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Geological Society of America
Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado
October 31-November 3, 2010


Coalition Presentations


Title: You can see the forest through the trees: LiDAR & glacial land systems, examples from Cayuga County, New York
Authors: Andrew L. Kozlowski (1)
  Colby A. Smith (2)
  Newton W. Krumdieck (1)
  William Kappel (3)
Affiliations: (1) New York State Geologic Survey, New York State Museum, 3140 Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230, akozlows@mail.nysed.gov
  (2) Geology, New York State Museum, Cultural Education Center of the Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12208
  (3) U.S. Geological Survey, 30 Brown Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-1573
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Title: Comparison of airborne LiDAR elevation data and USGS National Elevation Dataset information for inputs to regional and large-scale geologic mapping applications in Illinois
Author: Donald E. Luman
Affiliation: Office of the Director, Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, dluman@isgs.illinois.edu
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Title: Sangamon and early Wisconsin episode stratigraphy and optical luminescence dates near the ancient Mississippi River Valley
Authors: Donald E. McKay III (1)
  Hong Wang (1)
  Richard C. Berg (1)
  Steven L. Forman (2)
Affiliations: (1) Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-6964, mckay@isgs.illinois.edu
  (2) Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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Title: Application of LiDAR data to mapping glacial landform/sediment associations, Champaign County, Illinois
Authors: William W. Shilts (1)
  Richard C. Berg (2)
  Donald E. Luman (3)
  Donald E. McKay III (2)
Affiliations: (1) Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability (INRS), 179 Natural Resources Building, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, shilts@isgs.uiuc.edu
  (2) Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820-6964
  (3) Office of the Director, Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-6964
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Title: Three-dimensional surficial geologic mapping, Shandaken quadrangle, Catskill Mountains, New York
Authors: Colby A. Smith (1)
  Andrew L. Kozlowski (1)
  Paul Stefanik (2)
  Dan Davis (3)
Affiliations: (1) New York State Geologic Survey, New York State Museum, 3140 Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230, csmith4@mail.nysed.gov
  (2) Geology, New York State Museum, Cultural Education Center of the Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12208
  (3) Stream Management Program, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, 71 Smith Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401
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Title: A complete sedimentary record from last glacial termination to early Holocene in Midwestern dune field
Authors: Hong Wang
  Andrew Stumpf
  Xiaodong Miao
Affiliations: Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-6964, wang@isgs.illinois.edu
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Title: 3-D geologic mapping of Quaternary sediments using GIS and PETREL in Walworth County, WI
Authors: Jodi A. Lau (1)
  Jason F. Thomason (2)
  David Malone (3)
Affiliations: (1) Geography-Geology, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4400, Normal, IL 61790-4400, jalau@ilstu.edu
  (2) Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820-6964
  (2) Geography-Geology, Illinois State Univ., Campus Box 4400, Normal, IL 61761-4400
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