2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
Session No. 336 Thursday, 9 October 2008
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, George R. Brown Convention Center: 332BE

T19. Loess and Loess Soils

Randall Schaetzl and Mark Sweeney, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
336-18:05 AM New Sources for the Glacigenic Loess of the Midwestern United States: SCHAETZL, Randall J., Geography, Michigan State University, 128 Geography Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, soils@msu.edu, LOOPE, Walter, US Geological Survey, P.O. Box 40, N8391 Sand Point Road, Munising, MI 49862, and STANLEY, Kristine, Geography, Michigan State University, 19 Geography Building, East Lansing, MI 48824
336-28:20 AM A Model for the Source and Distribution of Loess on the Green Bay Lobe Land Surface, WI: JACOBS, Peter M.1, POLK, Carlene E.1, and MASON, Joseph A.2, (1) Geography and Geology, Univ of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 800 West Main St, Whitewater, WI 63190, jacobsp@mail.uww.edu, (2) Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin, 160 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St, Madison, WI 53706
336-38:35 AM The Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Central Wisconsin Loess Sheet: STANLEY, Kristine, Geography, Michigan State University, 128 Geography Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, loess@msu.edu and SCHAETZL, Randall, Geography, Michigan State University, 128 Geog Bldg, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
336-48:50 AM New Isotopic Evidence from Zircons and K-Feldspars for the Sources of Upper Mississippi River Valley Loess during the Last Glacial Period: MUHS, Daniel R.1, SIMMONS, Kathleen R.1, BETTIS, E. Arthur III2, ALEINIKOFF, John N.3, SKIPP, G.L.1, FISHER, Eric1, and MCGEEHIN, John P.4, (1) U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980, Box 25046, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, dmuhs@usgs.gov, (2) Geoscience, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, (3) U.S. Geological Survey, MS 963, DFC, Denver, CO 80225, (4) US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192
336-59:05 AM The Sangamon paleosol in and adjacent to the Lower Mississippi Valley: MARKEWICH, Helaine W., U.S. Geological Survey, 3039 Amwiler Road, Suite 130, Peachtree Business Center, Atlanta, GA 30360-2824, helainem@usgs.gov, PAVICH, Milan J., U.S. Geol Survey, MS926a, Reston, VA 20192, and WYSOCKI, Douglas A., National Soil Survey Center, USDA-NRCS, 100 Centennial Mall North, Room 152, MS 34, Lincoln, NE 68508
 9:20 AM Break
336-69:35 AM Paleoprecipitation Reconstructions for the Brady Soil Based on Rock-Magnetic Analyses: GEISS, Christoph E.1, SHAKYA, Pooja2, QUINTON, Emily2, JOHNSON, William C.3, and MASON, Joseph4, (1) Physics, Trinity College, McCook Hall 105, 300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106, christoph.geiss@trincoll.edu, (2) Environmental Sciences, Trinity College, 300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06109, (3) Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045, (4) Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 160 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St, Madison, WI 53706
336-79:50 AM Formation of a Thick A_Horizon through Aggradational Pedogenesis In the Buried Brady Soil, Central Great Plains: MASON, Joseph A., Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 160 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St, Madison, WI 53706, mason@geography.wisc.edu, JOHNSON, William C., Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, MIAO, Xiaodong, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL 61820, JACOBS, Peter M., Department of Geography and Geology, Univ of Wisc-Whitewater, 800 W. Main St, Whitewater, WI 5310, and GOBLE, Ronald J., Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340
336-810:05 AM Chemostratigraphy of the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Transition In the Central Great Plains: JOHNSON, William C., Dept. of Geography, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045, wcj@ku.edu and MASON, Joseph A., Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin, 160 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St, Madison, WI 53706
336-910:20 AM Using Soils, Tephras, and Luminescence to Reveal the Holocene Record of Loess in the Pacific Northwest: SWEENEY, Mark R., Department of Earth Sciences and Physics, University of South Dakota, 201 Akeley-Lawrence Science Center, Vermillion, SD 57069, mark.sweeney@usd.edu, GAYLORD, David, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Webster Hall 1228, Pullman, WA 99164, and BUSACCA, Alan, Vinitas Consultants, LLC, Hygene, CO 80533
336-1010:35 AM Climatic Inferences from Paleozoic Loessite: SOREGHAN, Michael1, SOREGHAN, Gerilyn1, HAMILTON, Michael2, and GEHRELS, George3, (1) Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, lsoreg@ou.edu, (2) Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory, Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3B1, Canada, (3) Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

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