClassifExerWVUGeo427.html


William W. Emmett, 2004,  Historical Perspective on Regional Channel Geometry Curves: USDA Forest Service Stream Systems Technology Center, Fort Collins, CO, January 2004 issue, p. 5-6, URL:  http://stream.fs.fed.us/news/streamnt/pdf/jan04.pdf or
http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/news/streamnt/jan04/jan04_02.htm

others readings not assigned: 
+Rosgen, David L. 1996, Applied River Morphology, Wildland Hydrology, Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
+

Harrelson, Cheryl C., Rawlins, C.L., and Potyondy, John P., 1994, Stream channel reference sites: an illustrated guide to field technique: General Technical Report RM-245:  Fort Collins, CO, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 61 p.
9 Sep Stream Classification II - Alternatives to Rosgen

Montgomery, D. R., and Buffington, J. M., 1998, Channel Processes, Classification, and Response, in Naiman, R.J., and Bilby, R.E., River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion: New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 13-42.  URL:
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/teams/soils/Publications/montgomery_buffington_1998.pdf

OR

Montgomery, D.R. and J.M. Buffington. 1997. Channel-reach morphology in
mountain drainage basins. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
109:596-611. URL:

http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/boise/teams/soils/Publications/montgomery_buffington_1997.pdf


others readings not assigned:

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
or

Montgomery, D. R., and Buffington, J. M., 1993, Channel Classification, Prediction of Channel Response, and Assessment of Channel Condition, Washington State Department of Natural Resources Report TFW-SH10-93-002, 86p.
10 Sep
No Class Meeting

14 Sep Reactions to Rosgen Classification Select two readings from the next two dates and summarize them for class:
Papers and Desriptions Availlable on
Tom Blue's Web pages:  http://www.blwi.com/dwnlds.htm

Miller J R and J B Ritter; 1996; An examination of the Rosgen classification of natural rivers: Catena; 27: 295-299. http://www.blwi.com/MillerJR_RosgenClassification_Examination_1996aa.pdf
OR   http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/MillerJR_RosgenClassifExam1996.pdf  (Reed, George, Sandy, Eric)

Doyle M W, D E Miller, and J M Harbor; 1999; Should River Restoration Be Based on Classification Schemes or Process Models? (Insights from the History of Geomorphology): ASCE International Conference on Water Resources Engineering, Seattle, Washington.
http://www.blwi.com/DoyleMD_StreamRestoration_Historical_1999aa.pdf
or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/DoyleEtAlStreamRestorationHistorical1999.pdf  (Kendra, Sandy, Mike)

Kapitzke, Ross; 2003; Appendix C(4): Natural Channel Design at the University of Guelph, in Agencies, people and sites visited in Canada (Alberta & Ontario); Land and Water Australia Project JCU 15; Travelling Fellowship Report, p. 6-7.
http://www.blwi.com/KapitzkeR_Canada_ChannelDesignOverview_20030221aa.pdf
or 
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/KapitzkeCanadaChannelDesignOverview2003.pdf  (Ira)
16 Sep
Natural Stream Design
Shields, F D, R R Copeland, P C Klingeman, M W Doyle, and A Simon; 2003 Design for Stream Restoration; Journal of Hydraulic Engineering; 129, 8 (August): 575-584.
http://www.blwi.com/ShieldsFD_StreamRestorationDesign_2003aa.pdf
or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/ShieldsEtAlStreamRestDesign2003.pdf  (Kendra)

Skidmore, Peter B; F Douglas Shields, Martin W Doyle, and Dale E Miller; 2001: A Categorization of Approaches to Natural Channel Design; ASCE River Restoration Conference, Reno, NV.  http://www.blwi.com/SkidmorePB_NaturalChannelDesign_Approaches_2001.pdf
or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/SkidmoreEtAlNaturalChannelDesignApproaches2001.pdf  (Ryan, Eric)

Copeland, Ronald R, Dinah N McComas, Colin R Thorne, Philip J Soar, Meg M Jonas, and Jon B Fripp, 2001 Hydraulic Design of Stream Restoration Projects (ERDC/CHL TR-01-28) US Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS. 109 p., appendices. http://www.blwi.com/Corps_CHLTR-01-28_StreamRestorationHydraulicDesign.pdf (Reed)

other readings not assigned:

Kondolf, M.G., Smeltzer, M.W., and Railsback, S.F., 2001,  Design and Performance of a Channel Reconstruction Project in a Coastal California Gravel-Bed Stream,  Environmental Management, v. 28, no. 6, p. 761-776.

17 Sep
1:30-6:30 pm  Local Field Trip Meet in Lot 1
21 Sep The River Continuum Concept

Allan, J.D. 1995. The river continuum concept. in Stream Ecology: structure and function of running waters. Chapman & Hall, New York. pp. 276-281 
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/%7Ekite/Allan1995Stream_eco.pdf

Power, M.E. and W.E. Dietrich. 2002. Food webs in river networks. Ecological Research 17:451-471. http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/PowerAndDietrich2002FoodWebs.pdf

