Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T14:42:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andressa_Fachin.pdf: 7147263 bytes, checksum: c3f02dba66f39392f3087baf7f763360 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis presents the paleovalley head evolution in the Chopinzinho drainage basin inside Araucária Plateau (Planation Surface 2), aiming to understand the landscape evolution in the South Brazil during the Upper Quaternary. The stratigraphic record was characterized using the combined criteria of pedo-, litho-, allo-, and cronostratigraphic, for which chronology was establish by 14C (AMS) and thermoluminescence. As base these criteria was utilized following technical: field survey, laboratory analyses (textural, ten major oxides more zirconium oxide, clay mineralogy, and dating) and office work (cluster statistical analysis and organization of date). It has been done the reconstitution spatial distribution of the paleosol and paleogullies by drilling. The field survey showed stratigraphic section in the cutting rural road. Therein was identified paleosol with Ab horizon (27.36 + 0.14 Kyr BP 44.13 Kyr cal. BP), paleogullies field of colluvium (15 beds), colluvium-alluvial (4 beds) and alluvial (1 bed). The colluvium beds was divided into clogging faces and ramp faces. The paleogullies were generated in Last Glacial Maximum (< 24 Kyr to > 17 Kyr BP.) and in Medium Holocene (< 7 Kyr to > 4 Kyr BP). This last moment were generated two paleogullies generations promoting the larger erosion phenomenon in the paleovalley head. The paleovalley head happens to be clogging in the Upper Holocene (< 4 Kyr BP) and change of the morphology becoming colluvium ramp. The palleovalley head was eroded by spot drainage and becoming one convex mound in the end of period. This moment there was one inversion of the relief. / Esta dissertação apresenta a evolução de uma paleocabeceira de drenagem no Planalto das Araucárias (Superfície 2),buscando contribuir para o entendimento do Quaternário Tardio do Sul do Brasil. O registro estratigráfico foi caracterizado utilizando-se dos critérios conjugados da pedo-, lito-, alo- e cronoestratigrafia, cuja cronologia foi estabelecida pelo 14C (AMS) e termoluminescência (TL). Com base nesses critérios foram utilizadas as seguintes técnicas: levantamento de campo, análises laboratoriais (granulométrica, análise química dos 10 principais óxidos + Zircônio,mineralogia da fração argila e ainda datações por 14C e luminescência) e trabalho de gabinete (análise estatística por similaridade Cluster e organização dos dados). Foi feita a reconstituição da distribuição espacial do paleossolo e das paleovoçorocas por meio de sondagens. O levantamento de campo revelou seção estratigráfica exposta em corte de estrada. Nela identificou-se: paleossolo com horizonte A húmico (27.360 + 140 anos AP. 44.130 cal. AP.), paleovoçorocas colmatadas por colúvios (15 camadas), colúvio-alúvio (4 camadas) e alúvios (1 camada). As camadas colúviais foram subdivididas em fácies de colmatação e fácies de rampa.As paleovoçorocas foram geradas no Último Máximo Glacial (< 24.000 a> 17.000 anos AP) e no Holocêno Médio (< 7.000 anos a > 4.000 anos AP). Neste último período foram geradas duas gerações de paleovoçorocas, promovendo o maior fenômeno erosivo na cabeceira de drenagem. A paleocabeceira de drenagem passa a ser colmatada no Holoceno Superior (< 4.000 anos AP) e muda de morfologia para rampa de colúvio. No final desse período, a rampa de colúvio é dissecada pela drenagem local e torna-se uma colina convexa. Nessafasehouveumainversão de relevo.

