PP52A
Astronomical Forcing of Past Climate I

Friday, 18 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2010 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Rajarshi Roychowdhury, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  Edward Gasson1, Qiuzhen Yin2 and Molly O'Rourke Patterson1, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States(2)Université Catholique de Louvain, 1. Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Chairs:  Rajarshi Roychowdhury, Edward Gasson and Molly O'Rourke Patterson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Edward Gasson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
10:20
The Role of Orbital Forcing in the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition: Continuing the Precession Verses Obliquity Debate (60270)
Mark A Maslin and Christopher M Brierley, University College London, London, United Kingdom
10:35
An 800-kyr Record of Global Surface Ocean δ18O and Implications for Ice Volume-Temperature Coupling (Invited) (82567)
Jeremy D Shakun1, David W Lea2, Lorraine E Lisiecki2 and Maureen E Raymo3, (1)Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., New York, NY, United States
10:50
On the Timing and Forcing Mechanisms of Late Pleistocene Glacial Terminations: Insights from a New High-Resolution Benthic Stable Oxygen Isotope Record of the Eastern Mediterranean (74957)
Lucas Joost Lourens1, Theodoor Konijnendijk1 and Martin Ziegler2, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
11:05
How and when to terminate the Pleistocene ice ages? (Invited) (68580)
Ayako Abe-Ouchi, AORI, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
11:20
Using an Earth System Model to Better Understand Ice Sheet Variability Through the Pleistocene (Invited) (74763)
Clay Richard Tabor1, Christopher J Poulsen1 and David Pollard2, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
11:35
A megasplice of globally distributed benthic δ18O records exposes the different astronomical rhythms of the last 35 million years. (63208)
David De Vleeschouwer1, Maximilian Vahlenkamp2, Michel Crucifix3 and Heiko Palike1, (1)MARUM - University of Bremen, Palaeoceanography, Bremen, Germany, (2)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3)Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
11:50
A New Model of Orbital Pacing for Pliocene Glaciations (Invited) (69619)
Timothy Herbert, Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States, Harry J Dowsett, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States and Rocio P Caballero-Gill, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
12:05
ASTRONOMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE DURATION OF EARLY JURASSIC STAGES AND GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE AND CLIMATIC PERTURBATIONS (73905)
Micha Ruhl, University of Oxford, Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom