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The Association Upcoming Meetings:
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CAVEPS and Quaternary Extinction Symposium CANQUA June 5-8, 2005 2nd
International Congress
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Friends of the Pleistocene Trips October 9-11, 1998 Lead by a cast of thousands. Topics include soils and
stratigraphy, advances in dating Quaternary deposits and surfaces, the influence of
climate change on eolian, fluvial, and hillslope processes, and the characteristics of
long-recurrence Great Basin faults. Van transportation will be provided for the first day
on the east side of Yucca Mountain. Visit the Yucca Mountain FOP web site: http://chroma.
cr.usgs.gov for more details and to begin the registration process. Contact: John Whitney
or Emily Taylor, USGS MS 425, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225; Larry Anderson or Ralph
Klinger, USBR Box 25007, D-8330, Denver, CO 80225; rklinger@do.usbr.gov September 19-20, 1998 Leaders are Scott Burns (Portland State University) and
Jim O'Connor (USGS, Portland). Highlights include: both new and old (reinterpreted) sites
in the valley; rhythmites in Portland, Dayton, Corvallis, and Irish Bend; quarries in
Salem and Eugene with lahars that have come from the High Cascades all of the way to the
valley floor; new chemical signatures used to tell Missoula Flood sequences; many new ages
of deposits. Meet on September 18th in the group camping area of Champoeg State
Park, located near Donald, Oregon, about 20 miles south of Portland. We will be camping
there for Friday and Saturday nights. Cost will be about $20, which will include camping,
guidebook and refreshments. Mailings will be sent out about June 10th with
additional information. A web site for the trip will be set up in mid-June (see link
though: http://www.geol.pdx.edu/). Contact: Scott Burns, Department of Geology, Portland
State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Oregon 97207; 503-725-3389; fax: -3025;
burnss@pdx.edu
Bruce Harrison, Fred Phillips, Dave Love, Alan Gellis,
Dennis McMahon, Missy Eppes and others will lead the 1998 Rocky Mountain FOP field
conference around Socorro on the second weekend of September. We will begin with a
discussion of recent work on the lower Rio Puerco by the USGS and the New Mexico Bureau of
Mines. The rest of the day will be on the Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge looking at tectonic
controls on landforms and climatic controls on soil and vegetation distribution in
different landscapes. We will discuss monitoring climate variation by soil development,
carbon and oxygen isotopes of pedogenic carbonates, vegetation distribution, and
electromagnetic surveys of soil moisture. The following day will focus on the tectonic
geomorphology of the La Jencia and Socorro Canyon faults, and the use of different dating
techniques, soil development, scarp morphology, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)
and Chlorine 36 and geophysical techniques (GPR shallow seismic, etc) for determining the
segmentation and activity of these fault systems. We will also discuss a probabilistic
seismic hazard analysis of these two fault systems. An optional pre-meeting half day field
trip is planned to look at recent work on the Almagordo Fault by Dan Koning and Frank
Pazzaglia. Contact: J.B.J. Harrison, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, New
Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, 87801; 505-835-5864 Spring, 1999 Brian Carter and Phil Ward III, Oklahoma State University, will lead the next south-central FOP field trip. The trip will highlight Pleistocene river terraces, archeological sites, and soils of the Arkansas River valley. Contact: Brian Carter, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, 160 Agriculture Hall, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078; 405-744-6414; BJC@ soilwater.ajr.okstate.edu 1998 Field Trip On April 4-5, 1998, Baylor Geology Department, and Geology
Department Advisory Council, held a field trip for the FOP South-Central Cell and
ex-students and friends of Baylor Geology. The trip, entitled "Geography and Geology
of the Grand and Black Prairies of Texas: Lands, History, Culture", was to an area of
long interest to Baylor Geology, and of increasing interest in the geological profession.
The area is described in considerable detail in a 230-page guidebook. Extra copies of the
field trip guide are available for $12 from: O.T. Hayward, Geology Department, Baylor
University, Waco, TX 76798-7354. There were 85 participants from nine states. Field Trip
Leaders included Peter Allen (Baylor University), David Amsbury (N A S A); Paul Dolliver
(Geomap Company, Dallas), O.T. Hayward (Ret., Baylor University), Lee Nordt (Baylor
University), and Joe Yelderman (Baylor University). November 13-15, 1998 The 10th Field Conference will focus on fan deposits and the geomorphic development of mountain footslopes in selected areas of the Blue Ridge province, northwestern North Carolina and adjacent Tennessee. Emphasis will be on the weathering and form of fans ranging in age from late Holocene to early Pleistocene; implications for environmental geology will be illustrated by a case study. Leaders: Hugh Mills, Ellen Cowan, Keith Seramur, and others. Contact: Hugh Mills; 931-372-3521; fax: -3363; hmills@tntech.edu |