Sun G; S G McNulty, D M Amatya, R W Skaggs, L W Swift Jr, J P Shepard, and H Riekerk; 2002; A comparison of watershed hydrology of coastal forested wetlands and the mountainous uplands in the Southern US: Journal of Hydrology; 263: 92-104.
http://www.blwi.com/WatershedHydrology_MountainCoast_SoutheastUS01.pdf
or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/SunEtAlWatershedHydrologySoutheastUS2001.pdf (Ryan, George, Ira, Mike)

others readings not assigned: 
Minshall, G.W., R.C. Petersen, T.L. Bott, C.E. Cushing, K.W. Cummins, R.L. Vannote and J.R. Sedell. 1992. Stream ecosystem dynamics of the Salmon River, Idaho: an 8th-order system. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 11(2): 111-137. 
Minshall, G.W., R.C. Petersen, K.W. Cummins, T.L. Bott, J.R. Sedell, C.E. Cushing and R.L. Vannote. 1983. Interbiome comparison of stream ecosystem dynamics. Ecological Monographs 53(1): 1-25.
Vannote, R.L.. et al. 1975, BioScience 25, 376
Vannote, R.L., G.W. Minshall, K.W. Cummins, J.R. Sedell and C.E. Cushing. 1980. The river continuum concept. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, vol. 37, no.1, p. 130-137.
23 Sep
Fluvial Geomorphology & Adaptation to Streams & Bottomlands Rabeni, C.F., and Jacobson, R.B., 1993, The importance of fluvial hydraulics to fish-habitat restoration in low-gradient alluvial streams: Freshwater Biology, v. 29, p. 211-220. (Note some folders mislabeled as Jacobson & Rabeni)

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

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. Go to http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ log in with account name "Kite" and password "321"Click on  "GEOG 321" and click on "hupp-plant-0.pdf"  or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/hupp1988-plant-0.pdf

Wiens, John A., 2002, Riverine landscapes: taking landscape ecology into the water: Freshwater Biology v. 47, p. 501–515. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00887.x/pdf or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Wiens2002LandscapeEcology.pdf

others readings not assigned:
Newton, Bruce, Pringle, Catherine, and Bjorkland, Ronald, 1998, Stream Visual Assessment Protocol: National Water and Climatic Center Technical Note 99-1, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, 36 p. URL: http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/water/quality/common/svapfnl.pdf.
Petty, J. Todd, Fruend, Jason, Lamother, Peter, Mazik, Patricia, in press, Quatifying Instream Habitat in the Upper Shavers Fork Basin at Multiple Spatial Scales (ms), submitted to SEAFWA, 24 p.

Peterson, J.T., and C.F. Rabeni. 2001. Evaluating the physical characteristics of channel units in an Ozark stream. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:898-910.
Peterson, J.T., and C.F. Rabeni. 2001. The relation of fish assemblages to channel units in an Ozark stream. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130:911-926.

24 Sept No Class
28 Sep Applications in Fluvial Geomorphology
Pick two articles from Stream Notes to present in class.
Stream Notes (Available in Two Formats)
PDF Version: Starts with first issue, October 1992. Maintains original formatting

  URL: http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/news/index.html
HTML Version: Issues starting January, 1995. Also includes subject index
  URL: http://www.stream.fs.fed.us/news/sntoc.htm

Ryan & Reed
January 2004: Attributes of Bedrock Sierra Nevada Ecosystems by: Scott McBain and Bill Trush
Kendra  &
Ryan
July 2003-Hydrogeological Principles Useful in Predicting the Effects of Streamflow Alterations on Shallow Groundwater and Associated Riparian Vegetation
by:  Mark Cable Rains
George  & Ira
April 2003 Merritt and Wohl: Importance of Hydrochory (Water Dispersal of Seeds) in Free-Flowing and Regulated Rivers
Kendra
Jan 2002-Providing for Stream Function and Aquatic Organism Passage: An Interdisciplinary
Design
George
July 2000 Furniss et al. Hydrologically Connected Roads:  An Indicator of the Influence of Roads on Chronic Sedimentation, Surface Water Hydrology, and Exposure to Toxic Chemicals.
Sandy
Goodwin, C.N., October 1999, Improving future fluvial classification systems.
Potyondy, J., and Schmidt, L.,
October 1999,, Why do we exaggerate stream channel cross-section plots?  The case for true scale plotting.
(See Also Southerland W. Barry, 200, April, Comments on Exaggerated Channel Cross-sections)
Reed
Mannings  Equation and the Internal Combustion Engine. April 2000.
Ira
October 2001: "Mountain Rivers"

Eric (will not be in class)
April 1993 - Would the Real Bankfull Please Stand Up!
January 1998 - Fitzgerald, J., and Caty Clifton: Flooding, Land Use, and  Watershed Response in the Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington.

30 Sep Reference Reachs and Hydraulic Geometry Data

Messinger, Terence, and Wiley, Jeffrey B., 2004, Regional relations in bankfull channel characteristics determined from flow measurements at selected stream-gaging stations in West Virginia, 1911-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Investigations Report 03-4276, 43 p. http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/MessengerWiley2003wrir03-4276.pdf

Miller, Kimberly F., 2003, Assessment of channel geometry data through May 2003 in the Mid-Atlantic Highlands of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Investigations Report 03-388, 22 p. 
Go to
http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ log in with account name "Kite" and password "321"
Click on  "GEOG 321" and then click on "miller_2003-0.pdf"  or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite//miller_2003-0.pdf

Wiley, Jeffrey B., Atkins, John T, Jr., and Newell, Dawn A., 2002, Estimating the magnitude of annual peak discharges with recurrence intervals between 1.1 and 3.0 years for rural, unregulated streams in West Virginia, U. S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 02-4164, 73 p., 1 plate.  http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri024164/pdf/wri024164.pdf

Wiley, Jeffrey B., Atkins, John T, Jr., and Tasker, Gary D., 2000, Estimating magnitude and frequency of peak discharges for rural, unregulated, streams in West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4080, 93 p.  http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri004080/

