EP009
Deciphering the Stratigraphic Record of Surface Processes: New Insights into Ancient Landscape Dynamics on Earth and other Planetary Bodies

Session ID#: 156843

Session Description:
Surface process systems include rivers, alluvial fans, dune fields, and more. These systems are sensitive to external forcing, such as tectonic and climatic conditions, and internal forcing, such as avulsion and migration. In principle, stratigraphy provides a record of past surface processes, and deciphering this record is therefore crucial to: (1) characterize the dynamics and environments of ancient landscapes; (2) understand the movement of water and sediment across planetary surfaces; and (3) quantify the response of ancient landscapes to tectonic and climatic change. However, interpreting this record can be challenging (e.g., outcrop/data/timescale limitations). This session welcomes contributions that focus on deciphering, or advancing our ability to decipher, surface processes from the stratigraphic record, and which span surface process systems on Earth and other planetary bodies. We particularly encourage contributions that tackle this challenge using multi-disciplinary approaches, including fieldwork (in modern and/or ancient systems), satellite observations, experimental work, and numerical models.
Index Terms:

1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]


Primary Convener:  Sinead Lyster, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, United States
Conveners:  Victoria Milanez Fernandes1, Kartikeya Singh Sangwan2 and Alexander C Whittaker2, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany(2)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Student/Early Career Convener:  Safiya Alpheus, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, United States
 
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Charles Shobe1, Jean Braun2, Xiaoping Yuan3, Benjamin Campforts4, Boris Gailleton2, Guillaume Baby5, Francois Guillocheau6 and Cecile Robin6, (1)West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, (5)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, (6)Université de Rennes, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France
 
Quantifying Paleolandscape Evolution of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation Using Detrital-Zircon U-Pb Geochronology (1049706)
Nicholas Ferry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States and Michael D Blum, The University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
 
Establishing a Robust Framework of Signal Shredding and Signal Detection Using a Physical Avalanching Rice Pile (1057994)
Chloe Griffin1, Robert A Duller1, Jonathan E Higham1 and Kyle M Straub2, (1)University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States
 
How stratigraphic data and models quantify Holocene – present suspended sediment budgets of mid-Atlantic U.S. river corridors (1059870)
James Eugene Pizzuto, University of Delaware, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Newark, United States
 
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Benjamin Thomas Cardenas, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, John P Grotzinger, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael P. Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, Kevin W Lewis, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States, Christopher Fedo, University of Tennessee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, Alexander B Bryk, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Nathaniel Stein, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Madison Leigh Turner, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Gwénaël Caravaca, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France
 
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Andrew Gunn, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia and Ryan Ewing, Texas A&M, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, United States
 
Climate Controlled Fluvial Stratigraphic Architecture in the Middle Eocene Escanilla Formation, South-Central Pyrenees, Spain (1073087)
Nikhil Sharma1, Alexander C Whittaker2, Stephen Watkins1, Luis Valero1, Jean Vérité3, Cai Puigdefabregas4, Thierry Adatte5, Miguel Garces6, Francois Guillocheau7 and Sebastien Castelltort1, (1)University of Geneva, Department of Earth Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland, (2)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (3)Université du Maine LPG - Le Mans, Bât. Sciences Naturelles UFR Sciences et Techniques, Le Mans cedex 9, France, (4)University of Barcelona, Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i l’Oceà, Barcelona, Spain, (5)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland, (6)Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i l’Oceà, Barcelona, Spain, (7)Université de Rennes, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France
 
A Depositional Model for Meandering Rivers in Unvegetated Arid Basins (1073711)
Michael Hasson1, Michael Marvin1, Andrew Gunn1,2, Alessandro Ielpi3 and Mathieu Gaetan Andre Lapotre1, (1)Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, United States, (2)Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (3)Laurentian University, Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Sudbury, ON, Canada
 
