EP13D:
From the Mountains to the Sea: Significance of Grain-Size Distributions in Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleoclimatology—Analyses, Application, and Interpretation Posters


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Session ID#: 53300

Session Description:
Geological landscapes are shaped by processes that produce, transport and deposit mixtures of particles. Information on how sediment has been produced and modified is encoded in grain-size distributions, which evolve after sediment production by mixing from different sources, size reduction by physical and chemical attack, and sorting during transport and deposition. The detailed investigation of particle size distributions of sediments, suspended load, or aerosols is an increasingly used approach in assessing those environmentally driven geophysical processes in sedimentary systems. This session aims to provide a lively forum to review all aspects of particle size investigations applied to terrestrial, coastal, marine, lacustrine, or atmospheric environments, e.g. material sorting, land-atmosphere processes, sediment dispersal studies, advances in measurement techniques and data analysis, as well as statistical characterization and modeling of particle size distributions.
Primary Convener:  Bjoern Machalett, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
Conveners:  P Thompson Davis, Bentley University, Natural & Applied Sciences, Waltham, MA, United States and Inka Meyer, Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium
Primary Liaison:  Bjoern Machalett, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Chairs:  Bjoern Machalett, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Inka Meyer, Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium and P Thompson Davis, Bentley University, Natural & Applied Sciences, Waltham, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Inka Meyer, Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium
Co-Organized with:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

3344 Paleoclimatology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4914 Continental climate records [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Taphonomic Clock Based on Coral Grain-size Analysis from Aurface Reef Sediments: Implications for Reef Sedimentary Systems (354181)
Yali Li, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Xinqing Zou, Nanjing University, Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing, China
Annual grain-size variability in three varved High-Arctic lakes (396020)
Francois Lapointe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States, Michael Retelle, Bates College--Geology, Lewiston, ME, United States, Steven Roof, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, United States, A Werner, Mt. Holyoke College, Dept. of Geology, South Hadley, MA, United States, Raymond S Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Pierre Francus, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada and Scott F Lamoureux, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Burial and thermal evolution of siliceous rocks in Neogene Akita basin, Northern Japan, by means of organic geochemistry (428700)
Shun Chiyonobu, Akita University, Faculty of International Resource Sciences, Akita, Japan, Hirotaka Yamato, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., 1-5-20 Kaigan, Minato, Tokyo, Japan and Shigehiro Kitamura, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, 2-10-1 Toranomon, Minato, Japan
Changes in Channel Characteristics Associated with The River Transport Capacity Along The Fluvial-Tidal Transition Zone (394824)
Zeyad Ayoob Sulaiman, University of South Carolina Columbia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, SC, United States, Enrica Viparelli, University of South Carolina, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, SC, United States and Raymond Torres, University of South Carolina Columbia, Earth Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States
Contribution of Loose Sediments in Local Areas to Loess Deposits in the Mu Us Desert (439409)
Yanglei Wen, Yongqiu Wu, Lihua Tan, Li Dawei Sr and Tianyang Fu, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Grain-size distribution and patterns in storm-induced event beds in a coastal pond (415471)
Katherine A Castagno, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, Sophie Ruehr, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, United States, Jeffrey P Donnelly, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States and Jonathan D Woodruff, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
Surface Sediment Texture in the Eastern Long Island Sound (359876)
Celeste Teresa Pallone1, Frank Oliver Nitsche2, Timothy C Kenna2 and Cecilia M. McHugh3,4, (1)Barnard College, New York, NY, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States, (4)Queens College, City University of New York, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Flushing, United States
The Uncommon Spherical Structures Formed in situ in the Proterozoic Sandstone of North China Craton (409361)
Li Xiaobo, Jilin University, Jilin, China
Using End-Member Mixing Analysis (EMMA) of grain sizes to model transportational and depositional processes and determine stratigraphic relationships at Rimrock Lake and Hay Lake playas, Harney Basin, eastern Oregon, USA. (449549)
Joe Dan Collins Jr, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Richard P Langford, Univ Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Thomas E Gill, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences / Environmental Science and Engineering Program, El Paso, TX, United States and Mark W Bowen, Minnesota State University Mankato, Department of Geography, Mankato, MN, United States
Variation in clastic-fraction sediment properties of Lake Chala, East Africa: Understanding the source-to-sink processes and temporal changes (417067)
Inka Meyer1, Niels Tanghe2, Jonas Eloy2, Dirk Verschuren3 and Marc A O De Batist4, (1)Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG), Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium, (3)Ghent University, Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Gent, Belgium, (4)Ghent University, Geology, Gent, Belgium
Variation of sediment grain size and relationship to water depth in a tidal environment: An example from a modern flood tidal delta in Texas (378792)
Carolina Ramon Duenas and Julia Wellner, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

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