January
6th: Introduction to alluvial fans and pediments
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Processes
and Forms of Alluvial Fans, Blair and McPherson, Chapter 14 in Geomorphology
of Desert Environments.
Controls on alluvial fans long profile
(Stock et al., 2007)
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January
13th: Fan Entrenchment and Climate Change
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Holocene hydrological changes
inferred from alluvial stream entrenchment in North Tian Shan, (Poisson and
Avouac, 2004).
Nicholas
and Quine, Modeling alluvial landform change in the absence of external
environmental forcing, 2007
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January
20th: Experiments
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Channel
Dynamics, Sediment Transport, and the Slope of Alluvial Fans: Experimental
Study (Whipple
et al., 1998)
Autocyclic
behaviour of fan deltas: an analogue experimental study (Van Dijk Maurits et
al., 2009)
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January
27th: Theory
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Alluvial fans formed by channelized
fluvial and sheet flow. I: Theory (Parker et al., 1998)
Fluvial fan deltas: Linking channel
processes with large-scale morphodynamics (Sun et al., 2002)
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February
3rd: �Tectonic Coupling
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Natural
oscillations in coupled geomorphic systems: An alternative origin for cyclic
sedimentation (Humphrey
& Heller, 1995)
How does alluvial sedimentation at
range fronts modify the erosion dynamics of mountain catchments, (Carretier
and Lucazeau, 2005).
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Feb.
10th: Tectonic Coupling
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Development
and response of a coupled catchment fan system under changing tectonic and
climatic forcing (Densmore
et al., 2007)
Pepin et al., Erosion dynamics modeling in a
coupled catchment-fan system with constant external forcing, Geomorphology,
2010.
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Feb.
17th: Debris flow fans
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Dynamic controls on erosion and
deposition on debris-flow fans, (Schurch et al., 2011).
The influence of debris-flow rheology
on fan morphology, Owens valley, California (Whipple and Dunne, 1992).
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Feb.
24th: No Class
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Pediments
in Arid Environments, Parsons and Dohrenwend, Chapter 13 of Geomorphology of
desert environments
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March
2nd: Pediments
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Oberlander, T. M., 1974, Landscape
inheritance and the pediment problem in the Mojave desert of Southern
California, American Journal of Science, v. 274, p. 849-875.
Nichols, et al. (2005).
"Cosmogenically enabled sediment budgeting." Geology; v. 33; no. 2;
p. 133 136; doi: 10.1130/G21006.1.
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March
9th: Pediments
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How
do pediments form?: A numerical modeling investigation with comparison to
pediments in southern Arizona (Pelletier, 2010).
Strudley,
M. W., and Murray, A. B., 2007, Sensitivity analysis of pediment development
through numerical simulation and selected geospatial query, Geomorphology,
88, p. 329-351, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.12.008.
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