Session: Quaternary Geology

Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 352DEF

Presiding:

Johanna Kieniewicz , Alan Kehew and Don J. Easterbrook

8:00 AM

Stratigraphic and Chronologic Evidence from Offshore Deposits for An Extended Provo Stage, Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah
Holly S. Godsey, University of Utah; Charles Oviatt, Kansas State Univ; David M. Miller, US Geol Survey; Marjorie A. Chan, University of Utah

8:15 AM

278-2

Dune Activation in the Eastern Great Plains of Nebraska and Kansas
Paul R. Hanson; R.M. Joeckel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; William Johnson, University of Kansas; Aaron Young, Univ. of Nebraska; Alan Arbogast, Michigan State University

8:30 AM

278-3

Optical Ages from Eolian, Lacustrine and Fluvial Sediment in the Glacial Lake Wisconsin Basin
J. Elmo Rawling III, University of Wisconsin Platteville; Paul Hanson, Univ. of Nebraska; Aaron R. Young, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; John W. Attig, Univ of Wisconsin

8:45 AM

278-4

A New Analytical Approach to Detect Cryptotephras in Arctic Lake Sediment Cores
Benjamin B. Schupack, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research; Gifford Miller, Univ of Colorado

9:00 AM

278-5

Distribution and Origin of Disseminated Organic Carbon in Glacial Drift, Southwestern Michigan, USA
Alan E. Kehew, Western Michigan University; Nathaniel A. Barnes, GeoTrans, Inc; R.V. Krishnamurthy

9:15 AM

278-6

Multiple Proxy Evidence from Paleosols for Abrupt Late Neogene Warming at the Gray Fossil Site, Northeastern TN, USA
Aaron Jacob Shunk, Baylor; Steven Driese, Baylor Univ

9:30 AM

278-7

Alpine Wetland Soils, Niwot Ridge, Front Range, Colorado
Scott F. Burns, Portland State University; Susan Garland, Portland State University

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

278-8

FAROUK EL-BAZ AWARD for DESERT Research: Late Quaternary Environments in the Nile Basin
Martin A.J. Williams, University of Adelaide

10:30 AM

278-9

Holocene Floodplain Paleosol Sequences: Natural Versus Anthropogenically Driven Environmental Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Nikki Strong, Univ of Minnesota; Zewdu Eshetu, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research; Tsige Gebru, Addis Ababa University; Jane Willenbring, University of Hanover; Yongsong Huang, Brown University; Valery Terwilliger, Université François Rabelais de Tours

10:45 AM

278-10

Differentiating Lacustrine from Paludal Environments in Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt
Johanna Kieniewicz, Denison University; Katherine Adelsberger, Knox College; Jennifer Smith, Washington Univ

11:00 AM

278-11

Testing Mechanisms of Paleo-Environmental Change during the Latest Pleistocene, Northern Channel Islands, California
Andrew Podoll, Southern Illinois University; Nicholas Pinter, Southern Illinois University

11:15 AM

278-12

Trends and Features of Climatic Changes during the Late Quaternary Recorded in Ulaan Lake Sediments, Mongolia
Min Kyung Lee, Seoul National University; Yong Il Lee, Seoul National Univ; Hyoun Soo Lim, Korea Polar Research Institute, KORDI; Jae Il Lee, Korea Polar Research Institute, KORDI; Ho Il Yoon, Korea Polar Research Institute

11:30 AM

278-13

A Latest Holocene (4500 yr B.P. to present) Paleovegetational Record (pollen and phytolith) from Catahoula Lake, Louisiana
Rebecca Ann Tedford, Louisiana State University; Sophie Warny, Louisiana State University

11:45 AM

278-14

Implications of Glacial Fluctuations, PDO, NAO, and Sun Spot Cycles for Global Climate In the Coming Decades
Don J. Easterbrook, Western Washington Univ

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