1 Oct - 3 Oct
"Binghamton" Geomorphology Symposium in Kentucky

5 Oct
Paleohydraulics, Paleohydrology: Bedload Competence Jarrett, R.D., and Tomlinson, E.M., 2000, Regional interdisciplinary paleoflood approach to assess extreme flood potential: Water Resources Research, v. 36, no. 10, p. 2957-2984. (on-line abstract)
full paper: http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ and log in with account name "Kite" and password "321"
click on  "GEOG 321" and click on "jarrett_tomlinson_2000-0.pdf"  (file = 2.8 megs) or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/jarrett_tomlinson_2000-0.pdf

Costa, John E., 1983, Paleohydraulic reconstruction of flash flood peaks from boulder deposits in the Colorado Front Range: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 94, 986 1004.
http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ log in with account name "Kite" and password "321"
click on  "GEOG 321" and click on  "costa_1983-0.pdf"  or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/costa_1983-0.pdf

others readings not assigned:
Jarrett, Robert D., 1991, Paleohydrology and its value in estimating floods and droughts, in Paulson, R.W., Chase, E.B., Roberts, R.S., and Moody, D.W., Compilers, National Water Summary 1988-89--Hydrologic Events and Floods and Droughts: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2375, p. 105-116.

7 Oct
Paleohydrology:Slackwater-Deposits Step-Backwater Methods

Springer, G. S., 2002, Caves and their potential use in paleoflood studies, this volume, in House, P. K., Webb, R.H., Baker, V.R., and Levish,  D.R., editors, Ancient Floods, Modern Hazards: Principles and Applications of Paleoflood Hydrology, American Geophysical Union Water Science and Application Series Volume 5, p. 329-343.
http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ click on "GEOG 321" and click on "springer_2002-0.pdf"  or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/springer_2002-0.pdf

Kite, J. Steven, Gebhardt Terry W., and Springer, Gregory S., 2002, slackwater deposits as paleostage indicators in canyon reaches of the Central Appalachians: reevaluation after the 1996 Cheat River flood: in House, P. K., Webb, R.H., Baker, V.R., and Levish,  D.R., editors, Ancient Floods, Modern Hazards: Principles and Applications of Paleoflood Hydrology, American Geophysical Union Water Science and Application Series Volume 5, p. 257-266. http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ click on "GEOG 321" and click on "kite_etal_2002-0.pdf" or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/kite_etal_2002-0.pdf

8 Oct
No Class (Faculty Mtg)
10 Oct
Ice Mountain Trip
Leave at 9:00 a.m.

http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/westvirginia/preserves/art1208.html
12 Oct
Debris Flows & Hyperconcentrated Flows I
(We will view the videotapes in Class)


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.
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/CampbellAndOthers1985.pdf

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)
Whole Paper: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/HungrAndOthers2001FullPaper.pdf ( = 25 Megs) Table 4 only: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/HungrAndOther2001Table4.pdf

Morgan, Benjamin A., Eaton,  L. Scott, and Wieczorek, Gerald F., 2004, Pleistocene and Holocene Colluvial Fans and Terraces in the Blue Ridge Region of Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-410 Online Only Version 1.0,http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-410/
Use high-speed internet connection to look at the "Low resolution [9.3-MB PDF file]"  map.  Start with the area of Madison County near Kinsey Run, which lies near the junnction of the 4th grid line from the right and the 6th grid line from the top.    With a normal monitor, you will need to view the map at 100% or larger to see much.

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

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

others readings not assigned:
Wieczorek, Gerald F., Morgan, Benjamin A., and Campbell, Russell H., 2000, Debris-flow hazards in the Blue Ridge of Central Virginia, Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. VI, no. 1, p. 3-23. Abstract
The June 27, 1995, storm in Madison County, Virginia produced debris flows and floods that devastated a small (130 km (super 2) ) area of the Blue Ridge in the eastern United States. Although similar debris-flow inducing storm events may return only approximately once every two thousand years to the same given locale, these events affecting a similar small-sized area occur about every three years somewhere in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. From physical examinations and mapping of debris-flow sources, paths, and deposits in Madison County, we develop methods for identifying areas subject to debris flows using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. We examined the rainfall intensity and duration characteristics of the June 27, 1995, and other storms, in the Blue Ridge of central Virginia, and have defined a minimum threshold necessary to trigger debris flows in granitic rocks. In comparison with thresholds elsewhere, longer and more intense rainfall is necessary to trigger debris flows in the Blue Ridge.


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

Pierson, T. C., and Costa, J. E., 1987, A rheological classification of subaerial sediment water flows: in Costa, J. E., and Wieczorek, G. F., Debris Flows/Avalanches: Process, recognition, and Mitigation, Reviews in Engineering Geology Volume VII, Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 1-12. 

Iverson, R.M., 1997, The physics of debris flows: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 35, p. 245-296.

Neary D. G., and Swift, L.W., Jr., 1987; Rainfall thresholds for triggering a debris avalanching event in the southern Appalachian Mountains : in Costa, J. E., and Wieczorek, G. F., Debris Flows/Avalanches: Process, recognition, and Mitigation, Reviews in Engineering Geology Volume VII, Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 81 92.

Coe, Jeff A., 1999, Debris flows triggered by the rainstorm of July 28, 1999, Interstate-70 corridor, Georgetown to the Eisenhower Tunnel, central Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Provisional On-Line Report, http://landslides.usgs.gov/i70/index.html 

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. 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.
http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/factsheets/html_files/debrisflow/fs176-97.html
14 Oct
Paleoflood Hydrology I

Baker, Victor R, 2002,  The study of superfloods: Science, v.295, no.5564 (29 Mar), p. 2379-2380, Text only available through http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/databases/  Use GeoRef to seach on "Baker, Victor R." as author. Click on "Article Linker" on right side of entry for this article.

