{"id":37,"date":"2012-10-18T18:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/eleonard\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2021-05-06T20:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:41:53","slug":"research-tertiary-tectonics-climate-and-erosion-southern-rocky-mountains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/eleonard\/research-tertiary-tectonics-climate-and-erosion-southern-rocky-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Tertiary tectonics, climate, and erosion, southern Rocky Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">This study involves examination of the geomorphic evolution of the Colorado Front Range and Piedmont and investigates the roles of tectonics, climate, end erosionally-driven isostasy in the Tertiary and Quaternary development of the landscape. The project involves GIS analysis of topography and stream systems and low\u2013temperature thermochronology, as well as, field mapping.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/eleonard\/files\/2012\/10\/ph_eric_leonard_Esurface.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/eleonard\/files\/2012\/10\/ph_eric_leonard_Esurface-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/eleonard\/files\/2012\/10\/ph_eric_leonard_Esurface-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/eleonard\/files\/2012\/10\/ph_eric_leonard_Esurface.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pike Peak standing above late Eocene (?) low-relief Rocky Mountain surface of the southern Colorado Front Range (courtesy of Christine McCluskey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>( * denotes Colorado College student co-author)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Leonard, E.M., 2002, Geomorphic and tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic warping of the Colorado Piedmont: Geology 34, 595-598.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Leonard, E.M. Hubbard, M.S., Kelley, S.S., Evanoff, E., Siddoway, C.S., Oviatt, C.G., Heizler, M., and Timmons, M., 2002, High plains to Rio Grande Rift: Late Cenozoic evolution of central Colorado; Guidebook for Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 1-35.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Leonard, E.M., and Langford, R.P., 1994, Post-Laramide deformation along the eastern margin of the Colorado Front Range &#8211; a case against significant faulting: Mountain Geologist 31, 45-52.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Abstracts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leonard, E. M., McMillan, M.E., Ouimet, W.B., 2013, The post-orogenic Rocky Mountain Surface on the front ranges of Colorado, USA \u2013 its character and possible causes of its deformation. International Association of Geomorphologists, 8<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference Abstracts, Paris.<\/li>\n<li>Miller, S., Sak, P.B., and Leonard, E.M., 2010: Stream speed bumps: how competent bedrock units stall and multiply transient knickpoints: <em>Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs<\/em> 42.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">*Nelson, A.D., Wobus, C., Leonard, E., 2006, Stream response to base-level change along the Rocky Mountain front in Colorado and Wyoming, <em>Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs<\/em> v. 38, 26.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Sak, P.B., Leonard, E.M., Miller, S.R., Biscontini, A.J., and *Jemison, E., 2005, Late Cenozoic Drainage Reorganization Of The Arkansas River, Central Colorado, and History of the Royal Gorge: <em>Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs<\/em> v. 37, 295.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Leonard, E., 2005, Evaluating tectonic rock uplift and erosion-uplift feedback, western Great Plains, United States: Geophysical Research Letters, 7, 08887.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Leonard, E.M., and Sak, P., 2005, The late Cenozoic evolution of the enigmatic upper Arkansas River, Colorado: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 37, 16.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Leonard, E.M., 2003, Evaluating rock uplift-erosion feedback: a case study of the western Great Plains, USA: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 345, 297.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study involves examination of the geomorphic evolution of the Colorado Front Range and Piedmont and investigates the roles of tectonics, climate, end erosionally-driven isostasy in the Tertiary and Quaternary development of the landscape. 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