Post-glacial fluvial response and landform development in the upper Muskegon River valley in North-Central Lower Michigan, U.S.A.

Arbogast, Alan F.; Bookout, Juleigh R.; Schrotenboer, Bradley R.; Lansdale, A. L.; Rust, Ginny L.; Bato, Victorino A.

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.06.008

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“…The high plains of Canada, which show clear evidence of post-glacial fluvial incision in the form of canyons and terrace systems (Jackson et al, 1982;Rains and Welch, 1988;Rains et al, 1994;Evans et al, 2004), are on post-cratonic Precambrian crust, which explains the occurrence of such evidence, which has sometimes been attributed to glacioisostatic effects (Bryan et al, 1987;Campbell, 1997;Oetelaar, 2002), but disqualifies the area as a direct analogue for Britain. A similar observation can be made with regard to Michigan, where post-glacial incision below terraces representing MIS 2 deglaciation have been observed on Proterozoic crust flanking the Laurentian craton (Arbogast et al, 2008). On the eastern side of North America, however, the area of the Appalachian Mountains is not just an analogue for Britain's Phanerozoic continental crust: before early Mesozoic Atlantic rifting these two areas were contiguous.…”

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Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

Bridgland

Westaway

2014

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

124

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract: Late Cenozoic (and especially Quaternary) fluvial deposits and related landforms provide valuable information about landscape evolution, not just in terms of changing drainage patterns but also documenting changes in topography and relief. Recently compiled records from river systems worldwide have shed much light on this subject, particularly records of terrace sequences, although other types of fluvial archive can be equally informative. Terraces are especially valuable if they can be dated with reference to biostratigraphy, geochronology or by other means. The various data accumulated support the hypothesis that the incision observed from river terraces has been a response to progressive uplift during the Late Cenozoic. This has not occurred everywhere, however. Stacked fluvial sequences have formed in subsiding depocentres and have greater potential for surviving to become part of the longer-term geological record. More enigmatic are regions in the ancient cores of continents (cratons), which show little indication of sustained uplift or subsidence, with fluvial deposits of various ages occurring within a restricted range of elevation with respect to the valley floor. In areas of dynamic crust that were glaciated during the Last Glacial Maximum post-glacial river valleys are typically incised and often terraced in a similar way to valleys on post-Precambrian crust elsewhere, although the terraces and gorges in these systems are very much younger (~15 ka) and therefore the processes have been considerably more rapid. This paper is illustrated with various case-study examples of these different types of archives and discusses the implications of each for regional landscape evolution.

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Section: Local Patterns: Areas Showing Unusually Rapid Uplift During supporting

confidence: 68%

Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

Bridgland

Westaway

2014

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

124

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“…1). In many ways, the watershed is typical of those found in other low relief, glacially conditioned watersheds previously described in the literature (Campo and Desloges, 1994;Phillips and Robert, 2005;Arbogast et al, 2008;Foster et al, 2009;Belmont, 2011;Vocal-Ferencevic and Ashmore, 2012;Gran et al, 2013 (Ashmore and Church, 2001) -leading to aboveaverage annual floods (Javelle et al, 2003), typically triggered by melting of winter snowpacks. Hydrological data gathered from the Water Survey of Canada gauging station (station ID: 02GD008) located near the river's mouth show that the mean annual flood between 1971 and 2014 is 55 m 3 s -1 (daily mean discharge) and occurs about once in 2 years.…”

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“…4 Partially alluvial channels have beds composed of a mix of alluvium and bedrock (Turowski et al, 2008), indurated Pleistocene sediments (Nittrouer et al, 2011), or finegrained glacial sediments, the latter of which are prevalent in low-relief regions that were covered by continental ice sheets during the last glaciation (Nanson, 1980;Macklin and Lewin, 1986;Croke, 1994;Brooks, 2003;Arbogast et al, 2008;Foster et al, 2009;Gran et al, 2009Gran et al, , 2013Belmont et al, 2011;Day et al, 2013;Phillips and Desloges, 2014).…”

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Floodplain morphology, sedimentology, and development processes of a partially alluvial channel

Thayer

Ashmore

2016

Geomorphology

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“…In contrast, higher lateral channel migration and floodplain construction occurred during a period of warmer-drier climate along the Red River with no intensification of fluvial activity after the shift to a cooler-moister climate (Brooks 2003). In other situations where there apparently was a change in forest composition, periodic flooding may be connected with persistent downcutting (Arbogast et al 2008).…”

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Alluvial stratigraphy and geoarchaeology in the Big Fork River Valley, Minnesota: human response to Late Holocene environmental change

Hill

Rapp

Jing

2011

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The Late Quaternary geomorphology and stratigraphy of the Big Fork River valley, within the Rainy River basin of northern Minnesota, reveals evidence of prehistoric human interaction with late Holocene riverine environments. By 11 000 14C BP, deglaciation made the region inhabitable by human groups using Clovis artefacts. Human habitation would also have been possible during the Moorhead low-water stage of glacial Lake Agassiz, starting at 10 500 14C BP. Near its confluence with the Rainy River, the valley floor of the Big Fork valley consists of a floodplain complex and two terraces. The multi-component stratified Hannaford site is situated within the active floodplain. Overbank deposits contain artefacts in primary context, whereas artefacts within the point bar deposits are in secondary archaeological context; these deposits are associated with changing alluvial settings as the river moved eastward. Aggradation of the valley fill beneath the lowest surface (T0, floodplain complex) began by 3000 years ago and is associated with human activities focused on seasonal fishing and the use of riparian resources from 1300 to 650 14C BP.

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Post-glacial fluvial response and landform development in the upper Muskegon River valley in North-Central Lower Michigan, U.S.A.

Cited by 15 publications

References 57 publications

Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

Floodplain morphology, sedimentology, and development processes of a partially alluvial channel

Alluvial stratigraphy and geoarchaeology in the Big Fork River Valley, Minnesota: human response to Late Holocene environmental change

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