Baker, Victor R., and Kochel, R. Craig, 1988, Flood sedimentation in bedrock fluvial systems, in Baker, Victor R., Kochel, R. Craig, and Patton, Peter C., editors, Flood Geomorphology: New York, John Wiley and Sons, p. 123-137.

Other Sources
Baker, Victor R., 1973, Paleohydrology and sedimentology of Lake Missoula flooding in eastern Washington: Geological Society of America Special Paper 144, 79 p.
Baker, Victor R., 1988, Geological Fluvial Geomorphology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1157‑1167.
Baker, Victor R., Benoto, Gerardo, Rudnoy, Alexey N. Rudoy, 1993, Paleohydrology of late Pleistocene superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia, Science, v. 259, p. 348-350.
Baker, Victor R., and Bunker, Russell C., 1985, Cataclysmic Late Pleistocene Flooding from Glacial Lake Missoula: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 4, p. 1‑41.  
Baker, Victor R., and Costa, John E., 1987, Flood power, in Mayer, Larry, and Nash, David, editors, Catastrophic Flooding: London, Allen and Unwin, p. 1‑21.
Baker, Victor R., Kochel, R. Craig, Patton, Peter C., and Pickup, G., 1983, Paleohydrologic analysis of Holocene flood slack‑water sediments: Special Publs International Association Sediment., v. 6, p. 229‑239.
Baker, Victor R., and Ritter, D. F., 1975, Competence of rivers to transport coarse bedload material: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 86, p. 975‑978.

Waitt, Richard B., Jr. 1985, Case for periodic, colossal jokulhlaups from Pleistocene glacial Lake Missoula: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 1271‑1286.

15 Oct
Take Home Mid Term Distributed
(Faculty Meeting)


17 Oct
8 am -
9 pm

North Fork Mountain Debris Flow Trip
Teets, Bob, and Young, Shelby, 1985, Killing waters: the great West Virginia Flood of 1985, Terra Alta, W. Va., Cheat River Publishing, 112 p.

Jacobson, Robert B., editor, Geomorphic studies of the storm and flood of November 3-5, 1985, in the upper Potomac River basin: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1981.

Cenderelli, D. A., and Kite, J. S., 1998, Geomorphic effect of large debris flows on channel morphology at North Fork Mountain, eastern West  Virginia, USA:  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 23, p. 1-19. 
http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ click on "GEOG 321" and click on "cenderelli98-0.pdf" or click on individual smaller subdivided files from the paper or 
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/
cenderelli98-0.pdf   (file size = 7 Megs)

19 Oct
Paleoflood Hydrology II

Dating Methods for Alluvial Deposits and Landforms

Blais-Stevens, A., Clague, J.J.,  Mathewes, R.W. , R.J. Hebda, Bornhold, B.D., 2003, Record of large, Late Pleistocene outburst floods preserved in Saanich Inlet sediments, Vancouver Island, Canada Quaternary Science Reviews v. 22 p. 2327–2334.
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/BlaisStevensEtAl2003LPlOutBurstFloodsBC.pdf

Bierman, Paul R., Lini, Andrea, Zehfuss, Paul, Church, Amy, Davis, P. Thompson, Southon, John, and Baldwin, Lyn, 1997, Postglacial ponds and alluvial fans: recorders of Holocene landscape history: GSA Today, v. 7, no. 10, p. 1-8.
ftp://rock.geosociety.org/pub/GSAToday/gt9710.pdf
or http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/BiermanEtAl1997GeologyTodayf.pdf

others readings not assigned:
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/SEFOP/Potomac%20Guidebook.pdf
or  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Potomac%20Guidebook.pdf

Gob, F., Petit, F.,  Bravard, J.-P., Ozer A. and Gob, A., 2003, Lichenometric application to historical and subrecent dynamics and sediment transport of a Corsican stream (Figarella River—France) Quaternary Science Reviews,  v. 22, issue 20 , p. 2111-2124  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/GobEtAl2003LichenometryFluvial.pdf

21 Oct
Cosmogenic Dating Methods

Rittenour, T. M., Goble, R. J., and BLUM, M. D. (2003) Luminescence geochronology of late Pleistocene braid channelbelts of the Mississippi River. Quaternary Science Reviews. v. 22, pp. 1105-1110.  URL
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/RittenourEtAl2003PoorCopy.pdf    -  Copy is very bad!

Abstract: The lower Mississippi valley (LMV) contains many large braided channel belts that are preserved west of the Holocene floodplain. Previous efforts to establish geochronologic control on channel-belt construction have been hindered by the lack of organic material for radiocarbon dating. Luminescence techniques provide a burial date for the sediment itself and may prove useful in this context. Samples from three channel belts in the northern LMV were analyzed using the single aliquot-regenerative technique on 90–125 small mu, Greekm quartz. Optical ages (19.7–17.8, 16.1–15.0 and 12.5–12.1 ka) are consistent with geomorphic relationships and indicate that channel belts were formed in the late Pleistocene under glacial conditions. These optical ages provide the first detailed chronology of LMV channel-belt formation and are the first step towards developing a chronology for the entire LMV.

Bierman, P. R., 1994, Using in situ produced cosmogenic isotopes to estimate rates of landscape evolution: A review from the geomorphic perspective: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 99, no. b7, p. 13,885-13,896.  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Bierman1994InSituCosmo.pdf

Other Sources
Wintle, A. G., and Huntley, D. J., 1982, Thermoluminescence dating of sediments: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 1, p. 31‑51
.
Bierman, P. R., Gillespie, A. R., and  Caffee, M.W., 1995, Cosmogenic Ages For Earthquake Recurrence Intervals and Debris Flow Fan Deposition, Owen Valley, California:  Science, v. 270,  p. 447 - 450.
Cerling, T.E., and Craig, H., 1994, Geomorphology and In-Situ Cosmogenic Isotopes: Annual Review of Earth Science, v. 22, p. 273-317.