A Ilha Comprida, localizada no litoral sul do Estado de São Paulo, é uma ilha-barreira arenosa holocênica de 63 km de comprimento por até 5 km de largura, limitada a SW pela desembocadura de Cananéia, e a NE, pela desembocadura de Icapara. Seu sistema praia - duna frontal teve grande variação no tempo, como evidenciado por sucessivos truncamentos de cordões litorâneos. Em escala de tempo mais restrita, dentro dos últimos 200 anos, coberta pelo registro histórico e cartográfico e por fotografias aéreas, as mudanças morfológicas mais significativas concentram-se no extremo nordeste da ilha. Incluem a variação de largura na área hoje caracterizada pelo máximo estrangulamento da ilha, a formação de um pequeno campo de dunas transgressivo nesta mesma área, o surgimento em 1943 de uma projeção da linha de costa, atualmente em estágio avançado de erosão, e o aparecimento intermitente e sucessivo de embaiamentos lagunares no setor adjacente da ilha de Iguape. A abertura do canal artificial do Valo Grande, em 1852, atuou de modo direto ou indireto em pelo menos parte destas mudanças. O aumento de vazão, de retrabalhamento de sedimentos arenosos e portanto de aporte de carga de fundo, devido ao Valo Grande, induziu o surgimento de ilhas arenosas e a formação de ?manchas de areia? no fundo do canal lagunar, bem como a intensificação da dinâmica de meandramento da desembocadura de Icapara, implicando possível aceleração na migração desta desembocadura rumo NE e no próprio crescimento longitudinal da barreira. O sistema praia - duna frontal da Ilha Comprida apresenta também grande variação no espaço, evidenciada pela alternância ao longo de sua extensão de morfologias diferentes, o que pode ser atribuído à intercalação entre setores de caráter deposicional e erosivo. As extremidades da barreira caracterizam-se pela ocorrência marcante de pequenos campos de nebkhas sobre terraços baixos de dunas frontais (<0,5 m). A presença dessas feições pode ser relacionada à contínua progradação próximo às desembocaduras lagunares de Icapara e de Cananéia. A zona erosiva mais evidente encontra-se na extensão centro-sul da praia, como evidenciado pela ocorrência de cordões antigos truncados pela linha de costa atual, e pela redução em tamanho de dunas frontais ativas incipientes e estabelecidas, as quais aparecem por vezes com falésias vivas associadas. Na mesma região, a morfodinâmica muda de regime dissipativo para intermediário, com presença de cúspides de espraiamento e berma. Esta região, ademais, concentra a mais alta variabilidade e complexidade de morfologia de dunas (i.e. cordões de dunas incipientes e estabelecidas obliquamente amalgamadas), além de uma concentração maior de dunas do tipo rampa. No restante do sistema, predomina ampla face de praia de baixa declividade (média de 0,66o), com tendência para formas mais estáveis de dunas frontais (terraços e cordões). Medidas estatísticas de distribuição granulométrica (diâmetro médio, desvio-padrão e assimetria) obtidas através do método dos momentos de Pearson, permitiram inferir, pela regra de McLaren, duas células de deriva litorânea longitudinal principais. A célula nordeste, dirigida para NE, abrange aproximadamente 53 km, e a célula sudoeste toma em sentido oposto (SW) os restantes 10 km. As duas zonas de pólo deposicional de deriva são caracterizadas por amplos e baixos terraços de dunas frontais incipientes progradacionais. A zona de divergência entre as células de deriva coincide com a região de erosão costeira mais intensa. A distribuição em massa de minerais pesados é concordante com o transporte longitudinal verificado. Responde a isso a tendência de aumento de minerais de menor equivalente hidráulico (em geral, quimicamente mais instáveis) a despeito da redução de minerais de equivalente hidráulico mais alto (em geral, quimicamente mais estáveis) no rumo de transporte. A integração dos resultados obtidos por análise morfológica (fotointerpretação e estudo de feições de campo) e sedimentológica (granulometria e minerais pesados) permitiu estabelecer um modelo morfodinâmico para o sistema praia - duna frontal recente da Ilha Comprida. Neste modelo, a fase final de evolução da ilha é atribuída tanto à superação do obstáculo ao crescimento