Chairs: Gregory D Hoke, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States and Michael T Hren, University of Connecticut, Center for Integrative Geosciences, Groton, CT, United States
Primary Conveners: Gregory D Hoke, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States
Co-conveners: Michael T Hren, University of Connecticut, Center for Integrative Geosciences, Groton, CT, United States, Jay Quade, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Kathryn E Snell, CA Inst of Technology-GPS, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Gregory D Hoke, Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States
Inland Aridification of NW China Since the Late Middle Eocene: Stable Isotope Evidence from Western Qaidam Basin
Lin Li1, Carmala N Garzione1, Alexander T Pullen2, Hong Chang3 and Peter H Molnar4, (1)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)IEE Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China, (4)Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
The Altitude Effect of Leaf Wax-derived n-alkane δD on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Yan Bai1, Jimin Sun2, Xiaomin Fang1, Qian Tian1, Chihao Chen1 and Yuqing Ye1, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Beijng, China
Disentangling Topographic and Climatic Change during the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic in the Western US Cordillera
Kathryn E Snell, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, John M Eiler, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Brian P Wernicke, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States, Daniel J Peppe, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, David L. Fox, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Anne C Fetrow, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, United States and Benjamin H Passey, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Reconstructing a Hot and High Eocene Sierra Nevada Using Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Kaolinite
Hari Mix1, Daniel E Ibarra2, Andreas Mulch3, Stephan A Graham4 and C Page Chamberlain2, (1)Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Living on the Edge? Clumped Isotope and Oxygen Isotope Record of Early Cascade Topography (Eocene Chumstick Basin, WA, USA)
Katharina Methner1, Andreas Mulch2,3, Jens Fiebig3, Ulrike Wacker3, Paul J Umhoefer4 and C Page Chamberlain5, (1)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, United States, (2)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany, (3)Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, (4)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Stanford University, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Finding the Plateau: Paleogene Topography and Basin Formation in the Cordilleran Hinterland
Elizabeth J. Cassel1, Michael Elliot Smith2, Andrew Canada1, Christopher Henry3 and Dan Breecker4, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Deciphering the Spatial and Temporal Nature of the Surface Uplift in the Altiplano Plateau
Nandini Kar1, Carmala N Garzione1, Victor Santiago Carlotto2, Sarah Smith1, Alexander T Pullen3, Timothy M Shanahan4, Veronica J Anderson4 and John M Eiler5, (1)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)INGEMMET, Lima, Peru, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Univ of TX Austin-Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (5)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Orographic barrier development along the eastern flanks of the southern central Andes, Argentina: new insights from stable hydrogen isotopes in hydrated volcanic glass
Heiko Pingel1, Andreas Mulch2, Manfred R Strecker1, John M Cottle3, Alexander Rohrmann1 and Ricardo N Alonso4, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)Universidad Nacional de Salta, Departmento de Geología, Salta, Argentina