The potential to extract signatures of ancient landscape evolution from the deep-time sedimentary records: Insights from source-to-sink modeling (1076054)
Larry Syu-Heng Lai1, Alison R Duvall2, Charles Shobe3, Rebecca J Dorsey1 and Josh J Roering1, (1)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Alluvial fan sensitivity to fluctuating water and sediment supply (Invited) (1077437)
Anya Leenman, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Brett C Eaton, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Geomorphic Effects of Floods – Integrating Ancient, Modern and Experimental Data (1081097)
Piret Plink-Bjorklund, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Mark R Hansford, Shell Houston, Houston, CO, United States, Haipeng Li, International Union of Geological Sciences, Deep-time Digital Earth Research Center of Excellence (Suzhou), Kunshan, Jiangsu, China and Kenya Ono, INPEX Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
 
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S. Tuhi1,2, Harish H3, K.B. Kimi4, K.S. Sharini1, R.K.S. Priya1 and Vijayan S4, (1)College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India, Chennai, India, (2)Department of Geosciences, Auburn University, Auburn AL, USA, Auburn, United States, (3)Space and Planetary Science Center, and Department of Earth Science, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (4)Planetary Sciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, Ahmedabad, India
 
Controls on Fluvial Bar Preservation in Braided Rivers (1090157)
Safiya Alpheus, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, United States and Elizabeth A Hajek, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Proterozoic Point Bars: Geological Evidence for 1.2 Ga Deep, Meandering Rivers, Clachtoll Formation, Stoer Group, NW Scotland (1090934)
Jeffery Michael Valenza, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, Alexander C Whittaker, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, Amanda Wild, University of Victoria, Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada and Jonah S McLeod, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
 
Can Modern Meander Belts Inform Fluvial Biogeochemical Fluxes in Deep Time? A Geomorphological Perspective on Merits and Pitfalls (Invited) (1090951)
Alessandro Ielpi, Laurentian University, Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Sudbury, ON, Canada
 
Reconstructing River Dynamics across the Eocene-Oligocene Greenhouse to Icehouse Transition in North America (1094570)
David B. Luffman1, Anjali M Fernandes2, Queenie Chang3, Sarah E. Heithaus1, Mia Rhodes1, Madelyn A Kurtz1, Michael T Hren4, Virginia B Smith5 and Dennis O Terry6, (1)Denison University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Granville, United States, (2)Denison University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Granville, OH, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Department of Geosciences, Storrs, United States, (4)University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Groton, United States, (5)Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States, (6)Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, United States
 
Geomorphic Changes in Slope, Grain-Size Transition, and Margin of Alluvial Fans (1103295)
Hyojae Lee1, Wonsuck Kim2, Haein Shin1, Duhwan Keum2 and Yunhyeong Lee2, (1)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Channel Width in an Alluvial Fan: Tank Experiment (1107977)
Haein Shin1, Wonsuck Kim2 and Hyojae Lee1, (1)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Experimental Shelf-Edge Delta and Slope Fan Development (1109137)
JAMES Lopez, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States and Kyle M Straub, Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States
 
An integrated analysis of the timing and impacts of arroyo formation and deposition in a wet meadow system in the New Mexico Rocky Mountains (1111492)
Seth Alexander Mangini, Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT, United States and Jean Dixon, Montana State University, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
 
Constraining the Intermittency of Flow and Sediment Transport in the Geological Past (1118306)
Sinead Lyster1,2, Alexander C Whittaker3, Alexander Farnsworth4, Gary Hampson3, Safiya Alpheus1 and Elizabeth A Hajek5, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, United States, (2)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bristol, BRIDGE, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Sediment Provenance and Encoding of Geomorphic Processes in a Pleistocene Fan-Delta Driven by Periodic Exogenic Forcings (1119844)
Francesco Pavano1, Frank J Pazzaglia1, Laurent O. Roberge2, Nicole M. Gasparini2, Tammy M Rittenour3 and Natalie Tanski3, (1)Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (2)Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States
 
