Joint 118th Annual Cordilleran/72nd Annual Rocky Mountain Section Meeting - 2022

Session No. 13
Tuesday, 15 March 2022: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
CBC-A 108 (UNLV Classroom Building Complex A)

T16. Quaternary Paleoclimate Records of the Rocky Mountain Region

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division

 

Shannon A. Mahan, Tammy M. Rittenour and Peter Fawcett, Advocates
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Start Time
1:30 PM
ANCIENT HUMAN FOOTPRINTS IN WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK AND THEIR LINK TO ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE
PIGATI, Jeff1, SPRINGER, Kathleen1, BENNETT, Matthew R.2, BUSTOS Sr., David3, URBAN, Thomas4, HOLLIDAY, Vance T.5, REYNOLDS, Sally C.2, HONKE, Jeffrey1, SANTUCCI, Vincent L.6 and ODESS, Daniel7, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Box 25046, MS 980, Denver, CO 80225, (2)Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom, (3)White Sands National Park, PO Box 1086, Holloman Afb, NM 88330-1086, (4)Department of Classics and Tree Ring Laboratory, 120 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, (5)School of Anthropology & Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (6)Geologic Resources Division, National Park Service, 1849 "C" Street, Washington, DC 20240, (7)Cultural Resources Directorate, U.S. National Park Service, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240
1:50 PM
5,000-YEAR LAKE CARBONATE AND TREE-RING BASED SNOWPACK RECONSTRUCTIONS REVEAL LONG-TERM TRENDS IN SOUTHWEST MT HYDROCLIMATE
MOONEY, Kori and SCHOENEMANN, Spruce, Environmental Sciences Department, The University of Montana Western, 710 S. Atlantic St, Dillon, MT 59725
2:10 PM
CAVE MONITORING AND DRIPWATER SAMPLING TO SUPPORT INTERPRETATION OF A LONG SPELEOTHEM RECORD FROM WHITEROCKS CAVE, UTAH
MUNROE, Jeffrey, Department of Geology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753
2:30 PM
ICE IN LAVA TUBES FROM WEST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AS ARCHIVE OF PAST VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
VITELLI-HAWKINS, Quinton, School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
 
2:50 PM
Break
3:05 PM
EOLIAN ACTIVITY RECORDS FROM TWO SOUTHERN UTAH DUNE FIELDS: AN INSIGHT TO NATURAL HYDROCLIMATE VARIABILITY DURING HOLOCENE
CORNACHIONE, Harriet1, RITTENOUR, Tammy M.1 and NELSON, Michelle Summa2, (1)Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, 4505 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, (2)Luminescence Laboratory, Utah State University, 1770 N Research Pkwy, Suite 123, North Logan, UT 84341
3:25 PM
FLOODPLAIN STABILITY CONTROLS THE GROWTH POTENTIAL AND RESILIENCE OF INDIGENOUS NORTHERN COLORADO PLATEAU AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY FROM, DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT
FINLEY, Judson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Utah State University, 730 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-0730 and ROBINSON, Erick, Department of Anthropology, Boise State University, HEMG Room 55, Mail Stop 1950, Boise, ID 83725
3:45 PM
HOLOCENE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU
RITTENOUR, Tammy M., Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, 4505 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322
4:05 PM
THE ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS OF LOWER WAHWEAP CREEK: LINKING CLIMATE AND INCISION RECORDS IN THE CENTRAL COLORADO PLATEAU
SLADE, Noah and RITTENOUR, Tammy M., Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, 4505 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322
4:25 PM
DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND QUARTZ OSL TRACK THE PROGRESSIVE PLEISTOCENE FILL AND SPILL OF PALEO BEAR RIVER BASINS OF UTAH AND IDAHO
CAPALDI, Tomas1, RITTENOUR, Tammy M.2, PEDERSON, Joel2 and NELSON, Michelle S.3, (1)University of Nevada, Las Vegas, (2)Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, 4505 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, (3)USU Luminescence Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, North Logan, UT 84341
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