Michael P. Lamb

Process Geomorphology / Physical Sedimentology

 

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Refereed Publications / Field Guides / Theses

22.  Lamb, M.P., McElroy, B., Kopriva, B., Shaw, J. and Mohrig, D., Dynamics and deposits of hyperpycnal river plumes.  Geological Society of America Bulletin (in review).

21.  Lamb, M.P. and Mohrig, D, Do hyperpycnal plumes record river flood dynamics? Geology (in press).  [PDF]

20.  Lamb, M.P. and Dietrich, W.E., 2009, The persistence of waterfalls in fractured rock. Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B26842.1. [PDF]

19.  Lamb, M.P., 2008, The Formation of Amphitheater-Headed Canyons, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, California, 297 pp.  [PDF]

18.  Lamb, M.P., Dietrich, W.E., Aciego, S.M., DePaolo, S.M., Manga, M., 2008, Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by megaflood: Implications for seepage erosion on Earth and Mars. Science, 320, 1067, doi: 10.1126/science.1156630.  [PDF]

17.  Lamb, M.P., Dietrich, W.E. and Sklar, L.S., 2008, A model for fluvial bedrock incision by impacting suspended and bedload sediment.  Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 113, F03025, doi:10.1029/2007JF000915. [PDF]

16.  Lamb, M.P., Dietrich, W.E., and Venditti, J.G., 2008,  Is the critical Shields stress for incipient sediment motion dependent on channel-bed slope?  Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 113, F02008, doi:10.1029/2007JF000831.  [PDF]

15.  Lamb, M.P., Myrow, P.M., Lukens, C. and Houck, K., 2008, Deposits from wave-influenced turbidity currents: Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation, Colorado, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 78, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2008.052  [PDF]

14.  Myrow, P.M., Lukens, C., Lamb, M.P., Houck, K. and Strauss, J., 2008, Dynamics of a transgressive prodeltaic system: Implications for geography and climate within a Pennsylvanian intracratonic basin, Colorado, USA. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 78, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2008.061. [PDF]

13.  Lamb, M.P., Parsons, J.D., Mullenbach, B.L., Finlayson, D.P., Orange, D. and Nittrouer, C., 2008, Evidence for superelevation, channel incision and formation of cyclic steps by turbidity currents in Eel Canyon, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120, p. 463 – 475, doi: 10.1130/B26184.1. [PDF]

12.  Liang, H., Lamb, M.P. and Parson, J.D., 2007, Formation of a sandy near-bed transport layer from a fine-grained bed under oscillatory flow. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 112, C02008, doi:10.1029/2006JC003635.  [PDF]

11.  Lamb, M.P., Howard, A.D., Dietrich, W.E. and Perron, J.T., 2007, Formation of amphitheater-headed valleys by waterfall erosion after large-scale slumping on Hawaii.  Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, p. 805-822, doi:10.1130/B25986.1.   [PDF]

10.  Aciego, S.M., DePaolo, D.J., Kennedy, B.M., Lamb, M.P., Sims, K. and Dietrich, W.E., 2007, Combining [3He] cosmogenic dating with U-Th/He eruption ages using olivine in basalt.  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.039.  [PDF]

9.  Toniolo, H., Lamb, M.P. and Parker, G., 2006, Depositional turbidity currents in diapiric minibasins on the continental slope: formulation and theory.  Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76, doi: 10.2110/jsr.2006.071. [PDF]

8.  Perron, T., Lamb, M.P., Koven, C.D., Fung, I.Y., Yager, E., Adamkovics, M., 2006, Valley formation and methane precipitation rates on Titan.  Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, Vol. 111, E11001, DOI:10.1029/2005JE002602. [PDF]

7.  Lamb, M.P., Howard, A.D., Johnson, J., Whipple, K., Dietrich, W.E. and Perron, J.T., 2006, Can springs cut canyons into rock? Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 111, E07002, doi:10.1029/2005JE002663. [PDF]

6.  Lamb, M.P., Toniolo, H. and Parker, G., 2006, Trapping of sustained turbidity currents by intraslope minibasins.  Sedimentology, 53, p. 147 – 160. [PDF]

5.  Dietrich, W.E., Nelson, P.A., Yager, E., Venditti, J.G., Lamb, M.P., and Collins, L., 2006, Sediment patches, sediment supply, and channel morphology. In Parker, G., and Garcia, M. (eds.), River, Coastal, and Estuarine Morphodynamics, IAHR Symposium, Taylor and Francis, London, vol. 1, p. 79-90. [PDF]

4.  Lamb, M.P. and Parsons, J.D., 2005, High-density suspensions formed under waves. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 79, 386-397. [PDF]

3.  Myrow, P.M., Lamb, M., Lukens, C., Houck, K., Kluth, C., and Parsons, J., 2004, Hyperpycnal wave-modified turbidites of the Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation, north-central Colorado: Geological Society of America Field Trip Guide, 28 p. [PDF]

2.  Lamb, M.P., D’Asaro, E. and Parsons, J.D., 2004, Turbulent structure of high-density suspensions formed under waves.  Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 109, p. C12026-C12039, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002355.  [PDF]

1.  Lamb, M.P., Hickson, T., Marr, J.G., Sheets, B., Paola, C. and Parker, G., 2004, Surging versus continuous turbidity currents: flow dynamics and deposits in an experimental intraslope basin.  Journal of Sedimentary Research, 74(1), p. 148-155.  [PDF]

Conference Proceedings

22.  Winchell, E., Scheingross, J., Dietrich, W.E., Lamb, M.P., 2008, Fluvial transport of gravel in debris flow cut channels.  EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract H53C-1076.21. 