longitudinal exercido pelo morro de Icapara, quanto ao incremento de carga sedimentar na desembocadura de Icapara, induzido pela abertura do Valo Grande. / Ilha Comprida is a Holocene sandy barrier-island located on the south coast of São Paulo State, 63 km long and 2 to 5 km wide. Its transverse boundaries are Cananéia and Icapara inlets, at the SW and NE, respectively. The beach-foredune system of Ilha Comprida have experienced intense morphological variation in time, as showed by the successive truncations of littoral ridges. In a more restricted time-scale (at least 200 years) as covered by historical and cartographic records and aerial photographs, the most relevant changes have occurred on the northeast extremity of the island. These changes include: i) variation in width at the present most narrow region; ii) formation of a little transgressive dunefield (2 km2) in the same region; iii) initiation (in 1943) of a projection in the coastline, actually in advanced erosional state; iv) intermittent and successive appearing of lagoonal embayments at the neighboring sector of the Iguape island. The opening of the Valo Grande artificial channel, in 1852, acted either directly and indirectly on these changes. The increase of sedimentary bed-load supply induced the appearance of sand islands and submerged sand patches along the lagoonal channel. Beside this, the increasing meandering of Icapara inlet forced its rapid migration to the NE, and the longitudinal growing of the barrier. The beach-foredune system also shows great variability alongshore, observed on the morphologic alternance of depositional and erosional sectors. The tips of the barrier are characterized by the marked occurrence of small nebkha fields on foredune terraces (up to 0.5 m high). These aeolian morphological features can be related with a continuous progradation nearly Icapara and Cananéia inlets. The most-evidenced erosional zone stays at the mid-southwestern portion of the beach, as observed on the truncation of former beach and foredune ridges by the present coastline, and on the reduction in size of active incipient and established foredunes (that often appears with active cliffs). In the same region, the coastal morphodynamics changes from dissipative to intermediary beach, with presence of swash cusps and berm. Moreover, this site concentrates the highest variability and complexity of dune morphology (e.g. obliquely amalgamated incipient and established foredune ridges), beyond a increasing occurrence of ramp foredunes. In the remains of the beach-dune system, large shorefaces of low declivity (0.66o in mean), with tendency to more stable shapes of foredunes (terraces and ridges), are dominant. Statistical measures on the distribuition of granulometric frequencies (mean diameter, standard deviation, skewness), calculated through the Pearson?s moments method, indicate according to the McLaren rule two main longshore drift cells. The northeastern cell, oriented towards the NE, comprises about 53 km. The southwestern cell, comprising the remaining 10 km, is oriented towards the SW. The two depositional poles of longshore drift cells are characterized by wide and flat progradational, incipient foredune terraces. The divergence zone among these longshore cells drift coincides with the zone of the most intense coastal erosion. The mass distribution of heavy minerals is in agree with the deduced directions of longshore transport. This fact is confirmed by the tendency of increasing concentration of minerals with minor hydraulic equivalence (usually, more unstable minerals) in despite of reduction of minerals with high hydraulic equivalence (usually, more stable minerals) along the net longshore drift direction. The integration of data obtained by morphologic analysis (interpretation of aerial photographs and field features) and sedimentology (grain size, heavy minerals), allowed to postulate a morphodynamic model for the recent beach-foredune system of Ilha Comprida. According to this model, the late phase of barrier evolution is related both to the surpassing an obstacle to longitudinal growth (Icapara hill), and to the increasing sedimentary input at the Icapara inlet, favored by the opening of the Valo Grande channel.

