GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017

Session No. 309
Wednesday, 25 October 2017: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 307/308 (Washington State Convention Center)

T96. Understanding African Environmental History through Continental Scientific Drilling: Past Successes and Future Opportunities

GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division
James M. Russell, Michael McGlue and Sarah Ivory, Advocates
8:00 AM
UNVEILING VICTORIA’S SECRETS
BEVERLY, Emily J., Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, BERKE, Melissa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, CASTAÑEDA, Isla, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, 611 N. Pleasant St, Morrill Science Building, Amherst, MA 01003, JOHNSON, Thomas C., Large Lakes Observatory and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812 and TRYON, Christian, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, ebeverly@umich.edu
8:15 AM
ICDP PROJECT DEEPCHALLA: RECONSTRUCTING ~250,000 YEARS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY ON THE EAST AFRICAN EQUATOR (Invited Presentation)
VERSCHUREN, Dirk1, VAN DAELE, Maarten2, WOLFF, Chris3, WALDMANN, Nicholas4, MEYER, Inka2, LANE, Christine S.5, VAN DER MEEREN, Thijs1, OMBORI, Titus6, KASANZU, Charles Happe7, OLAGO, Daniel O.8 and ICDP DEEPCHALLA, Project Members9, (1)Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L.Ledeganckstraat 35, Gent, 9000, Belgium, (2)Department of Geology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, S8 (we13), Gent, 9000, Belgium, (3)Climate Geochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, 55128, Germany, (4)Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, 31905, Israel, (5)Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, United Kingdom, (6)Department of Archaeology and History, Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa, Tanzania, United Republic of, (7)Department of Geology, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of, (8)Department of Geology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, (9)International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), Potsdam, 14482, Germany, dirk.verschuren@ugent.be
8:35 AM
SUB-DECADAL PHYTOLITH AND CHARCOAL RECORDS FROM LAKE MALAWI, EAST AFRICA, INDICATE THAT THE TOBA SUPERERUPTION AT 75 KA WAS NOT SEVERE ENOUGH TO CAUSE A HUMAN GENETIC BOTTLENECK (Invited Presentation)
YOST, Chad L., Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, JACKSON, Lily J., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2275 Speedway Stop C9000, Austin, TX 78712 – 1722, STONE, Jeffery R., Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809 and COHEN, Andrew S., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, chadyost@email.arizona.edu
8:55 AM
A ~10 MILLION YEAR HISTORY OF BASIN EVOLUTION IN LAKE TANGANYIKA RECORDED IN MULTIPLE VINTAGES OF SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA
SCHOLZ, Christopher A. and MUIRHEAD, James D., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244, cascholz@syr.edu
9:10 AM
LAKE TANGANYIKA DRILLING: ADDRESSING WORLD-CLASS SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS IN PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, TECTONICS, AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY IN AFRICA’S OLDEST LAKE
IVORY, Sarah, Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University, 4060 Smith Laboratory, Columbus, OH 43201, BARKER, Philip, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom, COHEN, Andrew S., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, KIMIREI, Ishmael, Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, TAFIRI Kigoma, Box 90, Kigoma, n/a, Tanzania, United Republic of, LANE, Christine S, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, United Kingdom, LENG, Melanie, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, MCGLUE, Michael M., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, MSAKY, Emma, TPDC, Dar es Salaam, 11111, Tanzania, United Republic of, NOREN, Anders, CSDCO / LacCore, University of Minnesota, 116 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, PARK BOUSH, Lisa E., Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, 354 Mansfield Road, Storrs, CT 06269-1045, RUSSELL, James M., Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, SALZBURGER, Walter, University of Basel, Basel, CH-4051, Switzerland and SCHOLZ, Christopher, Department of Earth Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1070, ivory.38@osu.edu
9:25 AM
TANZANIA ONSHORE PALEOGENE INTEGRATED CORING (TOPIC) (Invited Presentation)
