38 Deserts Over the Last 100,000 Years (Posters)

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  REGIONAL PATTERNS IN THE LATE QUATERNARY PALAEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
  Michael E Meadows, Univ of Cape Town, Cape Town, N/A
  52499 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR LARGE PALEOFLOODS DURING LATE OXYGEN ISOTOPE STAGE 3 FROM NAHAL NETAFIM CATCHMENT, NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL
  Noam Greenbaum, Univ of Haifa, Haifa, N/A and Naomi Porat, Israel Geol Survey, Jerusalem, N/A and Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, N/A
  52765 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  RESPONSE OF DESERT OUTWASH SURFACES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES DURING THE LAST 55 000 YEARS
  Farhan Al-Juaidi, Currently, Leicester Univ, Leicester, N/A and Sue McLaren, Currently, Leicester Univ, Leicester, N/A and Andrew Millington, Leicester Univ, Leicester, N/A
  53359 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR A WARM AND HUMID CLIMATE PERIOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE ARID ZONES OF NORTHWEST CHINA DURING 2.2-1.8 KABP
  Bao Yang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Rsch Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, N/A and Yafeng Shi, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Rsch Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, N/A and Achim Braeuning, Institute for Geography, Univ of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, N/A and Bao Yang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Rsch Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, N/A
  53594 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR LATE QUATERNARY PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN THE FEZZAN, SOUTHERN LIBYA
  Sue McLaren, Leicester University, Leicester, N/A and Nick Drake, King's College, London, N/A and Kevin White, Univ of Reading, Reading, N/A
  53828 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  GEOLOGIC, ECOLOGIC, CLIMATIC, AND LAND-USE INTERACTIONS IN THE HIGH DESERT OF THE CENTRAL COLORADO PLATEAU (USA)—THE PAST 40,000 YEARS
  Richard L. Reynolds, U. S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Jayne Belnap, United States Geological Survey, Moab, UT and Marith Cady Reheis, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Jason Neff, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Harland Goldstein, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and James Yount, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Yarrow Axford, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Helen Roberts, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth and Mark Miller, National Park Service, Moab, UT and Robert Sanford, Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO
  53839 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE AMBOY 1:100,000-SCALE QUADRANGLE, CALIFORNIA
  David R. Bedford, Menlo Park, CA and David M. Miller, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Geoffrey A. Phelps, USGS, Menlo Park, CA
  53889 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE MESQUITE LAKE 1:100,000-SCALE QUADRANGLE, CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
  Kevin M. Schmidt, U. S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Matthew McMackin, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA
  53896 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  TIMING AND DURATION OF LATE QUATERNARY ARID EPISODES IN THE KALAHARI: RESOLVING UNCERTAINTIES IN THE DATED AEOLIAN RECORD
  David S.G. Thomas, Univ of Sheffield, Sheffield, N/A and Matt Telfer, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, N/A and Mark D. Bateman, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, N/A
  53987 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS OF TÉNÉRÉ, ERG OF TÉNÉRÉ AND ERG OF FACHI BILMA (CENTRAL SAHARA): NEW IMPLICATIONS FROM PALAEOECOLOGICAL DATA
  Roland Baumhauer, Univ of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, N/A and Peter Felix-Henningsen, Univ of Gießen, Gießen, N/A
  54008 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE QUATERNARY GEOMORPHIC HISTORY OF UPLAND VALLEYS ON THE MARGIN OF THE AUSTRALIAN DESERT
  Patricia C. Fanning, Macquarie Univ, Sydney, N/A
  54145 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  THE SPEED AND HISTORY OF PIEDMONT SEDIMENT
  Kyle K. Nichols, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY and Paul Bierman, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Martha C. Eppes, Univ of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, NC and Marc Caffee, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA and Robert Finkel, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA and Jennifer Larsen, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT
