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The Quaternary Times
Newsletter of the American Quaternary Association
Volume 29 Number 1 May 1999

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Pacific Cell
September 24-26, 1999
Northern Quinn River and Alvord valleys, southeastern Oregon
This year's field trip will focus on the late Quaternary faulting and pluvial lake history of the northern Quinn River and Alvord valleys in north-central Nevada and southeastern Oregon. The trip will be coordinated by Charlie Narwold and Bud Burke, Humboldt State University and Silvio Pezzopane, USGS. Trip leaders:
(1) Charlie Narwold, who is completing a master's thesis on carbonate soils and late Quaternary faulting along the Quinn River fault zone.
(2) Silvio Pezzopane, who completed a PhD at the University of Oregon mapping and trenching young faults and continues to research the neotectonics and earthquake hazards of Oregon.
(3) Mark Hemphill-Haley, who conducted MS thesis work and NEHRP research on the late Quaternary activity of the Steens fault zone and pluvial/alluvial stratigraphy of the western margin of the Alvord Valley. He will also present current PhD research related to kinematic and dynamic modeling of the contemporary deformation of the interior of the western US.
(4) Dave Lindberg, a former master's student at HSU, investigated the late Quaternary faulting along the east side of Alvord Valley and the lake record of pluvial Lake Alvord.
(5) Marith Reheis, USGS, who has done reconnaissance work investigating regional pluvial lake records and has found evidence for a catastrophic flood eastward from the Coyote Basin, likely driven by overflow from pluvial Lake Alvord to the west.
(6) A host of contributions from a lot of related research by others.
The trip will begin the morning of September 25th near the town of McDermitt, Nevada situated on the Nevada-Oregon border along US Interstate 95, ~73 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada. The trip will likely end early Sunday afternoon at the northern end of Alvord Valley, north of the town of Fields, Information about the trip is at: http://chroma.cr.usgs.gov which will be periodically updated.
We invite authors who would like to present related short papers to be included in the appendix of the guidebook. Anyone with an appropriate publication or preprint that they would like to have included contact us at: FOP, c/o Geology Department, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521; 707-826 5243; fax: -5241; fop@axe.humboldt.edu

Pacific Northwest Cell
Tentatively: Sept. 18-19, 1999
Lower Columbia River
The trip will focus on the lower Columbia River, essentially from the crest of the Cascades (Stevenson, WA) to Clatskanie, OR (~10 miles upstream from the mouth). The theme of the trip is the interface between geology and archaeological sites. Beginning in the 1970's a number of archaeologists working on the lower Columbia speculated that geological "catastrophes" caused identifiable changes in prehistoric settlement patterns, primarily in the Portland Basin. Although this idea received a great deal of attention in archaeological research and publications, there was a marked lack of input from the geological community. This began changing in the early 1990's as a result of geological hazards research by the USGS. Archaeology provides the missing ingredient. The human response to geological processes will be discussed (and debated, I'm sure) at Chinook Indian villages and resource processing sites near Bonneville Dam, Airport Way in Portland, the lower Columbia Slough, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge and near Clatskanie, Oregon. For geological purists, we'll look at landslides, lahar sequences on the Sandy and Lewis rivers, Bretz floods features just about everywhere and Holocene alluvial landforms and sediments on the largest but least-studied river in the world, the Columbia. The base camp will be at Oxbow Regional Park on the Sandy River ~8 miles from Troutdale, Oregon. Contact: Alex Bourdeau, US Fish and Wildlife Service, 20555 SW Gerda Lane, Sherwood, OR 97140, 503-625-4377; fax: -4887; alex_bourdeau@ fws.gov

Southeast Cell
October 8-10, 1999
Soils and Quaternary Geology of the Big Sandy Valley, West Virginia
Meet at Caveland Lodge, Carter Caves State Resort Park, NE Kentucky. The trip will roughly be along US Route 52 in Wayne County, along the Big Sandy River. Highlights include bedrock-cored terrace straths, lacustrine deposits, alluvial terraces, geoarcheology. Agenda: Friday evening registration and trip orientation; Saturday all-day trip, banquet meal with evening speakers program; and Sunday tour of caves and park geology.
For more information, contact: David Cremeens, GAI Consultants, 570 Beatty Rd., Monroeville, PA 15146; 412-856-6400 x3234; dlcremeens@aol.com or env_engineering@gaiconsultants.com

Rocky Mountain Cell
September 10-12, 1999
Quaternary and Environmental Geology of the Southwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Principal leaders: Mary L. Gillam, consulting geologist; Robert W. Blair, Fort Lewis College; and Stanley E. Church, U.S. Geological Survey. Co-leaders: Scott Elias, INSTAAR; Robert W. Kirkham, Colorado Geological Survey; Thomas Perry, consultant; Fred Phillips, New Mexico Tech; and others.
This trip will address natural processes and deposits in formerly glaciated and unglaciated areas as well migration of heavy metals from mineralized zones. It will focus on the Animas River valley in Colorado and New Mexico but may include other areas if time allows. Tentative themes will be the influence of climatic, tectonic, and bedrock controls on moraine, terrace, and related deposits; dating by radiocarbon, amino-acid, and incision-rate methods; and contaminant movement in alluvium of late Holocene and historic age. Proposed stops will feature moraines, terraces, rock glaciers, landslides, loess, soil development, Lava Creek B ash, heavy-metal contamination, and post-glacial deposits at Lake Emma. A pre-meeting hike to remote sites may be added. For more information, contact Mary L. Gillam, 115 Meadow Road East, Durango, CO 81301, 970-259-0966, gillam@rmii.com or see: http://www.trg tech.com/fop

South-Central Cell
The year 2000 trip will be led by Reid Ferring, University of Northern Texas; Ferring@unt.edu.

The 1999 Field Trip: geomorphology of the Arkansas River valley, eastern Oklahoma was lead last month by Brian Carter and Phil Ward III, Oklahoma State University. Brian reports that the successful trip included lively discussion of, among other topics, the genesis of mounded soils. Field guides are available for $10 from: 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