Depósitos pleistocênicos arenosos de origem coluvial são encontrados em diversas regiões do Brasil, nos estados de São Paulo, Paraná e Mato Grosso do Sul. Associados a distintos contextos geológicos, esses depósitos têm recebido diferentes denominações como Formação Paranavaí (SP, PR e MS), Formação Piquerobi (SP) e Formação Cachoeirinha (MS). Neste contexto, foi possível individualizar sob pontos de vista sedimentológico, geocronológico e estratigráfico os depósitos quaternários que ocorrem na Bacia Hidrográfica do Alto Rio Paraná (SP, PR e MS) através da aloestratigrafia, propondo formalmente o Alogrupo Alto Rio Paraná, que é constituído de depósitos coluviais da Aloformação Paranavaí e depósitos fluviais da Aloformação Paraná. Os resultados obtidos indicam que o Alto Rio Paraná está ativo, no mínimo desde 1 Ma passados até os dias atuais, no afeiçoamento do relevo de formas construtiva (terraços) e destrutiva (dissecação). Esses registros geológicos testemunhariam importantes mudanças paleoclimáticas e/ou eventos neotectônicos, que modificaram os níveis de base e reafeiçoaram o relevo. Os episódios de agradação coluvial dos depósitos da Aloformação Paranavaí, instalados sobre superfícies peneplanizadas e afeiçoadas durante o Pleistoceno, são tentativamente correlacionáveis com mudanças paleoclimáticas de escala milenar mundialmente reconhecidas, principalmente nas transições entre os estágios de isótopos do oxigênio. / Sandy Pleistocene deposits of colluvial origin are found in several regions of Brazil, within São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states. Associated to distinct geological contexts, these deposits are known by different names, like Paranavaí Formation (São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states), Piquerobi Formation (São Paulo State) and Cachoeirinha Formation (Mato Grosso do Sul State). In this context, it was possible to recognize from sedimentological, geochronological and stratigraphical viewpoints the Quaternary deposits occurring at Paraná River Upstream Hydrographic Basin (São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul states), through the allostratigraphy, with formal proposition of the Alto Rio Paraná Allogroup, which is constituted by Paranavaí Alloformation colluvial deposits and Paraná Alloformation alluvial deposits. The obtained data indicated that Paraná River Upstream is active, at least from the past 1 My until today in shaping the relief by construction (terraces) and destruction (dissection) processes. These geological records would testify important palaeoclimatic changes and/or neotectonic events, that modified the baselevels and re-shaped the relief. The Paranavaí Alloformation deposits colluvial aggradation episodes, installed on peneplained surfaces shaped during the Pleistocene, are tentatively correlatable with worldwide known millennial scale palaeoclimatic changes, mostly between transitional phases of oxygen isotope stages.

Fossil Agamidae from Western Australia have been the subject of limited study. To aid in fossil agamid identification, Hocknull (2002) examined the maxilla and dentary of several extant species from Australia and determined diagnostic characters for various species groups. In the study here, fossil agamids from two localities in Western Australia, Hastings Cave and Horseshoe Cave, were examined, grouped, and identified to the lowest unambiguous taxonomic level. Morphometric analyses were conducted to compare morphotypes, and find additional diagnostic characters. From Hastings Cave there were two maxilla morphotypes and three dentary morphotypes. Based on identifications, taxa present at this locality were Pogona and Ctenophorus. Horseshoe Cave contained three maxilla morphotypes and two dentary morphotypes; taxa present were Pogona, Tympanocryptis, and Ctenophorus. Morphometric analyses showed separation between groups; however, the dentary morphotype separation was not as clear. Each morphotype identification matched a species in the respective localities today, but identifications are cautious.

The Black Rock volcanic cluster consists of 30 small volume monogenetic volcanoes. The volcanoes of this cluster have exhibited bimodal volcanism for > 9 Ma. The most recent eruption of Ice Springs volcano ~600 yrs. ago along with ongoing geothermal activity attests to the usefulness of a hazard assessment for this area. The likelihood of a future eruption in this area is estimated to be between a 0.16 and 24% chance over the next 1 Ka (95% confidence). The explosivity and nature of many of these eruptions is not well known. In particular, the physical volcanology of Tabernacle Hill suggests a complicated episodic eruption. Initial phreatomagmatic eruptions at Tabernacle Hill are reported to have begun no later than ~14 Ka. The initial eruptive phase produced a tuff cone approximately 150 m high and 1.5 km in diameter with distinct bedding layers. Recent mapping and sampling of Tabernacle Hill's lava and tuff cone deposits was aimed at better constraining the sequence of events, physical volcanology, and energy associated with this eruption. Blocks located on the rim of the tuff cone of were mapped and analyzed to yield preliminary minimum muzzle velocities of 60-70 m s-1. After the initial phreatomagmatic explosions, the eruption style transitioned to a more effusive phase that partially filled the tuff cone with a semi-steady state lava lake 200 m wide and 15 m deep. Eventually, the tuff cone was breached by the impinging lava resulting in large portions of the cone rafting on top of the lava flows away from the vent. Eruption onto the Lake Bonneville lake bed allowed the Tabernacle Hill lava flows to flow radially from the tuff cone and cover an area of 19.35 km², producing a very uniform high aspect ratio (100:1) flow field. Subsequent eruptive phases cycled several times between effusive and explosive, producing scoria cones and more lava flows, culminating in an almost complete drainage of the lava lake through large lava tubes and drain back.

