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Ron Shreve, Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geophysics |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Geology 3713 |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-5273 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | shreve@ess.ucla.edu |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, glaciology, and geological physics: theoretical fluvial geomorphology; glacier physics and its application to glacial geology; physics of sediment transport; mechanics of sediment subduction and melange formation. |
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Education |
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| | B.S., 1952, California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 1958, California Institute of Technology |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Shreve, R. L., Statistical law of stream numbers, Journal
of Geology, 74, 17-37, 1966. | | | Shreve, R. L., The
Blackhawk landslide, Geological Society of America Special Paper 108, 47
p., 1968. | | | Shreve, R. L., Movement of water in glaciers,
Journal of Glaciology, 11, 205-214, 1972. | | | Shreve,
R. L., Glacier sliding at subfreezing temperatures, Journal of Glaciology,
30, 341-347, 1984. | | | Shreve, R. L., Esker characteristics
in terms of glacier physics, Katahdin esker system, Maine, Geological Society
of America Bulletin, 96, 639-646, 1985. | | | Shreve,
R. L., and M. Cloos, Dynamics of sediment subduction, melange formation, and prism
accretion, Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, 10229-10245, 1986. | | | Nelson,
J. M., R. L. Shreve, S. R. McLean, and T. G. Drake, Role of near-bed turbulence
structure in bed load transport and bed form mechanics, Water Resources Research,
31, 2071-2086,1995. |
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