  54190 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  SANDSTONE KARST AND PALAEO-SANDSTONE WAETHERING - ITS PALAEOENVIROMENTAL IMPLICATION AND HOLOCENE IMPACT ON GROUNDWATER FLOW
  Barbara Sponholz, Univ of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, N/A
  54202 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF THE IVANPAH 1:100,000-SCALE QUADRANGLE, CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
  David M. Miller, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  54240 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  AEOLIAN ACTIVITIES IN SEMI-ARID CHINA: COMBINING MODERN ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES WITH PALEOECOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
  Hongyan Liu, Peking Univ, Beijing, N/A
  54405 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  PRESERVATION OF HOLOCENE WIND VECTORS BY VEGETATION AND VENTIFACTS IN AN EOLIAN SAND SYSTEM, NORTHERN COACHELLA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, USA
  Peter G. Griffiths, U.S. Geol Survey, Tucson, AZ and Robert H. Webb, US Geol Survey, Tucson, AZ and Muth Alan, Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Rsch Ctr, Palm Desert, CA and Mark Fisher, Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Rsch Ctr, Palm Desert, CA and Cameron W. Barrows, Ctr for Nat Lands Mgnt, Thousand Palms, CA and Nicholas Lancaster, Desert Rsch Institute, Reno, NV
  54520 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  EL NIÑO AND RAINFALL VARIABILITY IN THE KALAHARI, SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1840-1900
  David J. Nash, Univ of Brighton, Brighton, N/A and Georgina H. Endfield, Univ of Nottingham, Nottingham, N/A
  54891 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE QUATERNARY VALLEY CALCRETES IN THE KALAHARI
  David J. Nash, Univ of Brighton, Brighton, N/A and Sue J. McLaren, Univ of Leicester, Leicester, N/A
  54902 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  QUATERNARY GEOMORPHIC SYSTEMS AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION IN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS REGION, WEST TEXAS AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO, USA
  Paul R Rindfleisch, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and Vatche Tchakerian, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and Jeffrey L Given, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and David Wilkins, Boise State Univ, Boise, ID
  55097 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  DISTRIBUTION OF SAND DUNE SPACING, CREST LENGTH, AND DEFECT DENSITY IN SIMPLE, COMPOUND, AND COMPLEX DUNE FIELDS
  Ryan Ewing, Univ of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX and Carrie Beveridge, Univ of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX and Gary Kocurek, Univ of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX
  55192 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  HYDROCLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE EASTERN SAHARA: THE LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC RECORD FROM UMM AKHTAR PLAYA, SOUTHERN EGYPT
  Kathleen Nicoll, Univ of Oxford, Oxford, N/A
  55303 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE QUATENARY CLIMATIC CHANGE IN NW-NAMIBIA: SEDIMENTOLOGIC, PEDOLOGIC AND ARCHEOBOTANIC EVIDENCE
  Ernst Brunotte, Univ of Cologne, Cologne, N/A and Barbara Eichhorn, Heinrich Barth Institut, Cologne, N/A and Heinz Sander, Univ of Cologne, Cologne, N/A
  55517 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  EOLIAN CHRONOLOGY AND PALEOWIND VECTORS IN THE NORTHERN RUB AL KHALI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
  Nicholas Lancaster, Desert Rsch Institute, Reno, NV and Ashok Singhvi, Physical Rsch Lab, Ahmedabad, N/A and James T. Teller, Univ of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB and Ken Glennie, Ballater, N/A and V.P. Pandey, Physical Rsch Lab, Ahmedabad, N/A
  55809 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  SPELEOTHEM RECORDS REVEAL ABRUPT CLIMATE VARIATIONS IN THE ARID SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES OVER THE LAST GLACIAL CYCLE
  Jennifer D. M. Wagner, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Julia E. Cole, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and J. Warren Beck, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and P. Jonathan Patchett, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Bill Peachey, Colossal Cave Mountain Park, Vail, AZ
  55842 (SYMPOSIA)
• 1:30 PM
  RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC AND BASE-LEVEL CHANGE ON THE LATE QUATERNARY EVOLUTION OF ALLUVIAL FANS IN THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN, NEVADA, USA
  Adrian Harvey, Univ of Liverpool, Liverpool, N/A
  56050 (SYMPOSIA)