Blum, M. D., Guccione, M. J., Wysocki, D. and Robnett, P. C. (2000) Late Pleistocene evolution of the Mississppi valley, southern Missouri to Arkansas. Geological Society of America Bulletin. v. 112, pp. 221-235.
Stokes, S., Bray, H. E., and BLUM, M. D. (2000) Optical resetting in large drainage basins: tests of zeroing assumptions using single-aliquot procedures. Quaternary Science Reviews (Quaternary Geochronology). v. 20, pp. 879-885.
 

22-23 Oct

Depart ~1:30 p.m. Fri.

Camp Overnight
 
Return ~10 p.m. Sat.
SEFOP  (Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene)

"The Incision History of a Passive Margin River, the Potomac Near Great Falls"   Great Falls Park, Great Falls, VA-MD
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/SEFOP/index.htm
This field trip will focus on the ages of bedrock strath terraces bordering the Potomac River above and below Great Falls. Recent cosmogenic exposure dating shows that the Potomac incised rapidly into Piedmont crystalline bedrock during the Last Glacial Maximum.  Incision of more than 20m occured after 35ka to form Mather Gorge, a spectacular geomorphic feature in an unglaciated basin in a passive >margin setting.  The  geomorphology of the Potomac and factors that contributed to this rapid channel adjustment will be discussed.

Guidebook: http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/SEFOP/Potomac%20Guidebook.pdf
or 
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Potomac%20Guidebook.pdf

Reusser, Luke J., Bierman, Paul R., Pavich, Milan J., Zen, E-an Zen, Larsen, Jennifer, and Finkel, Robert, 2004, Rapid Late Pleistocene Incision of Atlantic Passive-Margin River Gorges: Science, v. 305, p. 499-502.  http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eespteam/SEFOP/Reusser_etal_science.pdf or  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Reusser_etal_2004science.pdf

26 Oct
Stream Piracy I -

Salem Outlet Map Exercise
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/SalemDrainageDivide.html
Goldthwait, Richard P., 1991, The Teays Valley problem: a historical perspective, in Melhorn, W.N., and Kempton, J.P., eds., Geology and hydrogeology of the Teays-Mahomet Bedrock Valley System: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 258, p. 3-8.

Hansen, Michael C., 1995, The Teays River: Ohio Division of Geological Survey GeoFacts No. 10, 2 p.
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey/geo_fact/geo_f10.htm

Other Sources:
Harbor, David.. SEFOP guidebook
Fridley, H. M., 1939, Solution and stream piracy: Journal of Geology, v. 47, p. 178‑188.
Thompson HD, 1939. Drainage evolution in the southern Appalachians. Bull Geol Soc Am 47:1323–1356.

Bonnett, R.B., Noltimier, H.C., and Sanderson, D.D., 1978, Paleomagnetic results from the Minford Silt, Teays Depot, West Virginia, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol.59, no.4, pp.224.
Bonnett, R.B., Noltimier, H.C., and Sanderson, D.D., 1991, A paleomagnetic study of the early Pleistocene Minford Silt Member, Teays Formation, West Virginia, in Melhorn, W.N., and Kempton, J.P., eds., Geology and hydrogeology of the Teays-Mahomet Bedrock Valley System: Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America Special Paper 258, p. 9-18.
Heff, James R; Blankenship, Terry L; Bonnett, Richard B; Scrudato, Ronald J, 1970, Teays river and lake deposits: Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol.2, no.3, pp.233-234.
Rhodehamel, E.C., and Carlston, C.W., 1963, Geologic history of the Teays Valley in West Virginia, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 74, p. 251-274.
Fridley, H. M., 1950, The Geomorphic history of the New-Kanawha River system: West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Report of Investigation No. 7, 12 p.
Fridley, H. M., 1940, Watergaps by solution and piracy: a reply: American Journal of Science, v. 238, p. 226‑233. Ver Steeg, K., 1940, The formation of watergaps by solution and piracy: American Journal of Science. v. 238, p. 32‑41.
Chamberlin, T. C. and Leverett, F., 1894, Studies of the drainage features of the Upper Ohio Basin: American Journal of Science, v. 47, 263 p. 
Leverett, Frank, 1902, Glacial formations and drainage features of the Erie and Ohio basins: U.S. Geological Survey Monogram XLI, 802 p.
Leverett, Frank, 1934, Glacial deposits outside the Wisconsin terminal moraine in Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey, 4th Series, Bulletin G 7, 123 p.  (Phy Sci P155 G7)

Leverett, Frank, 1939, Stream capture and drainage shifting in the Upper Ohio region: Journal of Geomorphology, v. 2, p. 339‑359.

28 Oct
Stream Piracy II - The response

Kinziger,A. P., and Raesly, R. L., 2001,A Narrow Hybrid Zone Between Two Cottus Species in Wills Creek, Potomac Drainage: The Journal of Heredity v. 92, no. 4, p. 309-314.  URL: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Kinzinger_Raesly2001WillsCrekSculpin.pdf

Howard JH and RP Morgan, 1993. Allozyme variation in the mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi): a test of stream capture hypotheses. Copeia 1993: p. 870–875.  

