2002 Denver Annual Meeting (October 27-30, 2002)

Session No. 22
Sunday, 27 October 2002: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

T72. Rocky Mountains I: Geologic Records of Paleoelevation

 

Henry Fricke, Advocates
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8:00 AM
ESTIMATING PALEOALTITUDE FROM FOSSIL PLANTS: SOURCES OF ERROR
WOLFE, Jack A., Univ Arizona, 1040 E 4th St, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, jwolfe@geo.arizona.edu, jwolfe@geo.arizona.edu
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8:15 AM
THE NEOGENE ELEVATION OF SOUTHERN TIBET AS DETERMINED BY FOLIAR PHYSIOGNOMY
SPICER, Robert A.1, HARRIS, Nigel B.W.1, WIDDOWSON, Mike1, HERMAN, Alexei B.2, GUO, Shuangxing3, VALDES, Paul J.4, WOLFE, Jack A.5 and KELLEY, Simon P.1, (1)Department of Earth Sciences, The Open Univ, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom, (2)Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 7 Pyzhevskii Pereulok, Moscow, 119107, Russia, (3)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China, (4)Department of Meteorology, Univ of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, P.O.Box 243, Reading, RG6 2AU, United Kingdom, (5)Desert Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85721, r.a.spicer@open.ac.uk, r.a.spicer@open.ac.uk
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8:30 AM
A NOVEL CO2 PARTIAL PRESSURE-BASED METHOD OF ESTIMATING PALEO-ELEVATION FROM FOSSIL PLANTS
MCELWAIN, Jennifer C., Department of Geology, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, mcelwain@fmnh.org, mcelwain@fmnh.org
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8:45 AM
STABLE ISOTOPE BASED PALEOALTIMETRY AND PALEOHYPSOMETRY
ROWLEY, David B., Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, rowley@geosci.uchicago.edu, rowley@geosci.uchicago.edu
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9:00 AM
REFINING THE CALIBRATION OF STABLE ISOTOPE PALEO-ELEVATION STUDIES: LESSONS AND STRATEGIES FROM MODERN PRECIPITATION PATTERNS
DETTMAN, David L., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, dettman@geo.arizona.edu, dettman@geo.arizona.edu
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9:15 AM
CARBONATE OXYGEN ISOTOPE PALEOALTIMETRY: CALIBRATING d18O VS. ALTITUDE GRADIENTS AND QUANTIFYING THE ASSOCIATED ERRORS
GARZIONE, Carmala N., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 and LIBARKIN, Julie C., Science Education, Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St. MS-71, Cambridge, MA 02140, garzione@earth.rochester.edu, garzione@earth.rochester.edu
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9:30 AM
THE ISOTOPIC RAIN SHADOW OF THE SOUTHERN PATAGONIAN ANDES: IMPLICATIONS FOR STABLE ISOTOPE PALEOALTIMETRY
STERN, Libby A., Department of Geological Sciences, The Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1101 and BLISNIUK, Peter M., Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Postfach 601553, D14415, Germany, lstern@mail.utexas.edu, lstern@mail.utexas.edu
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9:45 AM
CENOZOIC TOPOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
CHAMBERLAIN, C. Page1, SJOSTROM, Derek2, POAGE, Mike2 and HORTON, Travis3, (1)Earth System Science, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Rm 140, Stanford, CA 94305, (2)Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, (3)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, chamb@stanford.edu, chamb@stanford.edu
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10:00 AM
LOW LARAMIDE RELIEF INFERRED BY AN INTER-BASINAL COMPARISON OF OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS FROM BIOGENIC MINERALS
FRICKE, Henry C., Geology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, hfricke@coloradocollege.edu, hfricke@coloradocollege.edu
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10:15 AM
PALEOELEVATION RECORDED IN VESICULAR BASALTS
SAHAGIAN, Dork, CCRC, EOS, & Dept.of Earth Sci, Univ of New Hampshire, 164 Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH 03824 and PROUSSEVITCH, Alex, CCRC, EOS, Univ of New Hampshire, 357 Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH 03824, dork.sahagian@unh.edu, dork.sahagian@unh.edu
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10:30 AM
COSMOGENIC NOBLE GASES AS POTENTIAL PALEOALTIMETERS
LIBARKIN, Julie C., Sci Education Dept, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138-1516, KNIGHT, Kim B., Deparment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of California-Berkeley, 301 McCone Hall, #4767, Berkeley, CA 94720, RENNE, Paul R., Berkeley Geochronology Ctr/UC Berkeley, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709 and FARLEY, Kenneth A., California Institute Technology, 1201 E California Blvd MC 170-25, Pasadena, CA 91125-0001, jlibarkin@cfa.harvard.edu, jlibarkin@cfa.harvard.edu
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10:45 AM
RECONSTRUCTING PALEOELEVATION USING A DECONVOLUTION OF ERODED SEDIMENTS
PAZZAGLIA, Frank J., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh Univ, 31 Williams, Bethlehem, PA 18015 and BRANDON, Mark T., Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, P.O. Box 208109, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, fjp3@lehigh.edu, fjp3@lehigh.edu
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11:00 AM
HOW HIGH WERE THE ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS?
SOREGHAN, G.S., School of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, OK 73019-1009, SOREGHAN, Michael J., School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, OK 73019-1009 and EBLE, Cortland F., Energy & Minerals Section, Kentucky Geol Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0107, lsoreg@ou.edu, lsoreg@ou.edu
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11:15 AM
LATE CENOZOIC GLACIAL EROSION AND EXHUMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOELEVATION OF THE CENTRAL ANDES AND LHASA
PELLETIER, Jon D., Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, 1040 E. Fourth St, Tucson, AZ 85721, jon@geo.arizona.edu, jon@geo.arizona.edu
 
11:30 AM
Discussion
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