Conclusions of small-scale geomorphology Off road vehicles have lasting affects on desert environment Channels in walkway plots are bimodal and follow.

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Conclusions of small-scale geomorphology Off road vehicles have lasting affects on desert environment Channels in walkway plots are bimodal and follow the orientation of rock alignments and the piedmont’s steepest gradient After 50 years the channels in walkway and road plots have not attained the characteristics of channels in control plots, mainly due to compaction and the rock alignments

Cosmogenic isotopes Tracers as sediment moves down piedmont Tracers at near surface to determine deposition rates Switch from human-induced rates to long-term rates of landscape change

Cosmogenic Isotopes Si O Ca, K, Cl 26 Al, 21 Ne, 3 He 10 Be, 14 C, 3 He 36 Cl, 3 He The isotopes are like a suntan.

Objectives 1. Sediment residence time in low terraces 2. Depositional history of the piedmont 3. Sediment generation rates of source basins 4. Average sediment transport velocities

Three types of cosmogenic isotopes samples Integrated valley samples collected from streams that exit steep narrow basins of the Iron and Granite Mountains Integrated soil profiles from two pits on the Iron Mountain piedmont Integrated transect samples collected at 1 km intervals away from the Iron and Granite Mountain rangefronts

Sampling Map

Valley Sample

Transect Sample

Soil Pit Samples

Sediment generation rates valley data determine mountain mass erosion and sediment generation rates (Bierman and Steig, 1996): Average sediment generation rates are m 3 y -1 m -1 for Iron Mountains and m 3 y -1 m -1 for Granite Mountains.

Predicted depth profiles for stable, erosional, and depositional surfaces

26 Al abundance (10 6 atoms g -1 ) 10 Be abundance (10 5 atoms g -1 ) Pit 1Pit 2

Unconformity Lower nuclide abundances = less dosed sediment Nuclide difference represents a period of time Soil pit 1 10 Be difference represents ~15 ka and 26 Al difference represents ~6 ka

Iron Mountain transect samples

Channels “firehose” across the surface

Incredible Linearity

More linear trendlines!

Three endmember processes 1. Depositional surface 2. Surface of transport 3. Erosional surface

Model Equation Sediment in Sediment out Sediment deposition Sediment erosion

Constraints on piedmont deposition and active layer Deposition rates are not uniform across piedmont (15 m Ma -1 to 40 m Ma -1 ) Deposition rates are not uniform through time (unconformity from ~5 to ~15 ka at soil pit 1) Active layer is well-mixed and thickness (20 to 30 cm) is spatially uniform

Mixed layer or active layer is uniform thickness (20 to 30 cm) as determined from measurement of B-horizon depth measurements of maximum channel depths

Mixed model assumes Pre-unconformity 40 cm ATL 25 m Ma -1 erosion rates deposition of 15 m Ma -1 deposition of 40 m Ma -1 Post-unconformity 30 cm ATL 38 m Ma -1 erosion rates surface of transport deposition of 40 m Ma -1

Mixed Model Velocities are 35 ±  10 cm y -1

Remember First estimates of: Consistent average sediment transport rates Sediment velocities (35 cm y -1 ) Sediment residence times in low terraces (< 1000 years) Big picture using 10 Be and 26 Al: Sediment generation rates and flux of sediment across piedmonts Constrain complex surface histories of piedmonts

Acknowledgements We would like to thank Darrin Santos and Christine Massey for field assistance U.S. Army Research Office for funding this research Ben Copans and Susan Nies for laboratory assistance John Southon and Erik Clapp for AMS assistance