2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Session No. 225 Wednesday, 31 October 2007
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 406

T57. Quaternary Deposits in Arid Lands: Rates and Processes

Jeffrey Pigati and Jason Rech, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
225-11:30 PM CALIBRATION OF TERRESTRIAL COSMIC-RAY-PRODUCED NUCLIDES: CRONUS: CAFFEE, M.W., Department of Physics, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Ave, W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1396, mcaffee@physics.purdue.edu, BALCO, G., Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, FINKEL, R.C., CAMS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, JULL, A.J.T., Arizona AMS Laboratory, Univ of Arizona, 1118 East Fourth St, Tucson, AZ AZ 85721, KURZ, M., Clark Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Rd, Woods Hole, MA 02543, LIFTON, N., Geosciences Department, Univ of Arizona, 1118 East Fourth St, Tucson, AZ AZ 85721, MCGEE, S., Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, 801 leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, NISHIIZUMI, K., Space Sciences laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, PHILLIPS, F.M., Earth and Environmental Science Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Pl, Socorro, NM 97801-4696, and SCHAEFER, Y., Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964
225-21:45 PM NAMIBIA: INTERESTING LANDSCAPES BUT MONOTONOUS EROSION RATES: NICHOLS, Kyle K.1, BIERMAN, Paul R.2, MATMON, Ari3, ENZEL, Yehouda3, LARSEN, Jennifer4, and FINKEL, Robert C.5, (1) Department of Geosciences, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, knichols@skidmore.edu, (2) Geology Department and School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, (3) Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel, (4) Department of Geology, University of Vermont, Delehanty Hall, 180 Colchester Ave, Burlington, VT 05405, (5) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 94550
225-32:00 PM DISCORDANT COSMOGENIC AND U-SERIES AGES FOR A LATE-PLEISTOCENE ALLUVIAL FAN OFFSET BY THE SOUTHERN SAN ANDREAS FAULT: SHARP, Warren D.1, FLETCHER, Kathryn E.2, KENDRICK, Katherine J.3, BEHR, Whitney M.4, HUDNUT, Kenneth R.3, and HANKS, Thomas C.5, (1) Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709, wsharp@bgc.org, (2) Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, (3) U.S. Geological Survey, 525 S. Wilson Ave, Pasadena, CA 91106, (4) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, (5) United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, 94025
225-42:15 PM PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE VARIATION IDENTIFIED BY ION-MICROPROBE DATING OF VADOSE-ZONE OPAL, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA, USA: PACES, J.B., U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, jbpaces@usgs.gov, NEYMARK, L.A., U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046, WOODEN, J.L., U.S. Geological Survey, Stanford-USGS Micro Analysis Center, Stanford, CA 94305, and LUND, S.P., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
225-52:30 PM U-PB DATING OF OPAL IN DEEPLY BURIED SOILS, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA, USING SECONDARY-ION MASS SPECTROMETRY: NEYMARK, Leonid A., US Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Mailbox 25046, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225-0046, lneymark@usgs.gov, PACES, James B., U.S. Geol Survey, Box 25046, MS963, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046, WOODEN, Joseph L., U.S.G.S.-Stanford Ion Microprobe Laboratory, Green Building, Rm 89, 367 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305-2220, and BUESCH, David C., U.S. Geological Survey, 1180 N Town Center Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89144-6363
225-62:45 PM LUMINESCENCE DATING IN QUATERNARY GEOLOGY: ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS: FUCHS, Markus, Geology Department, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, markus.fuchs@uni-bayreuth.de
225-73:00 PM CALCULATING THE RATE OF DEPOSITION AS INTERPRETED BY LUMINESCENCE DATING FOR SELECTED LATE PLEISTOCENE GROUND-WATER DISCHARGE DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA: MAHAN, Shannon A., U.S. Geol Survey, Box 25046, MS 974, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, smahan@usgs.gov and PIGATI, Jeffrey, Geologic Division, U.S. Geological Survey, 520 N. Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719
 3:15 PM Break
225-83:30 PM GROUNDWATER-FED WETANDS AS AN ARCHIVE OF MILANKOVITCH AND MILLENNIAL-SCALE CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN ARID EAST AFRICA: ASHLEY, Gail M., Geological Sciences, Rutgers Univ, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066, gmashley@rci.rutgers.edu, GOMAN, Michelle F., Dept. of Earth and Atmos. Sci, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853, PARK, Lisa E., Department of Geology, The University of Akron, 252 Buchtel Commons, Crouse Hall, Akron, OH 44325-4101, OWEN, R. Bernhart, Dept of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist Univ, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China, and ROURE-JOHNSON, Cara A., Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, U-2176, Storrs, CT 06269
225-93:45 PM PALEOWETLAND DEPOSITS AS PALEOCLIMATE RECORDERS GLOBALLY AND IN THE ATACAMA DESERT: QUADE, Jay, Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, quadej@email.arizona.edu, RECH, Jason, Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, BETANCOURT, Julio, US Geological Survey, 1675 West Anklam Raod, Tucson, AZ 87505, and LATORRE, Claudio, CASEB-Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 114D, Chile
225-104:00 PM THE RESOLUTION OF IN-STREAM WETLAND DEPOSITS AS PALEOCLIMATIC PROXY RECORDS: RECH, Jason A., Department of Geology, Miami University, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, rechja@muohio.edu, QUADE, Jay, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, LATORRE, Claudio, CASEB/Departmento de Ecologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, & Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Casilla 653, Santiago, 6513677, Chile, and BETANCOURT, Julio L., U.S. Geol Survey, 1645 W. Anklam Rd, Tucson, AZ 85745
225-114:15 PM HOLOCENE MEGA-DROUGHTS IN THE CENTRAL ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE: TULLY, Craig D. and RECH, Jason A., Department of Geology, Miami University, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, tullycd@muohio.edu
225-124:30 PM OSTRACODES AND FOSSIL GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE DEPOSITS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: BRIGHT, Jordon, Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, jordon.bright@nau.edu
225-134:45 PM RADIOCARBON DATING OF NORTH AMERICAN TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS: PIGATI, Jeffrey S., Geologic Division, U.S. Geological Survey, 520 N. Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719, jpigati@usgs.gov, RECH, Jason, Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, and NEKOLA, Jeffrey A., Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, 167 Castetter Hall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
225-145:00 PM AGE CONSTRAINTS AND PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM PLUVIAL EVENT IN THE JORDAN VALLEY FROM WADI HASA, JORDAN: WINER, Emily R., Geology, Miami University, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, winerer@muohio.edu, RECH, Jason, Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, COINMAN, Nancy R., Anthropology, Iowa State University, 324 Curtiss, Ames, IA 50011, and PIGATI, Jeffrey, Geologic Division, U.S. Geological Survey, 520 N. Park Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85719
225-155:15 PM RECOGNITION OF LATE JURASSIC CARBONATE WETLANDS AND LAKES FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION (COLORADO): DUNAGAN, Stan, Geology, Geography, and Physics, The University of Tennessee at Martin, 215 Joseph E. Johnson EPS Bldg, Martin, TN 38238-5039, sdunagan@utm.edu

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