PP31G:
The Late Quaternary African-Syrian Rift Valley: Climate, Hydrology, and Human Dispersal I

Session ID#: 3202

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel and Andrew S Cohen, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Primary Convener:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Co-Convener:  Andrew S Cohen, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1105 Quaternary geochronology [GEOCHRONOLOGY]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
9345 Large bodies of water (e.g., lakes and inland seas) [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PP31G-01
A Review of New and Anticipated High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Hominin Evolution and Demography (8185)
Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
PP31G-02
LATITUDINAL HYDROLOGIC VARIABILITY ALONG THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT, OVER THE PAST 200 KYR (Invited) (5147)
Christopher A Scholz, Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, United States
PP31G-03
Human Dispersals Along the African Rift Valley in the Late Quaternary (Invited) (4017)
Christian A Tryon, Harvard University, Anthropology Department, Cambridge, MA, United States, J. Tyler Faith, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia and Daniel J Peppe, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States
PP31G-04
Waxing and Waning of Forests: Late Quaternary Biogeography of Lake Malawi, Southeast Africa (18538)
Sarah Ivory, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Anne-Marie Lézine, LOCEAN, Paris Cedex 05, France, Annie Vincens, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
PP31G-05
The Last Interglacial in the Levant: Perspective from the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drill Core (Invited) (4024)
Steven L Goldstein, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, Adi Torfstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Yochanan Kushnir, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel and Gerald Hermann Haug, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PP31G-06
Freshening of the Dead Sea during the Last Glacial Revealed By Porewater Composition in ICDP Dead Sea Deep-Drill (Invited) (4170)
Boaz Lazar1, Orit Sivan2, Yoseph Yechieli3, Elan J. Levy2, Gilad Antler4, Ittai Gavrieli3 and Mordechai Stein3, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Earth Sciences Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel, (3)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PP31G-07
Where East Africa and the Levant Are Climatically Connected: An Alternative View of the Northward Shifts of Either the ITCZ and/or the Indian Summer Monsoon (7736)
Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, Yochanan Kushnir, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY, United States and Jay Quade, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
PP31G-08
The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel: environment, hominin culture, subsistence and adaptation on the shores of the paleo-Hula Lake (12417)
Naama Goren-Inbar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
PP31G-09
A 600,000 year long continental pollen record from Lake Van, eastern Turkey (22392)
Thomas Litt1, Nadine Pickarski1, Georg Heumann1 and PALEOVAN science team, (1)University of Bonn, Steinmann Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, Bonn, Germany
PP31G-10
Millennial to orbital-scale ice sheet effects on drought intensity in the Eastern Mediterranean (20531)
Mona Stockhecke1,2, Axel Timmermann3, Rolf Kipfer1,4, Gerald Hermann Haug1, Ola Kwiecien4,5, Tobias Friedrich6, Laurie Menviel7, Thomas Litt8, Nadine Pickarski8 and Flavio Anselmetti9, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Surface Waters, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (3)IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (5)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (6)IPRC-SOEST, Honolulu, United States, (7)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (8)University of Bonn, Steinmann Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, Bonn, Germany, (9)Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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