West Coast Transect

Working from northern California to southern Washington, we have sampled dozens of drainages in order to map out the spatial distribution of erosion rates and relate them to landscape-scale parameters including lithology and slope.

Project Support

DOD DEPSCOR- Erosion and Sedimentation Extreme Environments: DAAD19-03-1-0205
Proposal Project Summary (download pdf)

People Working on this Project

Paul Bierman
Matthew Jungers
Jennifer Larsen
Luke Reusser

Theses Related to this Project

Matthew Jungers (2007), MS thesis: Using ¹⁰Be to Determine Sediment Production and Transport Rates on Steep Hillslopes in Varied Tectonic and Climatic Settings
MS thesis (download pdf)

Abstracts Related to this Project

Jungers, M.C., Bierman, P.R., Matmon, A., Nichols, K.K., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R.C., 2007, Accepting our differences: The power of amalgamation and ¹⁰Be as a geomorphic tracer for hillslope soil transport: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, p. 513. (download pdf)

Bierman, P.R., Nichols, K.K., Jungers, M., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R., 2006, More than rates or dates: The power of amalgamation when tracing landscape-scale processes with Be: Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts. (download pdf)

Jungers, M.C., Bierman, P.R., Matmon, A., Cox, R., Pavich, M., Larsen, J., and Finkel, R.C., 2006, Tracking soil transport downslope using in-situ produced ¹⁰Be: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, p. 283. (download pdf)

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