Michael B. Bonsall,Vincent A. A. Jansen, Michael P. Hassell, 2004 Life History Trade-Offs Assemble Ecological Guilds: Science, Vol 306, Issue 5693, 111-114 , 1 October 2004

29 Oct No Class

2 Nov
Election Day Recess:
Applied Project: Mitigation of Washout on Landslide near Hildebrand Lock and Dam   Not done Kite Sick!
4 Nov Discuss Mid-term Exam

First Draft of Paper Preferred Due Date


5 Nov
No Class  (Faculty Mtg)
9 Nov No Class, GSA Meeting, Denver See Dr. K about Extra Credit for attending.
11 Nov
No Class, GSA Meeting, Denver See Dr. K about Extra Credit for attending
12 Nov No Class  (Faculty Mtg)
16 Nov
No Class, Kite Still Sick!


18 Nov
Human-Impacts on Streams:
PSA (Post-Settlement Alluvium), PSS (Post-Settlement Surfaces) and other Legacies of Euro-American Land Use
Trimble, Stan W., 1983, A sediment budget for Coon Creek basin in the Driftless Area, Wisconsin, 1853‑1977: American Journal of Science, v. 283, p. 454‑474.

Pick ONE of these TWO papers:
Jacobson, Robert B., and Coleman, Derrick J., 1986, Stratigraphy and recent floodplain evolution of Maryland Piedmont flood plains: American Journal of Science, v. 286, p. 617‑637.

Jacobson, R.B., Femmer, S.F., and McKenney, Rose, 2001, Land-Use Changes and the Physical Habitat of Streams: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1175, 63 p. URL: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ/circ1175/pdf/circ1175.pdf

Other Sources:
Trimble, S.W., and Lund, S.W., 1982, Soil Conservation in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, v. 37 (November-December) p. 355-356.
Davis, Eric N., 1995, Slackwater deposition and landform creation associated with navigation and mill dams (M.A. thesis): Morgantown, West Virginia University, 172 p.
Knox, James C., 1977, Human impacts on Wisconsin stream channels: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, v. 67, p. 323 342.

Wolman, M Gordon; Schick, Asher P., 1967, Effects of construction on fluvial sediment, urban and suburban areas of Maryland: Water Resources Research, v. 3, no. 2, p. 451-464.
Hollis, G.E., 1988, Rain, roads, roofs and runoff: hydrology in cities : Geography, v. 73, p. 9-18. 
Hooke, Roger LeB., 1999,  Spatial distribution of human geomorphic activity in the United States; comparison with rivers: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v. 24, p. 687-692.

19 Nov
 No Class Meeting

23 Nov No Class Meeting, Thanksgiving
25 Nov No Class Meeting, Thanksgiving
26 Nov
No Class Meeting, Thanksgiving
30 Nov
No Class Meeting
Kite Giving Paper at Canaan Valey Institute

2 Dec
Flood-Flow Modelling II
HEC-RAS (Hydrologic Engineering Centers River Analysis System) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (web site), URL: http://www.hec.usace.army.mil/software/hec-ras/hecras-hecras.html

HEC-RAS exercise http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/HEC_RAS_Exercise.html

3 Dec
3:00
No class (Faculty Mtg)
Jim McGraw, WVU Biology
Geography Colloquium
Spatiotemporal issues in plant population biology

7 Dec
Student Presentations -
Kendra:
Reed:

Sandy:
TBA
TBA
TBA
9 Dec
Student Presentations -
Ryan:
Ira:
George:
TBA
TBA
TBA
10 Dec No Class - (Faculty Mtg & Kite's Birthday)
15 Dec, 3:00 p.m.
Final Exam at 3:00 p.m.
Old Final Exams:
Fall 2004 text - maps   Fall 2002  Fall 2000












 

  Flood Climatology

 

Hirschboeck, Katherine K., 1991, Hydrology of floods and droughts, climate and floods: U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 2375, p. 67-88.

Knox, James C., 1993, Large increases in flood magnitude in response to modest changes in climate: Nature, v. 361, p. 430-432.

Kochel, R. Craig, 1987, Holocene debris flows in central Virginia, in Costa, J.E., and Wieczorek, G.F., Debris Flows/Avalanches: Processes, Recognition, and Mitigation: Geological Society of America Reviews in Engineering Geology Volume VII, p. 139-155.

others readings not assigned:
Dunne & Leopold, 1978, p. 279-287, 298-322 (skim rest of ch. 10)


Cheat Canyon Flood Studies
 

Springer, Greg S., and Kite, J. Steven, 1997, Cave sedimentation and erosional history in the Cheat River Canyon, north-central West Virginia: Geomorphology, v. 18, p. 91-100.

Springer, Greg S., Kite, J. Steven, and Victor A. Schmidt, 1997, Cave sedimentation, genesis, and erosional history in the Cheat River Canyon, West Virginia: Geological Society of America Bull. v. 109, no. 5, p. 524-532.


Climatic Control on Fluvial Histories


Link to GEO 621 Class Description:
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/GEO_621_Description.html


Field opportunities with grad students, etc. will be announced throughout the semester. Kite's Teaching Web Page Address: 
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/teaching.htm

Where to Find Updates of this File: http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Schedule621.html

Revision Date: 18 Nov 2004

Topics Covered in in Previous Classes, but not this year!
Readings for old topics
Regional Human Impacts
Southern Applachian Coal Fields

Messinger, Terence, 2003, Comparisons of storm response in small, unmined and valley-filled watersheds, 1999-2001, Ballard Fork, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Investigations Report 02-4303, 22 p.

Wiley, Jeffrey B., and Brogan, Freddie D., 2003, Comparisons of peak discharges among sites with and without valley fills for the July 8-9, 2001, Flood in the headwaters of Clear Fork, Coal River Basin. Mountaintop Coal-Mining Region, Southern West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-133, 12 p.

Paybins, Katherine S., 2003, Flow origin, drainage area, and hydrologic characteristics for headwater streams in the Mountaintop Coal-Mining Region of Southern West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Investigations Report 02-4300, 22 p.

