PP33D:
The Late Quaternary African-Syrian Rift Valley: Climate, Hydrology, and Human Dispersal II Posters
Session ID#: 4613
Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs: Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, 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: Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
Virtual Option?: No
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Organic Proxy Disturbance in the Dead Sea Basin at the Beginning of the Holocene (15408)
Daniel Ariztegui1, Camille Thomas1, Elan J. Levy2, Gilad Antler3, Orit Sivan2, Yoseph Yechieli4, Ittai Gavrieli4, Alexandra v Turchyn3, Mordechai Stein4 and DSDDP Scientific Team, (1)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, (2)Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel, (3)University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Evidence for humid and arboreal environment in the Middle Lisan Basin, 45-39 ka (the Mughr el-Hamamah site, Jordan): Implications for Anatomically Modern Human Dispersal into Western Eurasia (18230)
Miriam Belmaker, University of Tulsa, College of Arts & Sciences, Tulsa, United States and Aaron Jonas Stutz, Oxford College of Emory University, Anthropology, Oxford, GA, United States
U-Th dating of calcitic corals from the Gulf of Aqaba indicates freshwater activity during sapropels S5 and S4 (18482)
Maayan Yehudai1,2, Boaz Lazar3, Neta BAR (KOHN)3, Amotz Agnon4, Yonathan Shaked5 and Mordechai Stein6, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Earth Sciences Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Hebrew University, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (5)Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel, (6)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Continuous Dilution of the Ca-Chloride Dead Sea Bottom Brine during the Last Glacial – Evidence from Porewater from the ICDP Core (21152)
Elan Joshua Levy1, Orit Sivan2, Yoseph Yechieli1, Mordechai Stein1, Boaz Lazar3 and Ittai Gavrieli1, (1)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel, (3)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Earth Sciences Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
Shifting runoff from the Negev to the Mediterranean during sapropel S5 in the Dead Sea watershed (21780)
Daniel Palchan1, Mordechai Stein2, Yigal Erel1, Yehouda Enzel3 and Steven L Goldstein4, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
The Olorgesailie Drilling Project (ODP): a high-resolution drill core record from a hominin site in the East African Rift Valley (22323)
René Dommain, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington, United States, Richard Potts, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, Anna Katherine Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian NMNH, Paleobiology, Washington, DC, United States, Alan L Deino, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States and ODP Research Group
Extreme aridities in the Middle East during the last interglacial revealed by the halite sections from the Dead Sea cores (22899)
Yael Kiro, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Steven L Goldstein, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Tim K Lowenstein, Binghamton University, Department of Earth Sciences, Binghamton, United States, Javier García-Veigas, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Motti Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel and Boaz Lazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Earth Sciences Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
A Spring Forward for Human Evolution in East Africa? (8432)
Mark O Cuthbert, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom; University of New South Wales, Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre, Sydney, Australia and Gail M Ashley, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Fine Resolution Analysis of Lake Malawi Sediment Record Shows No Significant Climatic Impacts from the Mount Toba Super-Eruption of ~75ky (8718)
Lily Josephine Jackson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jeffery Stone, Indiana State University, Earth and Environmental Systems, Terre Haute, United States and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Onset of uplift and environmental change in East Africa: paleoaltimetry constraints from a 17 Ma beaked whale fossil from northern Kenya (12223)
Henry Wichura1, Louis L Jacobs2, Manfred R Strecker1, Andrew S Lin2, Michael J Polcyn2, Fredrick K Manthi3, Dale A Winkler2 and Matthew Clemens2, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States, (3)National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
Age depth model construction of the upper section of ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project based on the high-resolution 14C dating (14589)
Hiroyuki Kitagawa1, Toshio Nakamura2, Ina Neugebauer3, Markus Julius Schwab3, Achim Brauer3, Steven L Goldstein4, Mordechai Stein5 and DSDDP Scientific Party, (1)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Environmentasl Studies, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Enviromentasl Studies, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 'Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution', Potsdam, Germany, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
