GSA Connects 2023 Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Session No. 146
Tuesday, 17 October 2023: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
321 (David L Lawrence Convention Center)

T46. Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Variability of Western North America

GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Continental Scientific Drilling Division

 

Jamie Vornlocher, Laura Lopera Congote and Hailey Sinon, Advocates
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
FOUR LAYER WATER MASS STRATIFICATION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN
JEFFERY, David, Petroleum Engineering and Geology, Marietta College, 215 5th Street, Marietta, OH 45750
8:20 AM
PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION ON THE FISH LAKE PLATEAU, UTAH: RECESSIONAL LGM MORAINE CHRONOLOGY AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF PEAK TO RECESSIONAL LGM ICE CAP AND CIRQUE GLACIERS
MARCHETTI, David1, ANDERSON, Leif2, SHIRLEY, Austin1, RISER, Chloe1, ANDERSON, Lesleigh3, ABBOTT, Mark4, MORRIS, Jesse5, BRUNELLE, Andrea5, POWER, Mitchell J.5 and WERNE, Josef6, (1)Geology Program, Western Colorado University, 600 N. Adams St, Gunnison, CO 81231, (2)Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Geoscience and Environmental Change Science Center, Box 25046 MS 980, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, (4)Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, 4107 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, (5)Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (6)Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
8:35 AM
PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF BOULDER MOUNTAIN, UTAH: EXPOSURE AGES OF MORAINE BOULDERS AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF THE LGM ICE CAP
ANDERSON, Leif1, MARCHETTI, David2, LEWIS, Rayni2, FLOYD, Michael Carsen2, SHIRLEY, Austin2 and CERLING, Thure1, (1)Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (2)Geology Program, Western Colorado University, 600 N. Adams St, Gunnison, CO 81231
8:50 AM
CLIMATE, FUEL, AND FIRE IN THE GREAT BASIN: MID- TO LATE-HOLOCENE PERSPECTIVES FROM BLUE LAKE, NV
MARK, Samuel, SHAFFER, Owen and ABBOTT, Mark B., Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, 4107 O'Hara St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
9:05 AM
WESTERN US PRECIPITATION PATTERNS DURING PAST WARM STATES: A PROXY COMPILATION-MODEL COMPARISON FOR THE MID-HOLOCENE AND LAST INTERGLACIAL (Invited Presentation)
DE WET, Cameron, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235; Institute of the Environment, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, IBARRA, Daniel, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912; Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, BELANGER, Bryce, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 and OSTER, Jessica, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240
 
9:20 AM
Break
9:35 AM
IN SITU COSMOGENIC BE-10 AND C-14 EXPOSURE AGE EVIDENCE FOR THE TIMING OF CIRQUE GLACIERS FORMATION IN LYELL CANYON, YOSEMITE DURING THE POST-LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM DEGLACIATION
CHE, Yueyi, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, ABBEY, Alyssa, Department Geological Sciences, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90804, STOCK, Greg, National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA 95318, CUFFEY, Kurt M., Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 and SHUSTER, David L., Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, 307 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
9:50 AM
CLUMPED ISOTOPE PALEOTHERMOMETRY AND MOLLUSK ASSEMBLAGE-BASED PALEOTHERMOMETRY YIELD CONSISTENT ESTIMATES FOR LATE PLEISTOCENE MARINE TERRACES OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT
FINNEGAN, Seth1, ORZECHOWSKI, Emily A.2, BEAN, Jessica R.3, STOLPER, Daniel A.4 and TURNER, Andrew4, (1)Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, (2)Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, (3)Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, (4)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
10:05 AM
A ~50 KA RECORD OF TWO JUNIPER SPECIES AT THE LA BREA TAR PITS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DROUGHT IN THE LATE PLEISTOCENE
GEORGE, Jessie1, DIMSON, Monica2, DUNN, Regan1, LINDSEY, Emily1, FARRELL, Aisling1 and SPROUL DIT MACDONALD, Glen M.2, (1)La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, (2)Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
10:20 AM
LACUSTRINE RECORDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE FROM THE EASTERN SIERRA NEVADA: AN UPDATE ON LAMINATED SEDIMENT CORES FROM THE MONO BASIN (CALIFORNIA, USA) (Invited Presentation)
MCGLUE, Michael1, ZIMMERMAN, Susan2, HODELKA, Bailee N.1, BENFIELD, Adam J.3, LYON, Eva4, STREIB, Laura5, IVORY, Sarah6, PALACIOS-FEST, Manuel R.7, STARRATT, Scott W.8, STONE, Jeffery R.9 and DEINO, Alan10, (1)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, (2)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709; Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, (3)Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, (4)Geological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, (5)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, (6)Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, (7)Terra Nostra Earth Sciences Research LLC, Tucson, AZ 85740, (8)U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3591, (9)Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, (10)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709
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