Itinerary

Day 1, Friday = Professor Valley area:

stop 1 = start of FOP trip at Lower Onion Creek campground

stop 2 = Dewey Bridge, Colorado River terraces, OSL geochronology, incision rates

stop 3 = Onion Creek diapir and Fisher Valley, Pleistocene salt tectonics reorganizes drainages, or?

stop 4 = Cache Valley graben hike to overview of salt tectonics and discussion of what Colorado River terraces record

Day 2, Saturday = downstream of Moab:

stop 5 = hike to Corona Arch, Paul Geimer seismic resonance of arches

stop 6 = scramble to overview of Potash and Jackson Rincon terraces, abandonment of a bedrock meander, pattern of regional incision

stop 7 = faulting and subsidence in the city of Moab, 7a: bowling alley gravels at mouth of Mill Creek; 7b: Old City Park fault scarp; 7c: newly recognized basin fill at Dirt Track Gully; 7d: Emily Kleber Utah Geological Survey hazards study for Moab City

Day 3, Sunday (half day) = Spanish Valley:

stop 8 = Takeout Beach, upstream of Moab, John Weisheit, Colorado River paleoflood research

stop 9 = Johnson's Ridge capstone, transient landscape evolution, Alan Hidy CRN burial ages, and Pete Reiners, Stuart Thomson new regional thermochronology