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Richard F Madole

Rich Madole is a Scientist Emeritus with the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Research focus chiefly on documenting the history of water-table fluctuations in and near the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, San Luis Valley, Colorado, during late Pleistocene and Holocene time. Ground-water withdrawals and climate change are the primary threats to water resources in this area (Mast, 2007, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5147). Thus, knowing the frequency and magnitude of past, present, and potential future water-table fluctuations is important to agriculture (the principal economy), municipalities, and several government agencies. In addition, ground-water withdrawal here is of strategic importance to administration of the Rio Grande Compact, which assures availability of Rio Grande water to users farther downstream.

 

Professional Experience

  • 1997-present: Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey

  • 1974-1997: Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey

  • 1972-1974: Research Geologist & Visiting Professor Geologic Sciences, University of Colorado

  • 1971-1972: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Colorado

  • 1967-1971: Chairman, Department of Earth Science, Adrian College

  • 1965-1967: Senior Geologist, Photogeomorphology Group, Texas Instruments

  • 1963-1965: Exploration Geologist, Chevron, Standard of Texas Division

Science and Products

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Glacial Lake Devlin and the chronology of Pinedale Glaciation on the east slope of the Front Range, Colorado

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Richard F. Madole

Time of Pinedale deglaciation in north-central Colorado: Further considerations

The stratigraphy and 14C ages obtained at three sites near Buffalo Pass, in the Park Range, and at two sites on La Poudre Pass., in the Front Range, Colorado, suggest that (1) termination of Pinedale Glaciation in most of the Park Range and Front Range occurred at least 10,000 yr ago, and possibly as early as 11,000 B.P.; (2) in the southern part of the Park Range, where the Continental Divide is
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R.F. Madole

Bog stratigraphy, radiocarbon dates, and Pinedale to Holocene glacial history in the Front Range, Colorado

Radiocarbon dates and stratigraphic cores from bogs, kettle ponds, and former ice-marginal lakes on the east and west sides of the Front Range, Colo., between lat 40°00' and 40°24' N. suggest that (1) valley glaciers of Pinedale age began to recede from their terminal positions between about 14,600 and 13,000 yr ago, (2) revegetation of glaciated areas at altitudes of 2,600-2,900 m (8,600-9,500 ft
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Richard F. Madole
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center

Geologic map of the Ward quadrangle, Boulder County, Colorado

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Dolores J. Gable, Richard F. Madole
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