The West Crater-Soda Peaks area covering about 100 km is located 35 km southeast of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington State. It is one of several Quaternary monogenetic High Cascade volcanic centers overlying the Ohaaapecosh Formation of the Western Cascade Group and interstratified glacial till.These volcanic centers are the most westerly of the range.

En raison d’une abondante matrice extracellulaire chondrogénique, peu vascularisée et hypoxique, le chondrosarcome, cancer du cartilage, est une tumeur chimio et radiorésistante. Une stratégie bispécifique s’appuyant sur deux caractéristiques spécifiques du chondrosarcome, une forte densité de charges négatives, ainsi qu’une hypoxie chronique sévère de la matrice extracellulaire, est actuellement développée au laboratoire et consiste à fonctionnaliser une prodrogue activée en hypoxie avec un ammonium quaternaire (AQ). Sur la base de résultats précliniques, une prodrogue, ICF05016, a été identifiée et fait actuellement l’objet d’une étude d’optimisation.Ce projet vise à identifier des relations structure-activité dans une série de moutardes phosphorodiamidates vectorisées par une fonction AQ. Dans une première partie, nous nous sommes intéressés à faire varier la nature des substituants de la fonction ammonium quaternaire ainsi que la longueur du bras espaceur séparant cette dernière de la moutarde. Ainsi, 27 dérivés ont été synthétisés par une séquence commune multi-étapes impliquant la phosphorylation d’un dérivé 2-nitro-5-hydroxyméthylimidazole.Un screening par résonance plasmonique de surface a permis de mettre en évidence 12 composés plus affins envers l’aggrécane que le composé de référence ICF05016. Cette étude a révélé une dépendance importante entre l’affinité à l’aggrécane et la nature de l’ammonium quaternaire, les composés benzyléspossédant tous des affinités supérieures. In vitrosur cultures cellulaires HEMC-SS, les composés ont affichés des ratios de cytotoxicité normoxie vs hypoxie (HCR)supérieurs à celui du lead ICF05016, et notamment le composé benzylé31f.Avec une constante de dissociation à l’aggrécane de 2,10 µM et un différentiel de cytotoxicité normoxie/hypoxie équivalent à celui de l’évosfosfamide en étude clinique, la composé 31f a été évalué en termes de stabilité et de clivage en conditions réductrices, mimant l’hypoxie tumorale. Démontrant une excellente stabilité sur 24 heures dans un tampon phosphate, le composé 31f s’est révélé être réduit par réduction chimique ou enzymatique via une nitroréductase, et ce avec une cinétique rapide. Ce dernier a été ainsi identifié au terme de l’évaluation in vitro et de cet axe de recherche comme un nouveau « lead ».Dans une seconde partie, nous avons choisi de moduler l’halogène et la position des bras alkylants portés par la moutarde phosphorodiamidate. Compte tenu de l’instabilité des composés de la série bromée, par rapport à la série chlorée, les analogues bromés des composés ICF05016 et 31f n’ont pu faire l’objet d’une évaluation in vitro. Pour les isomères de type moutarde ifosfamide, l’instabilité des précurseurs phosphoramidiques et les difficultés de synthèse inhérentes à l’introduction d’une fonction amine secondaire sur un chlorure de phosphoryle préalablement fonctionnalisé, nous ont contraints à réorienter nos travaux vers des structures issues d’une étape de chimie de click, permettant d’introduire le bras vecteur portant la fonction amine tertiaire indépendamment de l’étape de phosphorylation. Cette séquence réactionnelle pourrait être étendue à la synthèse de nouveaux analogues du composé 31f, identifié lors de ces travaux. / Due to an abundant chondrogenic, poorly vascularized and particularly hypoxic extracellular matrix, chondrosarcoma, a malignant cartilaginous tumour, is chemo- and radio-resistant. A dual targeted therapy leveraging specific chondrosarcoma hallmarks, an extensive cartilaginous extracellular matrix, namely the high negative fixed charge density and severe chronic hypoxia,was investigatedby conjugation of a hypoxia-activated prodrug (HAP) to quaternary ammonium (QA) functions. Based