Readings and Assignments, Geog 607, Winter, 2009
Schedule and Reading List
(readings should for the week they are assigned - e.g. you should have read the week 2 reading BEFORE class in week 2)
Week 1 (Jan 9) - Overview of Class, Discussion of complexity
No readings
Week 2 (Jan 16) – Broad historic and regional context: Landscape Evolution
(links take you to the readings)
Davis, William M., 1899. The Geographical Cycle. The Geographical Journal 14(5): 481-504.
Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1877. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains. USGS. U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 160 pages.
Roering, Josh, 2008, A brief summary of Oregon Coast Range geology, geomorphology, tectonics, and climate. Unpublished class handout - with Permission from J. Roering (photo from http://www.uoregon.edu/~jroering/jroering.htm )
Week 3 (Jan 23): Interaction of Tectonics, Geomorphic Processes & Regional Topography
Almond, P., Roering J.J. and Hales, T.C., 2007. Using soil residence time to delineate spatial and temporal patterns of landscape disequilibrium. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 112: F03S17, doi:10.1029/2006JF000568.
Kelsey, H.M., Engebretson, D.C., Mitchell, C.E. and Ticknor, R.L., 1994. Topographic form of the Coast Ranges of the Cascadia margin in relation to coastal uplift rates and plate subduction. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99: 12,245-12,255.
Personius, S.F., 1995. Late Quaternary stream incision and uplift in the forearc of the Cascadia subduction zone, western Oregon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100: 20,193-20,210.
Personius, S.F., Kelsey, H.M. and Grabau, P.C., 1993. Evidence for regional stream aggradation in the Central Oregon Coast Range during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Quaternary Research, 40: 297-308.
Week 4: (Jan 30): Erosion, Transport, and Landscape Evolution
Anderson, S.P., Dietrich, W.E. and Brimhall, G.H., 2002. Weathering profiles, mass-balance analysis, and rates of solute loss: Linkages between weathering and erosion in a small, steep catchment. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114(9): 1143-1158.
Bierman, P., Clapp, E., Nichols, K., Gillespie, A. and Caffee, M., 2001. Using cosmogenic nuclide measurements in sediments to understand background rates of erosion and sediment transport. In: R.S. Harmon and W.W. Doe (Editors), Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling. Kluwer Academic Plenum, New York, pp. 89-115.
Dietrich, W.E., Dunne, T., Humphrey, N.F. and Reid, L.M., 1982. Construction of sediment budgets for drainage basins. In: F.J. Swanson, R.J. Janda, T. Dunne and D.N. Swanston (Editors), Sediment Budgets and Routing in Forested Drainage Basins. USDA, pp. 5-23.
Reneau, S.L. and Dietrich, W.E., 1991. Erosion rates in the Southern Oregon Coast Range: Evidence for an equilibrium between hillslope erosion and sediment yield. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 16(4): 307-322.
Week 5 (Feb 6): Slope evolution & debris flow-driven geomorphology
Roering, J.J., Kirchner, J.W. and Dietrich, W.E., 1999. Evidence for nonlinear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology. Water Resources Research, 35(3): 853-870.
Benda, L.E., 1990. The influence of debris flows on channels and valley floors in the Oregon Coast Range, U.S.A. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 15: 457-466.
Lancaster, Stepehn T. and Grant, Gordon E., 2006. Debris dams and the relief of headwater streams. Geomorphology 82: 84-97.
Stock, J. and Dietrich, W.E., 2003. Valley incision by debris flows: Evidence of a topographic signature. Water Resources Research, 39.
Burnett, Kelly M. and Miller, Daniel J., 2007. Streamside policies for headwater channels: An example considering debris flows I the Oregon Coastal Province. Forest Science 53(2): 239-253.
May, Christine L., 2002. Debris flows through different forest age classes in the central Oregon Coast Range. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 38(4): 1097-1113.
May, Christine L. and Gressell, Robert E., 2004. Spatial and temporal patterns of debris-flow deposition in the Oregon Coast Range, USA. Geomorphology 57:135-149.
Roering, Josh, Schmidt, Kevin M., Stock, Jonathan D., Dietrich, William E. & Montgomery, David R., 2003. Shallow landsliding, root reinforcement, and the spatial distribution of trees in the Oregon Coast Range. Canadian Geotechnical Journal 40: 237-253.
Gomi, Takashi, Sidle, Roy C., and Richardson, John S., 2002. Understanding processes and downstream linkages of headwater systems. BioScience 52(10): 905-916.
Benda ,Lee, Hassan, Marwan A., Church, Michael, and May, Christine L. , 2005. Geomorphology of steep headwaters: The transition from hillslopes to channels. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 835-851.
Lancaster, Stepehn T. and Casebeer, Nathan E., 2007. Sediment storage and evacuation in headwater valleys at the transition between debris-flow and fluvial processes. Geology 35(11): 1027-1030.
Montgomery, D.R. and Dietrich, W.E., 1988. Where do channels begin? Nature, 336(6196): 232-234.
Montgomery, D.R. and Dietrich, W.E., 1992. Channel initiation and the problem of landscape scale. Science, 255(5046): 826-830
Week 8 (Feb 27): Networks, tributaries & rivers
Benda, Lee, Poff, LeRoy, Miller, Daniel, Dunne, Thomas, Reeves, Gordon, and Pollock, Michael, 2004, The Network Dynamics Hypothesis: How channel networks structure riverine habitats. BioScience 54(5): 413-
Torgersen, Christian E., Gresswell, Robert E., Bateman, Douglas S., and Burnett, Kelly M., 2008. Spatial identification of tributary impacts in river networks in Rice, Stephen P., Roy, Andre G. and Rhoads, Bruce L. (ed.), River Confluences, Tributaries and the Fluvial Network. West Sussex, UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., p. 159-181.
Seidl, M.A. and Dietrich, W.E., 1992. The problem of channel erosion into bedrock. Catena Supplement, 23: 101-124.
Rhea, B.S., 1993. Geomorphic observations of rivers in the Oregon coast range from a regional reconnaissance perspective. Geomorphology, 6(2): 135-150.
Week 9 (Mar 6): Wood & rivers
Marston, Richard A., 1982. The geomorphic significance of log steps in forest streams. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 72(1): 99-108.
Nakamura, F. and Swanson, F.J., 1993. Effects of coarse woody debris on morphology and sediment storage of a mountain stream system in western Oregon. Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, 18(1): 43-61
Hassan, Marwan A., Church, Michael, Lisle, Thomas E., Brardinoni, Francesco, Benda, Lee, and Grant, Gordon, E., 2005. Sediment transport and channel morphology of small forested streams. Jouranl fothe Ameroican Water Reources Asociation 41(4):853-876.
Week 10 ( Dec 01) – CLASS FIELD TRIP, SUNDAY, MARCH 8
Read: Field trip handouts
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