Flow Duration and Effective Flows

Costa, John, E., and O'Connor, Jim E., 1995, Geomorphically effective floods, in Costa, John E., Miller, Andrew J., Potter, Kenneth W., and Wilcock, Peter R., editors, Natural and anthropogenic influences in fluvial geomorphology (the Wolman volume), American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 89, p. 45-56.

Human Adaptations & Geoarcheology Chapman, Jefferson, Delcourt, Paul A., Cridlebaugh, Patricia A., Shea, Andrea B. and Delcourt, Hazel R., 1982, Man-Land Interaction: 10,000 Years of American Indian Impact on Native Ecosystems in the Lower Little Tennessee River Valley, Eastern Tennessee: Southeastern Archaeology, v. 1, no. 2, p. 115-121. 

Delcourt, Paul A; Delcourt, Hazel R; Cridlebaugh, Patricia A; Chapman, Jefferson , 1986, Holocene ethnobotanical and paleoecological record of human impact on vegetation in the Little Tennessee River valley, Tennessee: Quaternary Research, v. 25, no.3, p. 330-349.

Bettis, E Arthur, III; Hajic, Edwin R.,1995, Landscape development and the location of evidence of Archaic cultures in the Upper Midwest, in Bettis, E. Arthur, III, editor, Archaeological geology of the Archaic period in North America: Geological Society of America Special Paper 297, p. 87-113
Geoarcheology of Colluvium and Rock Shelters Donahue, Jack; Adovasio, James M., 1990, Evolution of sandstone rockshelters in eastern North America; a geoarchaeological perspective in Lasca, Norman P; Donahue, Jack, editors, Archaeological geology of North America, Geolological Society of America Decade of North American Geology Centennial special volume 4, Boulder, CO., p. 231-251.

Wiant, Michael D., Hajic, Edwin R; Styles, Bonnie W, and Styles, Thomas R., 1986, Geology and archaeology of a Holocene alluvial/colluvial fan at the Koster Site in Graham, Russell W; Styles, Bonnie W; Saunders, Jeffrey J; Wiant, Michael D; McKay, E Donald; Styles, Thomas R; Hajic, Edwin R., editors, Quaternary records of southwestern Illinois and adjacent Missouri: Illinois State Geol. Surv., Champaign, IL, p. 98-111.

Research Design
Hurlbert, Stuart H., 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments: Ecological Monogrraphs, v. 54 p.187-211.http://evolution.unibe.ch/teaching/ExpDesign/Hurlbert_EcMonogr1984.pdf  or  http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hurlbert1984EcMonogrPsuedoReplication.pdf

Heffner,  Robert A.,  Butler, Mark J., IV, and Reilly,Colleen Keelan, 1996, Pseudoreplication revisited
Ecology,  (Dec),  http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2120/is_n8_v77/ai_19175832/pg_1
Tectonic Fluvial Geomorphology
Hovius, Niels; Stark, Colin P; Chu, Hao-Tsu; Lin, Jiun-Chuan, 2000, Supply and removal of sediment in a landslide-dominated mountain belt; Central Range, Taiwan, Journal of Geology, v. 108, no.1, p. 73-89.


Cheat Canyon Raft Trip
(if water levels allow)
GORP, undated, Destinations, Rollicking Rivers of the Virginias, The Cheat Canyon (web site) http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/menasha/padshe5.htm

Nealy, William, 1997, Kayak: the animated manual of intermediate and advance whitewater technique: Birmingham, AL, Menasha Ridge Press, 190 p. (ISBN: 0897320506) read  p. 19-57, 110-125.
Climate and Fluvial Landscape Evolution
Gabet, Emmanuel J., Pratt-Sitaula, Beth A. , and Burbank, Douglas W., 2004,  Climatic controls on hillslope angle and relief in the Himalayas Climate and Paleohydrology: Geology (Boulder), v.32, no.7, p.629-632.

Vandenberghe, J., 2003, Climate forcing of fluvial system development; an evolution of ideas: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 22, no. 20, p. 2053-2060.
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Vandenberghe2003.pdf

Global Sediment Flux
Milliman, John D., and Meade, Robert H., 1983, World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans: Journal of Geology; v. 91, no. 1, p. 1-2
Flood Frequency
Great Appalachian Floods: Buffalo Creek 1972; Potomac-Cheat basins 1985 Briggs, Peter, 1973, What happened on Buffalo Creek: in Briggs, Peter, Rampage, the story of disastrous floods, broken dams, and human fallibility: New York, David McKay Company, Inc. p. 1-18.

Davies, W.E., Bailey, J.F., and Donovan, B.K., 1972, West Virginia's Buffalo Creek Flood: a study of the hydrology and engineering geology: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 667, 32 p. 

Skim the following, especially the photographs:

Teets, Bob, and Young, Shelby, 1985, Killing waters: the great West Virginia Flood of 1985, Terra Alta, W. Va., Cheat River Publishing, 112 p. 

Colluvium Clark, G. Michael, and Ciolkosz, Edward, 1988, Periglacial Geomorphology of the Appalachian Highlands and Interior Highlands South of the Glacial Border-A Review: Geomorphology, v. 1, p. 191-220.

Ciolkosz, Edward J., Carter, Brian J., Hoover, Michael T., Cronce, Richard C., Waltman, William J., and Dobos, Robert R., 1990, Genesis of soils and landscapes in the Ridge and Valley province of central Pennsylvania: Geomorphology, v. 3., p. 245-261.