Extremely Widespread Beds Generated in a Low-Gradient, Flood-Dominated Coastal Plain (mid-Triassic Moenkopi Formation, SW Utah and NW Arizona, USA) (1123430)
Samuel Andrade Abdala1, Ronald Nalin2, Leonard R. Brand1 and Arthur V. Chadwick3, (1)Loma Linda University, Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda, United States, (2)Geoscience Research Institute, Loma Linda, United States, (3)Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, United States
 
Rapid Channel Aggradation on Mars: Evidence for Rapid Megaflood-Triggered Base-Level Rise (1126000)
Joshua Ahmed, University of Hull, Energy and Environment Institute, Hull, HU6, United Kingdom, Jeffrey Peakall, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Matthew R Balme, The Open University, School of Physical Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom and Daniel R Parsons, University of Hull, Energy & Environment Institute, Hull, United Kingdom
 
Experimental investigation of channel sand body arrangement in a coupled delta and wetland system (1131113)
Jose Silvestre1, Kelly Marie Sanks1, Samuel Mason Zapp2, John Shaw3, Ripul Dutt4 and Kyle M Straub5, (1)Tulane University, New Orleans, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States, (3)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (4)Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States, (5)Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States
 
Chronostratigraphic Data Reveals Formative Processes in Mid-Atlantic River Corridors: Evidence from the White Clay Creek, PA (1134143)
Max Everett Huffman, University of Delaware, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, James Eugene Pizzuto, University of Delaware, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Newark, United States, Harrison J Gray, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States and Shannon Mahan, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States
 
Exploring Signal Shredding by Landslides and Fluvial Processes in a Dynamic Numerically Modeled Steady State Landscape (1138664)
Laurent O. Roberge1, Nicole M. Gasparini1, Kyle M Straub1, Benjamin Campforts2 and Frank J Pazzaglia3, (1)Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, (3)Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
 
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Chenliang Wu1, Wonsuck Kim1, Junsung Kwon1, Sojung Jung2, Minsik Kim1, Duhwan Keum1, Kyoungwon Ha1, Jiyoung Lee1, Yunhyeong Lee1, Jaehyung Lee1, Dayoung Jung1 and Byongsuk Chun1, (1)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Korea University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Interpreting coastal channel dynamics at Aeolis Dorsa, Mars with implications for hydrodynamic reconstructions (1155993)
Cory M. Hughes and John Shaw, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
 
Pebble roundness as a tool to reconstruct transport distances – insights from modern and ancient Himalayan rivers (1160066)
Prakash Pokhrel, Mikael Attal, Hugh Denny Sinclair and Simon M Mudd, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
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Zhicai Zhu1,2, Yongqing Liu1, Hongwei Kuang1, Andrew J. Newell3, Nan Peng1 and Michael J. Benton2, (1)Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Wallingford, United Kingdom
 
Quantitative Constraints on Paleohydrology and Flood Variability in Ancient Rivers (1167286)
Alexander C Whittaker1, Jonah S McLeod1, James Wood1 and Sinead Lyster2, (1)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
 
Source-to-sink Modeling of Environmental Impacts on Stratigraphic Development (1174198)
Alannah Linden1, Xuesong Ding1,2 and Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
 
A Decade of Mineralogical Discoveries in Gale Crater, Mars from the CheMin XRD Instrument. (1174270)
Valerie Tu1, Elizabeth B Rampe2, Thomas Bristow3, Michael Thorpe2, David Frederick Blake4, David Vaniman5, Richard V Morris2, Douglas W Ming2, Albert Yen6, Cherie Achilles7, Nicholas Castle8, Shaunna M Morrison9, Gordon W Downs10, Robert T Downs11, Robert Hazen9, Patricia Craig12, David Des Marais13, Allan H Treiman14, Steve Chipera8, Tanya Peretyazhko15, Sarah Simpson16 and Michael Wilson17, (1)Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (9)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (10)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (11)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (13)NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, United States, (14)Lunar & Planetary Inst, Houston, TX, United States, (15)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (16)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (17)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
 
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Julian Janocha, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of geosciences, Tromsø, Norway and Aleksandra Smyrak-Sikora, The University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway; University Center on Svalbard, Department of Arctic Geology, Longyearbyen, Norway