PP21B
Demystifying the Miocene-Pliocene: Exploring the Couplings and Evolution of Climatic, Biologic, Biogeochemical, and Oceanic Systems I Posters

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Heather M Stoll, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
Conveners:  Kira T Lawrence, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
Chairs:  Heather M Stoll, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain and Kira T Lawrence, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Heather M Stoll, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
 
Role of Marine Gateways in the Paleoceanography of the Miocene Mediterranean Sea; A Model Study (58811)
Alba de la Vara and Paul Th Meijer, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Understanding the Miocene-Pliocene – The Mediterranean Point of View (61312)
Dirk Simon1, Alice Marzocchi2, Dan John Lunt2, Rachel Flecker2, Frits J Hilgen3 and Paul Th Meijer4, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)Utrecht University, Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
 
Cenozoic History of Paleo-Currents through the Central American Seaway: Insights from Deep Sea Sediments and Outcrops in Panama (76250)
Amanda J Waite, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
 
A MONTHLY-RESOLVED OXYGEN ISOTOPIC TIME SERIES FROM A PRISTINE FOSSIL CARIBBEAN CORAL SUPPORTS MODERN ENSO CONDITIONS AT THE MIOCENE/PLIOCENE BOUNDARY (78308)
Rhawn Flavell Denniston1, Thomas Weiss1, Gabriele Villarini2 and Alan D Wanamaker3, (1)Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
 
Pleistocene to Miocene Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy from IODP Expedition 334 Hole U1381A and Expedition 352 Hole U1439A (76702)
Margaret Power, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and IODP Expedition 352 Scientists, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Using benthic foraminiferal B/Ca to constrain the effect of dissolution on key Pliocene Mg/Ca temperature records (65882)
Sarah M White, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Ana Christina Ravelo, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Reconstruction of western Pacific and Atlantic Ocean Surface Stability during the Miocene to Quaternary based on nannofossil assemblages (65885)
Tokiyuki Sato, Santi dwi Pratiwi and Rendy Effendi, Akita University, Faculty of International Resource Sciences, Akita, Japan
 
 
Organic Geochemical Reconstructions from Lake El'gygytgyn, Northeast Arctic Siberia, Constrain Arctic Temperature and Hydrologic Change Across the Pliocene-Pleistocene Transition (71059)
Benjamin Andrew Keisling1, Julie Brigham-Grette2 and Isla S. Castañeda2, (1)UMass Amherst-Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Climate-Ice Sheet Interactions through the Plio-Pleistocene: Preliminary Results from IODP 341 Expedition (Gulf of Alaska). (77903)
Maria Luisa Sanchez Montes1, Erin McClymont1, Oscar E Romero2, Ellen A Cowan3, Juliane Müller4, Jeremy M Lloyd5 and IODP 341 Exp. Scientists, (1)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3)Appalachian State University, Geology, Boone, NC, United States, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (5)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
 
Investigating changes in North Pacific intermediate water during the last 4 million years (67368)
Briana Ramirez, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
DECIPHERING ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER VARIABILITY DURING THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE (86562)
Cyrus Karas, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
 
Trends in Plio-Pleistocene southwest Pacific stable isotope stratigraphy: Implications for orbital forcing of ice sheets and mid-Pliocene sea level estimates (66140)
Molly O'Rourke Patterson1, Robert M Mckay2, Tim Naish2, Gary S Wilson3, Christian Ohneiser3, Stella C Woodard4, Helen Clare Bostock5 and Rocio P Caballero-Gill6, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (3)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (4)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (5)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Towards an Accurate Orbital Calibration of Late Miocene Climate Events: Insights From a High-Resolution Chemo- and Magnetostratigraphy (8-6 Ma) from Equatorial Pacific IODP Sites U1337 and U1338 (69164)
Anna Joy Drury1, Thomas Westerhold1, Thomas Frederichs2, Roy Wilkens3, James E T Channell4, Helen F Evans5, David A Hodell6, Cedric M John7, Mitchell W Lyle8, Ursula Roehl1 and Jun Tian9, (1)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (5)Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, (6)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (7)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (8)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (9)Tongji University, State Key Laboratory, Shanghai, China
 
