T206 Late Quaternary of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin: Climate Change, Sea-Level Change, and the Depositional Record

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

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  Development of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf and Coastal Zone as a Result of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sea Level Rise
  Charles W. Holmes, Environchron, Bradenton, FL
  146525 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  Cosmogenic 10Be-Derived Sediment Yields to the Western Gulf of Mexico Over Multiple Glacial-Interglacial Cycles
  Alan J. Hidy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and John Gosse, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS
  152158 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  Optical Chronology of Late Pleistocene Strata In the Lower Mississippi Valley: Implications for Fluvial Response to Relative Sea-Level Change
  Zhixiong Shen, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Barbara Mauz, University of Salzburg, Salzburg
  145405 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  The Lower Mississippi Valley during the Last Glacial Period: Meltwater Discharge, Sea-Level Change, and Lingering Effects on Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Coast
  Mike Blum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Tammy Rittenour, Utah State University, Logan, UT and Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
  151014 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  Evolution of the Holocene Alluvial Belts of the Lower Mississippi River Using Empirically Derived Palaeohydrology Equations
  Eric W. Prokocki, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Michael D. Blum, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  152130 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  A Geomorphic Process-Response Model for the Mississippi River Chenier Plain, USA: Did Higher-Than-Present Stands of Holocene Sea Level Play a Role?
  Randolph A. McBride, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and Mark R. Byrnes, Mashpee, MA and Matthew J. Taylor, University of Denver, Denver, CO
  152133 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  Centennial-Millennial Scale Stability of a Large Gas-Hydrate Field in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Investigating Linkages to Climate Change and Slope Erosion
  Wesley C. Ingram, University of North Carolina, Chapel HIll, Chapel Hill, NC and Stephen Meyers, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Charlotte Brunner, Univ of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS and Christopher Martens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
  151573 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  Fluvial Response to Climate and Sea–Level Change: An Example of Falling Stage and Lowstand Fluvial Deposition from the Late Quaternary Trinity River Incised Valley, Texas Gulf Coast
  Matthew G. Garvin, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Mike Blum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  148891 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  Fluvial Sediment Supply in a Cool Lowstand World: Modeling Results for the Late Quaternary Gulf of Mexico Passive Margin
  Jill Hattier-Womack, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Mike Blum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  152004 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:05 PM
  Quantifying Episodic Sediment Flux and Redistribution during the Previous Transgression, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Shelf
  K.T. Milliken, Rice University, Houston, TX and John B. Anderson, Rice University, Houston, TX and Robert Weight, Rice University, Houston, TX
  150016 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  Long-term subsidence and compaction rates: a new model for the Michoud area, south Louisiana
  Clint H. Edrington, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Michael D. Blum, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Jeffrey A. Nunn, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Jeffrey Hanor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  144286 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  Investigating Modern and Historical Sediment Accretion in a Deltaic Marsh (Louisiana) Using Radiocarbon Geochronology
  Rebekah Perkins, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Jaye E. Cable, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Harry Roberts, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA
  150504 (Technical Sessions)