on preclinical results, animidazole prodrug, ICF05016, was identified and provided the basis for a lead optimization study.This project was designed to identify structure-activity relationships in a series of QA-targeted phosphorodiamidate mustard conjugates. In a first part, a series of 27 conjugates, with different QA function and length of the alkyl linker, was synthesizedvia a common multi-step sequence involvingphosphorylation of a key 2-nitroimidazole alcohol intermediate. Then, biomolecular interactions between these QA derivatives and aggrecan were assessed using thesurface plasmon resonance technology. This screeningrevealed that the affinity depends more on the natureof the QA function, rather than on the linker length. The most promising results were obtainedwith QA bearing a benzyle group. Twelves compounds were then evaluated in terms of hypoxia selective cytotoxicityonthe HEMC-SS cell line. For all prodrugs, an overall improvement in hypoxic selectivity compared with the ICF05016 was obtained and the positive impact of thebenzyle QA function was again highlighted. With a dissociation constant of 2.10 µM in the SPR experiment and an attractive hypoxic selectivity, compound 31fwas further selected for a stability and reductive activation study. Activation of the prodrug and phosphoramide mustard release under reductive chemical conditions, and nitroreductase-based activation were demonstrated. From this study, compound 31f emerged as the most effective PG-targeted HAPs. In a second part, the nature of the halogen and the position of the alkylating arms carried by the phosphorodiamidic mustard were modified. Given the high instability of the final compounds of the brominated series, compared to the chlorinated series, brominated analogs of the compounds ICF05016 and 31fcould not be obtained with sufficient purity to be evaluated in vitro.For ifosfamide-like isomers, the design of the prodrugs was modified due to the instability of the phosphoramidic precursors or difficulties of introducing a secondary amine function on a phosphoryl chloride previously functionalized.A click chemistry approach was developed to tether the spacer arm carrying the tertiary amine function independently of the phosphorylation step and could be extended to the synthesis of triazoleanalogues of the new lead 31f.

Quaternary basalts of Gem Valley, Idaho, are present as valley fill (Group 1) and as well defined flows in the Bear River Range (Group 2) east of Gem Valley. Minerals present in both groups of basalts include olivine (Fo73 -Fo39), augite (Wo41 En39 Fs20), plagioclase (An75 -An40), and Fe-Ti oxides. Coexisting pairs of magnetite and ilmenite, and olivine and clinopyroxene in several samples indicate temperatures of crystallization from 958°c to 1167°c. The Group 2 basalts exhibit a cumulate texture with abundant large (2 cm) phenocrysts of plagioclase. Chemically, the Gem Valley basalts are similar to the basalts of the Snake River Plain with respect to SiO2, total Fe, P2O5 and Na2O but differ in the amounts of Al2O3 and MgO present. The Al2O3 is generally higher and the MgO is generally lower in the Gem Valley basalts. Comparing Group 1 with Group 2 basalts, the Group 2 basalts generally have more alumina and alkalis than the Group 1 basalts. Chemically both groups of basalt exhibit characteristics of the tholeiitic basalt suite, because they are hypersthene normative. Mineralogically, both groups of basalt contain but one pyroxene, augite, which is characteristic of the alkali-olivine basalt suite. This apparent contrast in classifications may be resolved by referring to these basalts as transitional between the alkali-olivine and tholeiitic basalt .suites, with the restriction that no genetic relationship to either suite is implied. Within the limits of this study, it is proposed that the Group 1 basalts may have formed by the partial melting of mantle material with a pyrolite composition. Furthermore, the Group 2 basalts appear to have originated as a result of the accumulation of plagioclase in a fractionating magma of Group 1 composition.