Assessment of Plio-Pleistocene Sea Surface Temperature Evolution Across Ocean Basins, Hemispheres, and Latitudes (62720)
Laura Peterson1, Kira T Lawrence2, Haley Mauriello2, Jane Wilson1 and Lucia Holte1, (1)Luther College, Decorah, IA, United States, (2)Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States
 
Orbital Variability and Evolution of Subantarctic Surface Waters in the Pliocene Epoch (64078)
Rocio P Caballero-Gill, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Timothy Herbert, Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States
 
Agulhas Leakage changes in the Pliocene as a modulator of AMOC strength (86056)
Neil Pravin Patel, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Detailed view into the dynamics of the Late Miocene glaciation episode that accompanied terrestrial evolution (59470)
Alexandrina Tzanova, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science, Providence, RI, United States; Central Connecticut State University, Geology, New Britain, CT, United States, Timothy Herbert, Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States, Kira T Lawrence, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, United States, Laura Peterson, Luther College, Decorah, IA, United States and Christopher Sean Kelly, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
 
Global Sea Surface Temperature and Ecosystem Change Across the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum (81832)
Tjerk Jacob Tamme Veenstra, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands
 
Late Cenozoic genus Fupingopollenites development and its implications for the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) evolution (63094)
Yunfa Miao1, Chunhui Song2, Xiaomin Fang3, Qingquan Meng2, Ping Zhang4, Fuli Wu3 and Xiaoli Yan2, (1)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (3)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Key Laboratory of Earth Fissures Geological Disaster, Ministry of Land and Resources; Geological Survey of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China
 
C4 plant expansion since the late Miocene and the evolution of Asian summer monsoon (76352)
Haibin Wu1, Zhengtang Guo1, Joel Guiot2, Yanyan Yu1, Junyi Ge3, Yan Zhang1 and Shunzheng Peng4, (1)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France, (3)Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Department of Tourism and Resources-Environment, Taishan University, Taian, China
 
The role of hydroclimate in the late-Miocene expansion of C4 grasses in India (72919)
Pratigya J Polissar1, Kevin T Uno1, Samuel R Phelps2 and Jennifer Lee Pensky3, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Barnard College, New York, NY, United States
 
Clay mineralogy indicates the living environment of the terminal Miocene hominoid of the Zhaotong Basin, Yunnan, China (78154)
Chunxia Zhang1,2, Zhengtang Guo1,2, Chenglong Deng3, Xueping Ji4,5, Haibin Wu2, Greig A Paterson6, Chang Lin2, Qin Li2, Bai Ling3 and Rixiang Zhu3, (1)CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, beijing, China, (4)Department of Paleoanthropology, Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, Kunming, China, (5)Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Evidence for a short-lived increase in atmospheric CO2 at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary (62184)
Tammo Reichgelt1, William J D'Andrea1 and Bethany Fox2, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
Changing Climate Sensitivity in Response to Forest-Tundra Snow Albedo Feedback during the mid to late Pliocene Cooling (86490)
Pablo Paiewonsky, State University of New York at Albany, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
 
Friis Hills Drilling Project - Coring an Early to mid-Miocene terrestrial sequence in the Transantarctic Mountains to examine climate gradients and ice sheet variability along an inland-to-offshore transect (82766)
Adam R Lewis1, Richard H Levy2, Tim Naish3, Andrew R Gorman4, Nick Golledge5, Warren W Dickinson3, Christoph Kraus3, Fabio Florindo6, Allan C Ashworth1, Alex Pyne5 and Tony Kingan7, (1)North Dakota State University Main Campus, Geosciences, Fargo, ND, United States, (2)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (4)University of Otago, Department of Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand, (5)Victoria University of Wellington, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, (6)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (7)Webster Drilling and Exploration Ltd., Porirau, New Zealand
 
Investigating Tectonic Drivers of Miocene - Pliocene Polar Climate Evolution using the HadCM3 Climate Model. (72091)
Stephen J Hunter1, Jochen Knies2, Alan M Haywood3, Aisling M Dolan1 and Matthew J Pound4, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, (3)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)Northumbria University, Geography, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
 
Diatom and Geochemical Constraints on Pliocene Sea Surface Conditions on the Wilkes Land Margin, East Antarctica (85914)
Christina R Riesselman, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand