Catalogue of Chester B. Beaty image collection
Chester B. Beaty studied and documented alluvial fans in the White Mountains of California and some other parts of Western United States and Canada. His interest was geomorphological changes with time and he documented these changes via aerial and analogue photography among other peer reviewed articles that documents his work (see list below). This image sampler aims to illustrate his digitally cataloged collection recently scanned and classifieds by Linah Ababneh, Daniel Pritchett and John Smiley from the White Mountain Research Station, CA. All images are available to the public for free and per request from Daniel Pritchett ( skypilots@wmrs.edu
) plus a little handling and shipping fee (usually via media mail).
CHESTER B. BEATY 1960, Ph.D. "Gradational processes in the White Mountains of California and Nevada."
1950 M.A. Louisiana State Univ., Geography Department
1948 B.A. Louisiana State Univ., Social Sciences
1969 – 1998 (?) University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Professor of Geography.
1958-1969 Univ. of Montana
Books and Monographs
1959 Desert Flood Conditions in the White Mountains of California and Nevada/. (with J.E.
Kesseli) U.S. Army, QM Research and Engineering Command, Natick, Mass. Technical Report
EP-108, 108 pp.
1968 Sequential Study of Desert Flooding in the White Mountains of
California and Nevada/. U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Earth Sciences
Laboratory, Natick, Mass., Technical Report 68-31-ES. 96 pp.
1972 "Geomorphology, geology, and non-agricultural resources." In F.J.
Jankunis (ed.), Southern Alberta, A Regional Perspective. Lethbridge,
Alberta: Unileth Press, pp. 11-19.
1975 “The Landscapes of Southern Alberta: A Regional Geomorphology”.
Lethbridge, Alta., University of Lethbridge Production Services, 98 pp. Reprinted 1976, 1979.
Articles
1956 Landslides and slope exposure." Journal of Geology, 64(1):70-74
1959 "Slope retreat by gullying." Bulletin Geological Soc. Amer.70:1479-1482, 1959.

1961 "Topographic effects of faulting: Death Valley, California." Annals of the Association
American Geographer 51:234-240.
1961 "Boulder deposit in Flint Creek Valley, western Montana." Bulletin Geological Soc. Amer.
72:1015-1020.
1962 "Asymmetry of stream patterns and topography in the Bitterroot Range,
Montana." Journal of Geology, 70(3):347-354
1962 "Topographic effects of glacial Lake Missoula, Montana: a preliminary report." The California Geographer, 3:113-122.
1963 "Origin of alluvial fans, White Mountains, California and Nevada."Annals, Assoc. Amer.
Geogr., 53:516-535, 1963.
1965 "Flint Creek boulder deposit." Guidebook, Billings Geological Society,16th Annual Field
Conference, pp. 122-126.
1966 "Geographers and the multiple use concept." The Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal,
3(2):48-52.
1970 "Age and estimated rate of accumulation of an alluvial fan, White
Mountains, California." American Journal of Science, 268(1):50-77.
1971 "Climatic change? some doubts." Bulletin, Geological Soc. Amer., 82(5):1395-1398.
1972a"Geographical distribution of post-glacial slumping in southern
Alberta." Canadian Geotechnical Journal 9(2):219-224.
1972b "The effect of moisture on slope stability: a classic example from southern Alberta, Canada." Journal of Geology 80:362-366.
1974 "Needle ice and wind in the White Mountains of California." Geology (Geol. Soc. Amer.),
2(11):565-567.
1974 "Debris flows, alluvial fans, and a revitalized catastrophism." Zeitschrift für
Geomorphologie/, Suppl. Bd. 21, pp. 39-51.
1975 "Coulee alignment and the wind in southern Alberta, Canada." Bulletin of the Geological
Society of America, 86(1), pp. 119-128.
1975 "Sublimation or melting: observations from the White Mountains,
California and Nevada, U.S.A." Journal of Glaciology 14(71):275-286, 1975.

1978 "The causes of glaciation" American Scientist 66(4):452-459.
(Reprinted in B.J. Skinner (ed.), Climates Past and Present. Wm. Kaufmann, pp. 38-45, 1981
1978 "Ice ages and continental drift." New Scientist 80(1132):776-777.
1980 "Glaciation" McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology pp. 214-215.
1983 "Drifting along with a wandering Polar curve." Geology (Geol. Soc.Amer.)
1983 "Origin of Alluvial fans, White Mountains, California and Nevada." In
Benchmark Papers in Geology: Modern and Ancient Alluvial Fan Deposits/.
Stroudsburg, PA: Hutchinson Ross Pub. Co.
1990a. “Anatomy of a White Mountains debris-flow; the making of an alluvial fan” Rachocki-
Andrzej and Church-Michael(ed.), In Alluvial fans: a field approach. John Wiley and Sons.
Chichester, United Kingdom. pp.69-89.
1990b “Milk River in southern Alberta; a classic underfit stream.”
The Canadian Geographer = Le
Geographe Canadien 34; 2, Pages 171-174.
1989a “Great big boulders I have known” Geology 17; 4, Pages 349-352.
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1989 “Energetic earthquakes and boulders on alluvial fans; is there a connection?”
Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America 79 (1)219-224.
1988 “Large boulders on alluvial fans; the possible role of earthquakes in their emplacement”
Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, 84th annual meeting. 20 (3) 141. 1988.
1985 “Ice ages and continental drift” Fifield-Richard (ed.) The making of the Earth. In the collection: New Scientist Guides. Kenward-Michael (editor)
Basil Blackwell. Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 266-271