XVI INQUA Congress

Session No. 47
Monday, 28 July 2003: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

S16. The Late Quaternary Glaciation of Tibet and the Bordering Mountains: Implications for Understanding and Reconstructing the Evolution of the Mountains, Deserts, Hydrology, Vegetation and Early Humans in Central Asia

 

Lewis Owen, Convener
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8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:10 AM
LATE QUATERNARY GLACIATION IN THE HIMALAYA AND TIBET
OWEN, Lewis, A.1, BARNARD, Patrick, L.2, BENN, Douglas, I.3, CAFFEE, Marc, W.4, DERBYSHIRE, Edward5, FINKEL, Robert, C.6, GUALTIERI, Lyn7, MA, Haizhou8, SHARMA, Milap, C.9 and SPENCER, Joel, Q.3, (1)Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, CA 92521, (2)Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, (3)School of Geography and Geosciences, Univ of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9AL, United Kingdom, (4)Physics, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN 47907, (5)Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, (6)CAMS, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA 94550, (7)Quaternary Research Center, Univ of Washington, Box 351360, Seattle, WA 98195-1360, (8)Institute of Saline Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China, (9)Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, Delhi, India, Lewis.Owen@ucr.edu, Lewis.Owen@ucr.edu
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8:30 AM
EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTH ASIAN MONSOON THROUGH THE LATE QUATERNARY: IMPACTS ON HIMALAYAN GLACIATION AND ASIAN CLIMATE
BUSH, Andrew B.G., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Alberta, 126 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada, andrew.bush@ualberta.ca, andrew.bush@ualberta.ca
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8:50 AM
LATE QUATERNARY GLACIER AND LAKE LEVEL VARIATIONS IN MONGOLIA AND BORDERING REGIONS
LEHMKUHL, Frank, Department of Geography, Aachen Univ, Templergraben 55, Aachen, 52062, Germany, flehmkuhl@geo.rwth-aachen.de, flehmkuhl@geo.rwth-aachen.de
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9:10 AM
FLUCTUATING DESERT MARGINS AND HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE DURING AND SINCE THE LATE QUATERNARY GLACIATION OF TIBET AND THE BORDERING MOUNTAINS
DERBYSHIRE, Edward, Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, e.derbyshire@rhul.ac.uk, e.derbyshire@rhul.ac.uk
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9:30 AM
LATE QUATERNARY GLACIATION IN WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA
KOPPES, M.N.1, GILLESPIE, A.R.1, BURKE, R.M.2, THOMPSON, S.C.3 and CLARK, D.H.4, (1)Quaternary Research Center, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, (2)Department of Geology, Humboldt State Univ, Arcata, CA 95521, (3)Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, (4)Dept of Geology, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA, koppes@u.washington.edu, koppes@u.washington.edu
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9:50 AM
LATE QUATERNARY GLACIATION IN NORTHERN CENTRAL ASIA
BURKE, Raymond M., Dept. Geology, Humboldt State Univ, Arcata, CA 95521, GILLESPIE, Alan, Quaternary Research Center, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, BAYASGALAN, Amgalan, GeoInformatics Center, Mongolian Univ of Sci and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, SHEINKMAN, Vladimir, Department of Dynamic Geology, Tomsk State Univ, Lenin av., 36, Tomsk, 634050, Russia and CHADWICK, Oliver, Department of Geography, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, rmb2@humboldt.edu, rmb2@humboldt.edu
 
10:10 AM
Break
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10:30 AM
NUMERICAL DATING OF QUATERNARY GLACIATION IN THE SOURCE AREA OF THE URUMQI RIVER, TIEN SHAN, NORTHWESTERN CHINA
YI, Chaolu, Geography, Nanjing Univ, Hankou Road 22, Nanjing, 210093, clyi@nju.edu.cn, clyi@nju.edu.cn
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10:50 AM
HISTORY OF GLACIATIONS IN THE NEPAL HIMALAYAS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF PALAEOCLIMATE SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL
ASAHI, Katsuhiko1, WATANABE, Teiji1 and TSUKAMOTO, Sumiko2, (1)Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido Univ, N10W5, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan, (2)Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan, asahi@ees.hokudai.ac.jp, asahi@ees.hokudai.ac.jp
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11:10 AM
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGH MOUNTAIN GLACIATION AND DESERT EVOLUTION ON THE NORTHERN SLOPE OF KUNLUN MOUNTAINS
YANG, Xiaoping, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 9825, Beijing, 100029, China and OWEN, Lewis, Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, CA 92521, xpyang@263.net.cn, xpyang@263.net.cn
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11:30 AM
THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF LATE PLEISTOCENE HOMINID POPULATIONS IN CENTRAL AND EAST ASIA
BRANTINGHAM, P. Jeffrey, Department of Anthropology, Univ of California, Los Angeles, 41 Haines Hall, Box 951553, Los Angeles, CA 90095, MA, Haizhou, Institute of Saline Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China, MADSEN, David B., Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1100, Algeria, GAO, Xing, Department of Paleolithic Archaeology, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, PO Box 142, Beijing, 100044, China, RHODE, David, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Desert Rsch Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512 and OLSEN, John W., Department of Anthropology, Univ of Arizona, 1009 E South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ 85721, branting@ucla.edu, branting@ucla.edu
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11:50 AM
100 YEARS OF GLACIER RETREAT IN CENTRAL ASIA
KARGEL, Jeffrey S.1, GILLESPIE, Alan2, ARZHANNIKOVA, Nastya V.3, ARZHANNIKOV, Sergei3, BAYASGALAN, Amgalan4, BISHOP, Michael P., HASNAIN, Syed I.6, KAEAEB, Andreas7, SHEINKMAN, Vladimir8 and WESSELS, Rick9, (1)U.S. Geol Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Dr, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, (2)Quaternary Research Center, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, (3)Institute of Earth Crustal Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk, Russia, (4)Geoinformatics Center, Mongolian Univ of Sci and Technology, P.O.Box 49/418, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, (5)Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, Delhi, India, (6)Univ of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (7)Mizpe Ramon, Ein Ofarim, 4/5, 80600, Israel, (8)Arizona State Univ, 2255 N. Gemini Dr, Flagstaff, 86001, jkargel@usgs.gov, jkargel@usgs.gov
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