The Role of Climate in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework (SEPM)
Room Blrm C3/C4
Co-Chairs: M. Blum and M. Gibling
8:00 -- Introductory Remarks
8:05 -- T. E. Törnqvist: The Role of Climate in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Recent Progress and Future Challenges
8:45 -- J. P. M. Syvitski: The Influence of Climate on the Sediment Load of Rivers
9:05 -- M. Blum: Signatures of Climate vs. Sea-Level Change in Quaternary Incised Valley-Fill Successions: Examples from the Texas Gulf Coast
9:25 -- M. R. Gibling, S. K. Tandon, R. Sinha, M. Jain: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Southern Gangetic Plains, India: Quaternary Alluvial Sequences Created by Climate Change and Tectonism
9:45 -- Break
10:00 -- S. L. Goodbred, Jr: Climate Change Impacts and Signal Preservation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta Sequence
10:20 -- L. Bartek, III, R. Wellner, J. D. Warren: Climate Change and Shelf Physiography -- Their Role in Shaping Sequence Architecture: An Example from the East China Sea
10:40 -- R. Flecker, P. Valdes: Assessing the Amplitude of Climate-Driven Sea Level Fluctuations using Global Climate Model Simulations and their Implications for Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation
11:00 -- J. Holbrook, F. Oboh-Ikuenobe: Is Climate the Real "Rainmaker" in Fluvial Lowstand Deposition? A Look at the Concept of Base-Level Buffers and Buttresses and the Comparative Role of Sea Level and Climate in Architecturally Complex "Lowstand" Fluvial Sandstone
11:20 -- T. Demko, S. Hasiotis: Stratal Architecture and Paleoclimate in Continental Depositional Systems: The Record of Landscape Evolution in the Upper Triassic Chinle and Upper Jurassic Morrison Formations, Colorado Plateau, USA
11:40 -- J. E. Huntoon, R. Dubiel, J. D. Stanesco: Linked Variations in Sea Level and Sediment Supply Produced by Low-Frequency Climate Cyclicity During the Late Paleozoic