PP33D:
The Late Quaternary African-Syrian Rift Valley: Climate, Hydrology, and Human Dispersal II Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Conveners:  Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Co-conveners:  Andrew S Cohen, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Possible connection between large volcanic eruptions and level rise episodes in the Dead Sea Basin
Revital Bookman, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, Sagi Filin, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Yoav Avni, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and Shmuel Marco, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
 
Organic Proxy Disturbance in the Dead Sea Basin at the Beginning of the Holocene
Daniel Ariztegui1, Camille Thomas1, Elan J. Levy2, Gilad Antler3, Orit Sivan2, Yoseph Yechieli4, Ittai Gavrieli4, Alexandra v Turchyn5 and Mordechai Stein4, (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, (5)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
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
Miriam Belmaker, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 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
Maayan Yehudai1,2, Boaz Lazar1, Neta BAR (KOHN)1, Amotz Agnon1, Yonathan Shaked3 and Mordechai Stein4, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel, (4)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
Elan Joshua Levy1, Orit Sivan2, Yoseph Yechieli3, Mordechai Stein3, Boaz Lazar4 and Ittai Gavrieli3, (1)Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, (2)Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 84105, Israel, (3)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Shifting runoff from the Negev to the Mediterranean during sapropel S5 in the Dead Sea watershed
Daniel Palchan1, Mordechai Stein2, Yigal Erel3, Yehouda Enzel1 and Steven L Goldstein4, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, Israel, (4)Columbia University, Sparkill, NY, United States
 
Solar Influence on Medieval Megadroughts in the Greater Near East 
Yochanan Kushnir, Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY, United States and Mordechai Stein, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
 
The Olorgesailie Drilling Project (ODP): a high-resolution drill core record from a hominin site in the East African Rift Valley
René Dommain1,2, Richard Potts2, Anna K. Behrensmeyer3 and Alan L Deino4, (1)University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, (2)Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (3)National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Department of Paleobiology, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Extreme aridities in the Middle East during the last interglacial revealed by the halite sections from the Dead Sea cores
Yael Kiro1, Steven L Goldstein1, Tim K Lowenstein2, Javier García-Veigas3, Motti Stein4 and Boaz Lazar5, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (3)Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (4)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (5)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
The modern and LGM hydrological cycles of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant from a water isotope perspective
Yonaton Goldsmith, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Avner Ayalon, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Geological Survey Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Pratigya J Polissar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observato, Nyack, NY, United States, Peter B deMenocal, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States and Wallace S Broecker, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Settlement on the Shores of Lake Lisan and adjacent swamps: Hindered aridization
Amotz Agnon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and Nigel Goring-Morris, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institute of Archaeology, Jerusalem, Israel
 
A Spring Forward for Human Evolution in East Africa?
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
Lily Josephine Jackson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jeffery Stone, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, United States and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Phytoliths Used to Investigate the Effects of the Indonesian Mount Toba Super-Eruption (~75 kyr) in East Africa: A Subdecadal Record from Lake Malawi
Chad L Yost and Andrew S Cohen, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Onset of uplift and environmental change in East Africa: paleoaltimetry constraints from a 17 Ma beaked whale fossil from northern Kenya
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
 
Planktonic Foraminifera as Sensitive Recorders of Climate Variability in the Eastern Mediterranean During the Last ~90 ka
Ahuva Almogi-Labin1, Miryam Bar-Matthews1, Avner Ayalon1 and Martine Paterne2, (1)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
 
Age depth model construction of the upper section of ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project based on the high-resolution 14C dating
Hiroyuki Kitagawa1, Toshio Nakamura1, Ina Neugebauer2, Markus Julius Schwab2, Achim Brauer2, Steven L Goldstein3 and Mordechai Stein4, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Columbia University, Sparkill, NY, United States, (4)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Last interglacial (MIS5e) sea-levels and uplift along the north-east Gulf of Aqaba
Neta BAR (KOHN)1, Mordechai Stein2, Amotz Agnon1, Maayan Yehudai1, Boaz Lazar1 and Yonathan Shaked3, (1)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, (2)Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, (3)Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat, Israel