THOMAS, Ellen1, BOWEN, Gabriel2, BERKE, Melissa3, FEAKINS, Sarah4, HUBER, Matthew5, PEARSON, Paul6 and 28 INTERNATIONAL, TOPIC Proponents6, (1)Geology and Geophysics and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Yale University and Wesleyan University, P O Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, (2)Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (3)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 156 Fitzpatrick Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, (4)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3501 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, (5)Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, 8 College Road, Durham, NH 03824, (6)School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3YE, United Kingdom, ellen.thomas@yale.edu
Handouts
  • TOPIC_GSA.pdf (16.6 MB)
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    9:45 AM
    Break
    10:00 AM
    THE HOMININ SITES AND PALEOLAKES DRILLING PROJECT (HSPDP): PROGRESS TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN EVOLUTION IN EASTERN AFRICA
    HSPDP, Team Members and COHEN, Andrew S., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, cohen@email.arizona.edu
    10:15 AM
    AN OUTCROP RECORD OF RAPID LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION IN THE PLEISTOCENE OLORGESAILIE BASIN, EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM, SOUTHERN KENYA
    BEHRENSMEYER, Anna K., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, NHB-121, Washington, DC 20013-7012, POTTS, R., Human Origins Program, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB 112, Washington, DC 20560-0112 and DEINO, Alan, Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Berkeley, CA 94709, behrensa@si.edu
    10:30 AM
    U-TH DISEQUILIBRIUM DATING OF LAKE MAGADI CHERTS
    LOWENSTEIN, Tim K.1, LUO, Shangde2, LEET, Kennie3, MCNULTY, Emma P.1, OWEN, R. Bernhart4, SHEN, Chuan-Chou5, RENAUT, Robin W.6, COHEN, Andrew S.7, RABIDEAUX, Nathan M.8, DEOCAMPO, Daniel M.8, MUIRURI, Veronica M.4 and DEINO, Alan9, (1)Department of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, (2)Earth Sciences, National Cheng-Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan, 701, Taiwan, (3)State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Geological Sciences, Binghamton, NY 13902, (4)Dept. of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, (5)Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, (6)Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada, (7)Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (8)Geosciences, Georgia State University, 24 Peachtree Center Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30303, (9)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709, lowenst@binghamton.edu
    10:45 AM
    ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS ON AN EARLY PLEISTOCENE LAKE MARGIN: THE WTK13 CORE AT KAITIO, WEST TURKANA, KENYA
    FEIBEL, Craig S., Geological Sciences and Anthropology, Rutgers Univ, 131 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414, BECK, Catherine C., Geosciences Department, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, NY 13323, LUPIEN, Rachel, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, RUSSELL, James M., Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, DEINO, Alan, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709, SIER, Mark J., Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, CAMPISANO, Christopher J., Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 and COHEN, Andrew S., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, feibel@eps.rutgers.edu
    Handouts
  • 1. Feibel GSA Seattle 2017.pptx (45.8 MB)
  • 11:00 AM
    CLIMATE VARIABILITY ACROSS THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION IN EAST AFRICA AS SEEN IN AN HSPDP DRILL CORE FROM TUGEN HILLS, KENYA, AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR HOMININ EVOLUTION
    BILLINGSLEY, Anne L.1, ORTIZ, Kevin2, ANCHUKAITIS, Kevin3, DEINO, Alan L.4, KINGSTON, John D.5 and COHEN, Andrew S.1, (1)Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (2)Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (3)Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85721, (4)Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, (5)Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 101 West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107, abillingsley@email.arizona.edu
    11:15 AM
    STRATIGRAPHIC PACKAGING IN PLIOCENE TO RECENT RIFT LAKE SUCCESSIONS, KENYA RIFT VALLEY, USING LAKE-MARGIN AND TERRESTRIAL ICHNOLOGY
    SCOTT, Jennifer J., HANNAH, Alan J. and CHUPIK, Daniel T., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mount Royal University, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary, AB T3E 6K6, Canada, jescott@mtroyal.ca
    11:30 AM
    WIDESPREAD FRESHWATER CARBONATE IN THE OLDUVAI BASIN, A PRE-CURSOR TO A MAJOR VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN EAST AFRICA RIFT SYSTEM
    ASHLEY, Gail M.1, DE WET, Carol B.2 and HOUSER, Leah M.2, (1)Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08554, (2)Department of Earth and Environment, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, PA 17604, gmashley@eps.rutgers.edu
     
    11:45 AM
    Discussion
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