Braun, Duane D., 1994, The ubiquitous boulder colluvium of eastern Pennsylvania, a relict of periglacial mobilization of the entire land surface, in Braun, Duane D., Ciolkosz, Edward J., Inners, Jon D., Epstein, Jack B., Clark, G. Michael, Sasowsky, Ira D., Koberle, Robin, editors, Late Wisconsinan to pre-Illinoian(G?) glacial and periglacial events in eastern Pennsylvania (guidebook for the 57th field conference, Friends of the Pleistocene Northeastern Section, May 20-22, 1994, Hazleton, Pennsylvania), U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 94-0434, p. 34-36.

others readings not assigned: 
Hoover, Michael T., and Ciolkosz, Edward J., 1988, Colluvial soil parent material relationships in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of Pennsylvania: Soil Science, v. 145, no. 3, p. 163-172.

Gardner, Thomas W., Ritter, John B., Shuman, Christopher A., Bell, James C., Sasowsky, Kathryn C., and Pinter, Nicholas, 1991, A periglacial stratified slope deposit in the Valley and Ridge province of central Pennsylvania, USA: sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geomorphic evolution: Permafrost and Periglacial Process, v. 2, p. 141-162.

Karst Geomorphology

Palmer, Arthur N., 1991, Origin and morphology of limestone caves: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 1-21.


New River Geomorphology

Mills, Hugh H., 1990, Geologic and topographic controls on the rapids of the New River Gorge, West Virginia: Southeastern Geology, v. 31, no. 1, p. 45-62.

Moore, Dawn A., 1999, The Origins of Rapids in the Lower New River Gorge, West Virginia (M.S. thesis): Morgantown, West Virginia University, 60 p.
http://157.182.199.25/etd/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=998

Sedimentary Systems
Walker, Roger G., and Cant, Douglas J., 1979, Facies Model 3. Sandy Fluvial Systems, in Walker, Roger G., ed., Facies Models: Geotext 1, Geological Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, p. 23-31.
Alluvial Islands
Osterkamp W. R., , 1998, Processes of fluvial island formation, with examples from Plum Creek, Colorado and Snake River, Idaho, Wetlands, v. 18, no. 4, p. 530-545.
Alluvial Fans Kochel, R. C., and Johnson, R. A., 1984, Geomorphology and sedimentology of humid-temperate alluvial fans, central Virginia, in Koster, E. H., and Steel, R. J., editors, Sedimentology of gravels and conglomerates, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 10, p. 109-122. 

Mills, Hugh H., and Allison, John B., 1995, Weathering and soil development on fan surfaces as a function of height above modern drainageways, Roan Mountain, North Carolina, Geomorphology, v. 14, p. 1-17.

others readings not assigned:
Mills, Hugh H., and Allison, John B., 1995, Controls on the variation of fan-surface age in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Haywood County, North Carolina, Physical Geography, v. 15, p. 465-480.
Mills, Hugh H., and Alison, John B., 1995, Weathering rinds and the evolution of Piedmont slopes in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, The Journal of Geology, v. 103, p. 379-394.

Politics of Flood Control

Smith, R. M., 1975, The Politics of Pittsburgh Flood Control, 1908-1936: Pennsylvania History, v. XLII, no. 1, p. 5-24.

Smith, R. M., 1977, The Politics of Pittsburgh Flood Control, 1936-1960: Pennsylvania History, v. XLIV, no. 1, p. 3-24.

Meadowcroft Rock Shelter Field Trip, Western PA,led by Allan Quin, Mercyhurst College; + Ohio River Outwash Terraces (as daylight allows) return ~8:30 p.m. Donahue, Jack; Adovasio, James M., 1990 

others readings not assigned:
Adovasio, J.M., Donahue, J., Guilday, J.E., Stuckenrath, R., Gunn, J.D., and Johnson, W.C., 1983, Meadowcroft Rock Shelter and the peopling of the New World, in Masters, P.M., and Fleming, N.C., eds., Quaternary coastlines and marine archeology: New York, Academic Press, p. 413-440.
Adovasio, James M., and Carlisle, Ronald C., 1988, The Meadowcroft Rockshelter: Science, v. 239, p. 713-714.

Radiocarbon dating methods
Stuckenrath, R., 1977, Radiocarbon: some notes from Merlin's diary, in Newman, W., and Salwen, B., editors, Amerinds and their paleoenvironments in northeastern North America: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 288, p. 181-188.
Radiocarbon-Related Information Sources: Active Radiocarbon Labs & Lab Codes, http://www.radiocarbon.org/Info/index.html Guidebook:

Anonymous,
1996, Radiokohlenstoff-Methode: Der Tod startet die Stoppuhr (Radiocarbon Dating Method: Death starts the stop-watch), WebMuseen, URL http://webmuseen.de/14C.html

Higham, Tom, 1999, Waikato Radiocarbon Laboratory from the site to the lab, URL: www.c14dating.com/

The whole site is worthwhile, but especially these sections: 
The Method: http://www.c14dating.com/int.html
Liquid Scintillation Counting (LSC): http://www.c14dating.com/lsc.html
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS): http://www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk/orau/01_03.htm
Age Calculation: http://www.c14dating.com/agecalc.html
Corrections: http://www.c14dating.com/corr.html
Calibration: http://www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk/orau/01_04.htm
"Global" Human Impacts
Hooke, Roger LeB., 1994, On the efficacy of humans as geomorphic agents: GSA Today, v. 4, no. 9, p. 217, 224-225. 
Go to http://ereserves.lib.wvu.edu/ log in with account name "Kite" and password "321"
Click on  "GEOG 321" and then click on  "hooke_1994.pdf"  or
http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hooke1994.pdf

Hooke, Roger LeB., 2000, On the history of humans as geomorphic agents: Geology, v. 28, no. 9, p. 843-846. http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kite/Hooke2000.pdf

Link to:
GEO 621 Class Description