T277 Soils as Archives of Past Climates

Wednesday, 12 October 2011
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 200FG

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  TERRESTRIAL PALEOCLIMATE FUTURES: GAMBLING ON INVESTMENTS IN MODERN ANALOGS
  Lee Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steve I. Dworkin, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  191293 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO RECONSTRUCTING GREAT PLAINS CLIMATE FROM SOIL PROPERTIES
  Ashley B. Zung, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Johannes J. Feddema, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  197988 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  INTERPRETATION OF DYNAMIC LATE QUATERNARY CLIMATE AND LANDSCAPE VARIABILITY BASED UPON PALEOSOL MACRO- AND MICROMORPHOLOGY AND STABLE ISOTOPES OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER, OWL CREEK, CENTRAL TEXAS, USA
  Holly A. Meier, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Lee Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steve I. Dworkin, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steven L. Forman, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  195350 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  CARBON ISOTOPE RATIOS IN BULK ORGANIC MATTER FROM PALEOSOLS OF THE LATE TRIASSIC CHINLE FORMATION, PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA, USA
  Steve I. Dworkin, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Lee Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Stacy Atchley, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  197349 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  ORGANIC CARBON ISOTOPIC RECONSTRUCTION OF C3/C4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SANTA MARíA BASIN, NORTHWEST ARGENTINA
  Jennifer M. Cotton, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Ethan Hyland, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Nathan Sheldon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  195593 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  OXYGEN ISOTOPES IN SOIL NITRATE: A NEW PROXY FOR PALEO-PRECIPITATION IN ARID ENVIRONMENTS?
  Greg Michalski, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Fan Wang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Ji-Hye Seo, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  197746 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  PEDOGENIC INDEX OF PALEO-PRECIPITATION IN TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS
  Sara Morón, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and David L. Fox, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Benjamin L. Turner, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, N/A and Maria Camila Vallejo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, N/A and Camilo Montes, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Jonathan I. Bloch, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  195573 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  PEDOGENIC IRON OXIDES, SOIL WATER BALANCE, AND CLIMATE
  Ramon Egli, Geophysics, Munchen, N/A and Maria Julia Orgeira, Geology, Buenos Aires, N/A
  196472 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  SIX MILLION YEARS OF TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL HISTORY ON THE CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU: EVIDENCE FROM A NOVEL APPLICATION OF TWO MAGNETIC GRAIN SIZE PROXY PARAMETERS TO THE CHINESE LOESS RECORD
  Junsheng Nie, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, N/A and Yougui Song, Institute of Earth Environment, Xian, N/A and J.W. King, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Xiaomin Fang, Beijing, N/A
  194357 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  THE OVERLOOKED SOIL-FORMING FACTORS: DISTINGUISHING INFLUENCES OF SOIL AGE AND HYDROLOGY FROM CLIMATE INFLUENCES ON VERTISOLS, AND APPLICATIONS TO INTERPRETING PALEOSOLS
  Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Lee C. Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Jason S. Mintz, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Amelia C. Robinson, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co, Houston, TX and Wesley L. Miller, Victoria, TX
  190196 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  PERMAFROST AND THE CLIMATE FINGERPRINT IN SOILS
  Stepanie Ewing, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and Jonathan O'Donnell, US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO
  196257 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  EFFECT OF FIRE ON THE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF LOESSIC SOILS
  Christoph Geiss, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
  194566 (Technical Sessions)