T120 Using Buried Soils to Reconstruct Past Climates: Opportunities and Considerations

Monday, 5 November 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
207BC

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  ABRUPT ECO-CLIMATE TRANSITIONS DURING PRE-CLOVIS OCCUPATION IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S
  Lee Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Michael R. Waters, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Steven L. Forman, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and C. Britt Bousman, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX and Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  208301 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  LATE QUATERNARY ALLUVIAL HISTORY OF THE OWL CREEK DRAINAGE BASIN: A GEOMORPHIC RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  Holly A. Meier, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Lee C. Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steven L. Forman, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  209363 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  SPELEOTHEM MICROMORPHOLOGY IMPROVES INTERPRETATIONS OF FLOODPLAIN PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS AND ENHANCES INTERPRETATIONS OF THE TIMING AND STRUCTURE OF THE MID-HOLOCENE WARM PERIOD
  Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Zheng-Hua Li, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL and Hai Cheng, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Gary E. Stinchcomb, Baylor University, Waco, TX and James J. Kocis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Sally P. Horn, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN and Mathew S. Boehm, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  208127 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  BIOSILICATE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BRADY SOIL IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA: THE IMPORTANCE OF NON-SHORT CELL PHYTOLITHS FOR PALEOCLIMATE INTERPRETATIONS
  Terri L. Woodburn, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Steven R. Bozarth, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and William C. Johnson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Alan F. Halfen, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  209527 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  INFERRING AGE AND PALEOCLIMATE FROM A HILLSLOPE PALEOSOL-- A CAUTIONARY TALE FROM THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO
  David P. Dethier, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Matthias Leopold, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan and Jörg Völkel, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, N/A and Alex E. Blum, Boulder, CO and Juliane Huber, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, N/A and Markus Steffens, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, N/A
  212404 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  RECONSTRUCTING MESO AND MICRO SCALE CLIMATE PATTERNS FROM HOLOCENE BURIED SOILS
  E. Arthur Bettis, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  209891 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  BURIED STEPPE SOILS IN S ITALY: A RECORD OF LAST GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS
  Daniela Sauer, University of Technology, Dresden, N/A and Riyad Al-Sharif, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, N/A and Lisa Zwanzig, University of Technology, Dresden, N/A and Helmut Brückner, University of Cologne, Cologne, N/A and Fabio Scarciglia, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), N/A and Karl Stahr, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, N/A
  211149 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  FIRST AMERICANS ARCHAEOLOGY AND CLIMATE: SOIL CHEMISTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR GEOARCHAEOLOGY IN CENTRAL ALASKA
  Lyndsay DiPietro, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX and G.E. Stinchcomb, Baylor University, Waco, TX and K.E. Graf, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and T. Goebel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and A.M. Younie, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and T.E. Gillispie, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Fairbanks, AK
  211603 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  SEEKING CONSTRAINTS ON THE CLIMATE OF EARLY MARS FROM THE MINERALOGY OF ANCIENT SOILS PRESERVED AT MAWRTH VALLIS
  Briony Horgan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Janice Bishop, SETI Institute & NASA-Ames Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, CA and Philip R. Christensen, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and James F. Bell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  210022 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  APPLYING A QUANTITATIVE METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING LATE-QUATERNARY CLIMATE ON THE U.S. GREAT PLAINS BASED ON BURIED SOIL PROPERTIES
  Ashley B. Zung, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Rolfe Mandel, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Johannes J. Feddema, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  213046 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  INFERRING LATE-QUATERNARY FLOOD MAGNITUDES FROM BURIED ALLUVIAL PALEOSOLS IN THE CENTRAL GREAT PLAINS, USA
  Rolfe Mandel, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  213182 (Technical Sessions)