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IMPACTS OF BASALTIC VOLCANISM ON INCISED FLUVIAL SYSTEMS
DOES THE RIVER GIVE A DAM?
Kyle House, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Cooper Brossy, Fugro /WLA, Inc.Liz Safran, Lewis & Clark CollegeLisa Ely, Central Washington UniversityJim O’Connor, U.S. Geological Survey
Owyhee River Interstate Geological Investigation Network
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Goal of this talkDescribe the characteristics of the response of the Owyhee River, OR to the incursion of voluminous basaltic lava flows.
Thanks to input fromNinad BondreKathy CashmanDuane ChampionRyan CrowNatalia DeligneCassie FentonNick FoitGordon Grant
Chris HenryKeith HowardKarl KarlstromCaitlin OremShannon OthusTabitha ProsserTerry SpellBrent Turrin
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‘When lava met valley’
• Intracanyon lavas create extreme disruption of ‘normal’ fluvial processes
▫Geomorphic effects
▫Hydrological effects / Ecological effects
▫Regional landscape effects
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‘When lava met valley’
Morphological effects
▫Channel and valley re-paving
▫River diversion / realignment
▫Channel Blockage and damming
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Intracanyon flows: ‘When lava met valley’
Hydrological effects / Ecological effects
▫Hey, there’s a lake!
▫What the…there’s no sediment!
▫Uh-oh, the new dam is leaking!
!
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‘When lava met valley’
•Regional effects
▫Master stream forced to cut lava for 10ks of years
▫ ‘Normal’ vertical and lateral erosion thwarted
▫Huge rock and sediment pulse to manage
▫Deceleration of landscape lowering
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The Owyhee River
• Tributary to the Snake River• Junction of Nevada, Oregon,
and Idaho• Drainage area 8600 sq. miles• Bulk of watershed on volcanic
plateau▫ Miocene rhyolite lavas▫ Dispersed lacustrine basins▫ Mio-Pliocene plateau basalt▫ Pliocene river canyon▫ Plio-Pleistocene intra-
canyon basalt flows (6-8)
Nevada
Oregon
Idaho
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Middle Owyhee River: Quaternary lava flows
10 km
Saddle Butte Qbs:145 ka
Bogus Rim Qbr: 1.8 Ma
Greeley lavaQbg: .78 to 1.8 Ma
Clarks Butte Qbc: 240 ka
West Crater Qbw: 60 ka
Coffee Pot
Qbcp < 7 ka
Rocky Butte Qbrb: 30 ka
Many late Cenozoic flows on the
plateau, but only 6 extensive and
well-preserved Quaternary
intracanyon flows at surface
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Re-Paving courtesy of Bogus Lavas
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The Bogus Lava paleovalley: upstream view
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Intracanyon lava flow stratigraphy: flow margins
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Middle Owyhee River: Quaternary lava dams
10 km
Qbs:145 ka
Qbr: 1.8 Ma
Qbg: .78 to 1.8 Ma
Qbc: 240 ka
Qbw: 60 ka
Qbcp < 7 ka
Qbrb: 30 ka
Iron Point
Ryegrass
Sand Spring
Granite Ck
Greeley Bar6 principal intacanyon lava flows
5 extant lava dams / deltas
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Saddle Butte Lava Dam
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Hello, water? It’s me…lava!
Subaerial lava
Lava delta‘foresets’
Passage zone
Saddle Butte lava-water interaction features
40
m
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Saddle Butte lava dam
Lava deltaDam Forebay
Fluvio-lacustrine sediments
landslide
Subaerial lava
Earlier advance
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Greeley Bar lava dam
Bogus Rim lava
Greeley lava flow and lava delta
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West Crater Lava Dam
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West Crater lava dam stratigraphy
Saddle Butte lava
West Crater lava deltaFossil
tributaryPaleovalley divide
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West Crater lava delta and fossil tributary
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Lava dam models: Crow et al., 2008
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Type section of lava dam failure?
Mile 192, Colorado River in Grand Canyon
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Grand Canyon lava dam failure deposit
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Grand Canyon lava dam failure deposit
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Lava dam models: Crow et al., 2008
Owyhee lava dams
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Spillway gravels on Bogus Lavas
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Bogus Rim lava spillway gravels
human
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Spillway Gravels, West Crater lava
Yep, that’s a fault
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1400 sq. km
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West Crater lava dam lake seds
West Crater lava dam (60-80 ka)Saddle Butte lava
55 ka47 ka
25 m of lacustrine sediments with Cascadian tephra layers. Evidence for long-lived lake
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Lava Dam Longevity
Stream Power
Sed Q Water Q
Dam integrity
Emplacement
Vent site Entry site Dam site
Structure Scale
Why does the river give a dam?
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The gift that keeps on giving:The lava-landslide link
•Lava flows in the Owyhee lead to landslides
▫River diversion▫Undercutting▫Lateral Unloading▫Landslide-rebound▫Stratigraphic loading
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West Crater Lava Margin FAIL
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The Lava-Landslide Link
Valley wall landslide
Lavamargin landslide
IntracanyonLava flow
Capping basalt
Sediments
displace
ment
Displacement Undercutting ‘Rebound’ Lava Unloading
undercutting
unloading
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Owyhee landslide dam breach
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Fluvial Incision History: river scale
Cooper Brossy figure
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Fluvial incision chronometers1.8 Ma
240 ka
70 ka
915 m
1146 m
972 m
930 m
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Lava Flow profiles: Reach-scale
Meters
Met
ers
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The Bogus Lava background rate
80 m
220 m
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Long term incision rate from Bogus Rim lava
270 m in 1.8 Ma0.15 mm /yr
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38.13 ka
34.95 ka
14.77 ka
T3 T2
T4
11.1 ka
T5
50
40
30
20
10
Met
ers
abo
ve r
iver
su
rfac
e
T5T2
T3 T4
Incision Rates at Dogleg BendSpillway
1 m
m/y
r
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Thwarted Erosion
From Hamblin, 1994
That which may have transpired in absence of intracanyon lava flows
What is the tangible influence of extrafluvial processes?
What isn’t in the landscape because of this?