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L. Scott Eaton
Associate Professor of Geology

Ph.D., University Of Virginia  (Environmental Sciences)
M.S., Southern Illinois University
         (Geology and Geomorphology)
B.S., James Madison University (Geology)

 

 

 

Dr. L. Scott Eaton
Department of Geology and Environmental Science
MSC 7703
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia  22807

E-Mail:  eatonls@jmu.edu
 Office:  Miller Hall 230
Phone:  (540) 568-3339

 

 

 

 

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

 

Eaton, L.S., and Bailey, C.M., 2004, Surficial and bedrock geology of western Madison

County, Virginia, Virginia Geological Field Conference Guide Book.

 

Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A., Kochel, R.C., and Howard, A.D., 2003, Role of debris

flows in long-term landscape denudation in the central Appalachians of Virginia. Geology, v. 31, p. 339-342.

 

Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A. Kochel, R.C., and Howard, A.D., 2003, Quaternary

deposits and landscape evolution of the central Blue Ridge of Virginia, Geomorphology, v. 56, p. 139-154.

 

Litwin, R.J., Morgan, B.A., Eaton, L.S., and Wieczorek, G.F., 2004, Assessment of Late

Pleistocene to recent climate-induced vegetation changes in and near the

Shenandoah National Park (Blue Ridge Province, VA), USGS Open File Report 2004-1351.

 

Morgan, Benjamin A; Eaton, L Scott; Wieczorek, Gerald F, 2003, Pleistocene and

Holocene colluvial fans and terraces in the Blue Ridge region of Shenandoah

National Park, Virginia, U. S. Geological Survey, Report: OF 03-0410, 25 pp., 1

Sheet.

 

Wieczorek, G.F., Larsen, M.C., Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A. and Blair, J. L.,

2002, Debris-flow and flooding deposits in coastal Venezuela

associated with the storm of December 14-16, 1999: U.S. Geological Survey,

            Geologic Investigation Series Map I-2772.

 

Wieczorek, G.F., Eaton, L.S., and Turner, E.J., 2004 (in review) Landslide activity

along Meadow Run, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Geological Society of America Bullentin

 

 

 

 

Recent Abstracts

 

Bierman, P.R., Pavich, M., Eaton, L.S., Finkel, R., and Larsen, J., 2002, The boulders of

Madison County, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 34(6), p.127; Geological Society of America, 2002 annual meeting, Denver, CO, Oct. 27-30, 2002.

 

Eaton, L. Scott, 2004, The role of debris flows in long-term denudation and landscape

evolution in the central Appalachians, : Eos Trans. AGU.

 

 

Eaton, L.S.; Reynolds, S.H., 2002, Trends in vegetation recovery of the Kinsey Run

debris fan, Madison County, Virginia, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 34(2), p.8.

 

Eaton, L.S.; Wieczorek, G.F.; Morgan, B.A.; McNown, A.W.; Smoot, J.P.; and Litwin,

R.J., 2002, Periglacial slope processes and deposits in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 34(6), p.276.

 

Eaton, L. Scott, Yanosky, Thomas M., and Wieczorek, Gerald F., 2003, Use of

dendrochronology for determining the chronology of landslide activity along Meadow Run, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA: Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46).

 

Felker, Kristin C., Benedict, Meredith L., and Eaton, L. Scott, 2004, Sedimentology

and geomorphology of Blackrock block stream, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 73.

 

Frangos, William, and Eaton, L.Scott, 2004, Case History: Merging the Tools of DC

Resistivity and Fracture Trace Analysis for Locating High Yield Domestic Water Wells in Karst Terrain, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA, (abstract), AGU Montreal Meeting, May, 2004.

 

Kochel, R. Craig, Nickelsen, Richard P., and Eaton, L. Scott, 2003, Elongated low-

gradient debris fans: Jokulhlaups resulting from tributary damming by pre-Wisconsinan glacial ice lobes moving up the Buffalo Creek Valley in central Pennsylvania, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, No. 6, September 2003, p. 335.

 

Litwin, R.J., Morgan, B.A., and Eaton, L.S.,2004, Proxy climate trends in the Blue Ridge

of Virginia, 0-45 KA, and comparison to the Greenland ice core record, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 114.

 

Neely, B., H.; Eaton, L.S., 2002, Soil pedogenesis of debris fans, Graves Mill, VA

Virginia Journal of Science, 52(2), p.111; 79th annual meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, Harrisonburg, VA, May 22-25, 2001.

 

Peebles, Erin K. and Eaton, L. Scott, 2004, The past, present, and future locations of

the stream of Meadow Run, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 114.

 

Printz, C.M.; Eaton, L.S., 2002, The karst development of the Union and Hurricane

Ridge Cave systems, Dickson Spring drainage basin, Monroe County, West Virginia, Virginia Journal of Science, 52(2), p.111; 79th annual meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, Harrisonburg, VA, May 22-25, 2001.

 

Turner, Eric J., and Eaton, L. Scott, 2004, Reactivation of slope failures along Meadow

Run, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 120.

 

Wieczorek, Gerald F., Eaton, L. Scott, and Turner, Eric J. 2004, Landslide activity

along Meadow Run, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, p. 149.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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