T22 Rocky Mountains I: Geologic Records of Paleoelevation

Sunday, 27 October 2002
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  ESTIMATING PALEOALTITUDE FROM FOSSIL PLANTS: SOURCES OF ERROR
  Jack A. Wolfe, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  40204 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  THE NEOGENE ELEVATION OF SOUTHERN TIBET AS DETERMINED BY FOLIAR PHYSIOGNOMY
  Robert A. Spicer, The Open Univ, Milton Keynes, N/A and Nigel B.W. Harris, The Open Univ, Milton Keynes, N/A and Mike Widdowson, The Open Univ, Milton Keynes, N/A and Alexei B. Herman, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, N/A and Shuangxing Guo, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, N/A and Paul J. Valdes, Univ of Reading, Reading, N/A and Jack A. Wolfe, Univ of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ and Simon P. Kelley, The Open Univ, Milton Keynes, N/A
  44040 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  A NOVEL CO2 PARTIAL PRESSURE-BASED METHOD OF ESTIMATING PALEO-ELEVATION FROM FOSSIL PLANTS
  Jennifer C. McElwain, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
  37301 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  STABLE ISOTOPE BASED PALEOALTIMETRY AND PALEOHYPSOMETRY
  David B. Rowley, The Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  44437 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  REFINING THE CALIBRATION OF STABLE ISOTOPE PALEO-ELEVATION STUDIES: LESSONS AND STRATEGIES FROM MODERN PRECIPITATION PATTERNS
  David L. Dettman, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  40728 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  CARBONATE OXYGEN ISOTOPE PALEOALTIMETRY: CALIBRATING d18O VS. ALTITUDE GRADIENTS AND QUANTIFYING THE ASSOCIATED ERRORS
  Carmala N. Garzione, Univ of Rochester, Rochester, NY and Julie C. Libarkin, Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
  43532 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  THE ISOTOPIC RAIN SHADOW OF THE SOUTHERN PATAGONIAN ANDES: IMPLICATIONS FOR STABLE ISOTOPE PALEOALTIMETRY
  Libby A. Stern, The Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Peter M. Blisniuk, Universität Potsdam, N/A
  42684 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  CENOZOIC TOPOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
  C. Page Chamberlain, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Derek Sjostrom, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Mike Poage, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Travis Horton, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA
  45071 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  LOW LARAMIDE RELIEF INFERRED BY AN INTER-BASINAL COMPARISON OF OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS FROM BIOGENIC MINERALS
  Henry C. Fricke, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  46028 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  PALEOELEVATION RECORDED IN VESICULAR BASALTS
  Dork Sahagian, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH and Alex Proussevitch, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
  40935 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  COSMOGENIC NOBLE GASES AS POTENTIAL PALEOALTIMETERS
  Julie C. Libarkin, Sci Education Dept, Cambridge, MA and Kim B. Knight, Univ of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Paul R. Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Kenneth A. Farley, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA
  43544 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  RECONSTRUCTING PALEOELEVATION USING A DECONVOLUTION OF ERODED SEDIMENTS
  Frank J. Pazzaglia, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA and Mark T. Brandon, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  44939 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  HOW HIGH WERE THE ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS?
  G.S. Soreghan, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael J. Soreghan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Cortland F. Eble, Kentucky Geol Survey, Lexington, KY
  42865 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  LATE CENOZOIC GLACIAL EROSION AND EXHUMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOELEVATION OF THE CENTRAL ANDES AND LHASA
  Jon D. Pelletier, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  39889 (Technical Sessions)