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

T19. Loess and Loess Soils

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

 

Randall Schaetzl and Mark Sweeney, Advocates
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:05 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, 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, soils@msu.edu, soils@msu.edu
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8:20 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, (2)Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin, 160 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St, Madison, WI 53706, jacobsp@mail.uww.edu, jacobsp@mail.uww.edu
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8:35 AM
The Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Central Wisconsin Loess Sheet
STANLEY, Kristine, Geography, Michigan State University, 128 Geography Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 and SCHAETZL, Randall, Geography, Michigan State University, 673 Auditorium Road, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, loess@msu.edu, loess@msu.edu
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8:50 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 III, E. Arthur2, 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, (2)Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, (3)USGS, Denver Federal Center, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225, (4)US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192, dmuhs@usgs.gov, dmuhs@usgs.gov
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9:05 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, 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, helainem@usgs.gov, helainem@usgs.gov
 
9:20 AM
Break
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9:35 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, (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, christoph.geiss@trincoll.edu, christoph.geiss@trincoll.edu
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9:50 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, 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, mason@geography.wisc.edu, mason@geography.wisc.edu
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10:05 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 and MASON, Joseph A., Department of Geography, Univ of Wisconsin, 160 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St, Madison, WI 53706, wcj@ku.edu, wcj@ku.edu
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10:20 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, 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, mark.sweeney@usd.edu, mark.sweeney@usd.edu
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10:35 AM
Climatic Inferences from Paleozoic Loessite
SOREGHAN, Michael1, SOREGHAN, Gerilyn1, HAMILTON, Michael2 and GEHRELS, George E.3, (1)Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, (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, lsoreg@ou.edu, lsoreg@ou.edu
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