Southern Star Valley is a structural and physiographic basin bounded on the east by the southern Star Valley fault, an active normal fault associated with Basin and Range extension. The southern Star Valley fault separates southern Star Valley from the Salt River Range and forms a dramatic north-south trending topographic escarpment. Statistical analysis of relative-age dating (RD) parameters taken from glacial deposits in the Salt River Range defined distinctive age groups for the deposits, and comparison of RD data allowed correlations with late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial deposits elsewhere in the Rocky Mountains. However, the sedimentary lithologies in the glacial deposits in the study area and inherent variability of RD data limited definitive regional correlations. The southern Star Valley fault (SSVF) lies in a parabola-shaped zone of large, seismogenic normal faults. The zone trails to the west of the eastward-migrating Yellowstone hot spot. Basin-facing fault scarps up to 11 meters high created by recurrent late Quaternary faulting along the southern Star Valley fault are preserved in late-Pleistocene and Holocene alluvial fans along the Salt River Range front. Radiocarbon ages from faulted deposits exposed in a trench provide age estimates of ca. 8,090 ± 80 and 5,540 ± 70 yrs. B. P. for the two most recent paleoearthquakes. The magnitudes of the paleoearthquakes, based on surface rupture height and length and estimates, were between Ms6.9 and Ms7.1. The tectonic geomorphology of river alluvium and alluvial fans near the SSVF suggests that recurrent faulting has downdropped the northern end of southern Star Valley more in relationship to the southern part of the valley and created a deep depocenter in the northern part.

The landscape evolution of the northeastern Uinta Mountains and the manner in which climatic and tectonic forcing have influenced it are not well constrained. Surficial deposits covering ~325 km2 below the glacial termini in the Henrys Fork and ~50 km2 along the Green River in western Browns Park were mapped at 1:24,000 scale to develop a Quaternary stratigraphic framework for the northeastern Uinta Mountains. The Henrys Fork mapping area spans from late Wisconsinan moraines to Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The Henrys Fork stratigraphy contains 10 mainstem gravels, six piedmont gravels, and landslide deposits. Terraces preserved along the Henrys Fork converge downstream and are strath terraces underlain by clast-supported, cobble gravel derived from the Uinta Mountain Group and Paleozoic limestone units. The Henrys Fork terrace stratigraphy was correlated to the Wind River terrace stratigraphy for age control, and incision rates were estimated at 80-110 m/m.y. The Browns Park mapping area includes Little Hole and continues through lower Red Canyon into westernmost Browns Park, ending at the Warren Draw-Swallow Canyon quadrangle boundary. The Browns Park stratigraphy includes eight mainstem gravels, five piedmont gravels, and various landslide, colluvial, and eolian deposits. A tuffaceous bed with Lava Creek Bash (640 ka) was identified near the top of a deposit at Little Hole that was previously mapped as Miocene basin fill. Minimum Green River incision rates were estimated between 90 and 115 m/m.y. using the Lava Creek Bash for age control. These rates are comparable to estimates for the Henrys Fork, but are about half of the rates reported for the south flank of the Uintas and other central Rocky Mountain ranges. A series of three distinct deposits in western Browns Park are interpreted as evidence for the landslide impoundment and subsequent outburst flooding of the Green River. These include slackwater deposits at Little Hole, an outburst flood deposit in western Browns Park, and a large paleolandslide deposit that lies between them. Estimates of sediment accumulation rates behind the paleolandslide dam suggest it was stable for ~605 years. Peak discharge estimates from impounded water volume estimates and paleoflow competence indicators suggest that the resulting outburst flood was ~22,000 m3/s.