T208 Lakes, Playas, and Soils

Monday, 6 October 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  Vertical and Lateral Variability in Paleosols and Ichnofossils of the Late Pennsylvanian Monongahela Group, Southeast Ohio: Local Complexity and Regional Patterns
  Daniel I. Hembree, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  148678 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  Paleosol Morphology and Geochemistry as Indicators of Changing Paleoenvironments in the Triassic-Jurassic Hartford Basin, Connecticut, USA
  Cynthia A. Stiles, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE and Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  148849 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  Response of Early Jurassic Paleosols to Environmental Changes in the Hartford Basin, Connecticut
  Peter Drzewiecki, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT and Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  151907 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  Pedofacies in a Fluvial/deltaic Succession, Wilkins Peak Member in the Green River Formation, Wyoming
  Kuwanna Dyer Pietras, BP America Inc, Houston, TX and Alan Carroll, Univ Wisconsin - MadisonDepartment of Geoscience, Madison, AZ and Cynthia A. Stiles, USDA - NRCS, Lincoln, NE
  149602 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  Terminal Infill of Eocene Lake Gosiute, Wyoming
  Lauren M. Chetel, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Alan R. Carroll, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  147719 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  Lacustrine Deposits within the Eocene-Oligocene White River Group of South Dakota and Nebraska: Tools for Interpreting Regional Stratigraphic Relationships, Climate Change, and Sedimentation
  Dennis O. Terry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  150709 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  Discrimination of Multiple Authigenic Clay Phases: Coupled Mineralogy and Geochemistry In Pliocene Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania
  Daniel Deocampo, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA and Javier Cuadros, Natural History Museum, London, N/A and T. Wing-Dudek, Natural History Museum, London, N/A and J. Olives, CINaM-CNRS, Marseille, N/A and M. Amouric, CINaM-CNRS, Marseille, N/A
  146209 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  An 8900-Year-Old Spruce Forest Buried by Lake Superior: Paleoecological and Lake-Level Implications
  Matthew Boyd, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON and James T. Teller, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
  145742 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  Carbon Concentrations and Stable Carbon Isotopes as Indicators for Wet and Dry Phases of Paleo-Lake Mababe, Botswana: Providing International Research Experience for Students
  Kristi Teter, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Eliot A. Atekwana, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Anna Cruse, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Estella Atekwana, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Jennifer Gamrod, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  150338 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  Soil Development, Pluvial Lakes, Alluvial Fans, and Quaternary Faults in Newark Valley, Central Nevada
  Joanna L. Redwine, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV and Bud Burke, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
  152182 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  Holocene Non-Deposition In Bristol Dry Lake, California, Inferred from Adjacent Alluvial Fan Sequences
  Michael R. Rosen, US Geological Survey, Carson City, NV and David M. Miller, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  144436 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  Inferring Vegetation and Climate from Playa Phytolith Assemblages
  Alan F. Halfen, Univ of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Glen Fredlund, Univ of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Jame H. Mayer, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Vance T. Holliday, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  148641 (Technical Sessions)