21.  Lamb, M.P. and Dietrich, W.E., 2008, Waterfall erosion, rock toppling, and the formation of amphitheater-headed canyons in fractured rock.  EOS Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract P34A-07.

20.  Lamb, M.P. and Dietrich, W.E., 2008, Why do waterfall persist in fractured rock?  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 40(6), p. 431.

19.  Lamb, M.P., Dietrich, W.E., and Venditti, J.G., 2008, Constraints on paleoflood magnitudes from a slope-dependent critical Shields Stress, 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Austin, TX.

18.  Dietrich, W.E., Nelson, P.A., Yager, E., Lamb, M.P., and Venditti, J.G., 2007, Persistence and transience in bed surface texture.  EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract H53L-01.

17.  Lamb, M.P., Dietrich, W.E., and Venditti, J.G., 2007,  Is the critical Shields stress for incipient sediment motion dependent on channel-bed slope?  EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract H51I-0889.  [ABSTRACT]

16.  Aciego, S.M., Lamb, M.P., DePaolo, D.J., Kennedy, and Dietrich, W.E., 2006, Combining U-Th/He eruption age dating and 3He cosmogenic dating to constrain landscape evolution.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement, 70(18), p. 2. [ABSTRACT]

15. Myrow, P.M., Lamb, M.P., Lukens, C., Houck, K., 2006, Paleohydraulic interpretations of wave-modified hyperpycnal flow deposits.  EOS Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract PP23B-1763. [ABSRACT]

14.  Perron, T., Lamb, M.P., Koven, C.D., Fung, I.Y., Yager, E., Adamkovics, M., 2006, Valley formation mechanisms and short-term methane precipitation rates on Titan. EOS Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract P13A-0143. [ABSTRACT] 

13.  Lamb, M.P., S. Aciego, W.E. Dietrich, D. DePaolo, A. Howard, T. Perron, and M. Manga, 2005, Were Martian Valleys Cut by Springs?  National Astrobiology Institute. [ABSTRACT]

12. Lamb, M.P., S. Aciego, W.E. Dietrich, D. DePaolo, A. Howard, T. Perron, and M. Manga, 2005, Formation of amphitheatre-headed canyons on Earth and Mars, European Geophysical Union Abstracts, vol. 7, 00912. [ABSTRACT]

11.  Lamb, M.P., A. Howard, W.E. Dietrich, and J.T. Perron, 2005, Hawaii as an analog for Martian amphitheatre-headed valleys.  Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H33C-1404.

10.  Lamb, M.P., Dietrich, W.E. and Howard, A.D., 2004, Can springs cut valleys into bedrock?  Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H53C-1258.

9.  Lamb, M.P. and Dietrich, W.E., 2004, Groundwater sapping as a potential mechanism for the formation of a theatre-headed basaltic canyon, Box Canyon, Idaho.  NASA Workshop on Martian Valley Networks.  [PAPER] 

8.  Lukens, C.E., Myrow, P.M., Lamb, M.P., Houck, K., and Parsons, J., 2004, Wave-modified turbidites: Hyperpycnal flow deposits in the Minturn Formation, central Colorado.  Geological Society of America Abstracts 36(4), p. 26

7.  Parsons, J. D. and Lamb, M. P., 2004, High-density suspensions under waves. 34th International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy.

6.  Perron, J.T., Manga, M., and Lamb, M.P., 2004, Permeability, recharge, and runoff generation on Mars.  Smithsonian Workshop on Martian Valley Networks.  [ABSTRACT]

5.  Parsons, J. D. and Lamb, M. P., 2003, Dynamics of fine-grained suspensions.  Estuarine Research Foundation, Seattle, WA.

4.  Parsons, J. D. and Lamb, M. P., 2003, Dynamics of fine-grained suspensions. ComDelta: Open Conference on Comparing Mediterranean and Black Sea Prodeltas, Aix-en-Provence, France. 

3.  Lamb, M.P. and Parsons, J.D., 2003, An experimental study of high-density suspensions under waves.  Geological Society of America Absracts 35(6), p. 470.

2.  Lamb, M.P., Parsons, J.D. and Johnson, R., 2002, Wave-modified sediment gravity currents: A laboratory study. American Geophysical Union Eos Trans., 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS61A-0193.

1.  Lamb, M.P., Toniolo, H. and Parker, G., 2001, Deposition by turbidity currents in intraslope diapiric minibasins: Results of 1-D experiments and numerical model. American Geophysical Union Eos Trans, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS42A-0459.