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GSA2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
Advocates: Cynthia M. Liutkus-Pierce; Christopher J. T199. Modeling Soil Processes in the Geological Sciences:
Campisano; Christopher J. Lepre Status, Gains, and Opportunities
This session will showcase research that reconstructs the Cosponsors: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest
context (age, climate, environment, etc.) of primate, hominin, and Group; Soil Science Society of America; GSA Sedimentary Geology
human sites with particular emphasis on the Old World. Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
T195. The Effects of Discharge Variability and Seasonality on Disciplines: Soils, Hydrogeology, Environmental Geoscience
Fluvial Morphodynamics
Cosponsors: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); GSA Advocates: Michael Young; Harry Vereecken; Todd G. Caldwell
Sedimentary Geology Division
Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Geomorphology, Stratigraphy We seek research presentations that use numerical and concep-
Advocates: Mark Hansford; James Syvitski tual models of soil processes (runoff, recharge, biogeochemical
reactions, root water uptake, etc.) and how those models can be
This session aims to explore the effects of variable river connected to the atmospheric, hydrologic, and biologic
discharge on river morphodynamics and resultant deposits, as communities.
well as on river output into deltaic or deepwater systems.
T200. The Rhizosphere: Processes at the Bio-Geo Interface
T196. The Other Red Planet: Terrestrial Environments and
Climates from the Permian and Triassic Cosponsors: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest
Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Soils and Group; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division
Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest Group; SEPM (Society for
Sedimentary Geology) Disciplines: Soils, Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology
Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Paleoclimatology/
Paleoceanography, Soils Advocates: Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad; Marjorie S. Schulz
Advocates: Kathleen C. Benison; Jonathan Knapp
The rhizosphere is the most active part in soils where biology
This session aims to bring together geoscientists applying and geology interact and facilitate many biogeochemical
diverse methodologies to the study of Permian-Triassic terrestrial processes. These reactions control soil development, nutrient and
sedimentary rocks and to serve as a catalyst for collaboration and water availability, etc. We welcome submissions from all scales,
discovery about Pangean environments and climates. laboratory, field, and modeling studies.
T197. Transition Zones in Sediment Transport Systems STRATIGRAPHY
Cosponsors: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); STEPPE;
GSA Sedimentary Geology Division T201. Cenozoic Geology of the Great Plains: Toward an
Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Stratigraphy, Geomorphology Integrated Understanding of a Sedimentary, Paleoecologic, and
Advocates: Anjali M. Fernandes; Man Liang Geohydrologic System
We solicit contributions that use modern/ancient field datasets, Cosponsors: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); GSA
experimental observations, numerical modeling, and statistical Geology and Society Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA
methods to characterize changes in surface dynamics across tran- Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes
sition zones in transport systems at a range of spatio-temporal Interdisciplinary Interest Group; National Ground Water
scales, emphasizing their impact on the stratigraphic record. Association
Disciplines: Stratigraphy, Sediments, Clastic, Hydrogeology
Advocates: David L. Fox; Greg A. Ludvigson
This session examines the stratigraphy, sedimentology,
geochronology, hydrogeology, and environmental evolution of the
Cenozoic Great Plains succession in the context of sediment
sources in the Cordillera and sinks in the Gulf of Mexico.
SOILS T202. Detrital Zircons on the North American Continental GSA TODAY | www.geosociety.org/gsatoday
Interior
T198. Beneath Da Vinci’s Feet: The Multidisciplinary World
of Soil Science Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Structural
Geology and Tectonics Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary
Cosponsors: GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Soils and Soil Geology)
Processes Interdisciplinary Interest Group
Disciplines: Stratigraphy, Sediments, Clastic, Tectonics/
Disciplines: Soils, Hydrogeology, Environmental Geoscience Tectonophysics
Advocates: Emma Jayne Harrison; Madelyn S. Percy Advocates: William A. Thomas; George Gehrels; Emily S. Finzel;
Brian A. Hampton
An exploration of new, interdisciplinary approaches to the
study of soil formation and the distribution of soil nutrients in a Detrital zircons document the tectonic components of sediment
variety of climates, biomes, and parent material types. sources, as well as dispersal pathways across the North American
continental interior during the last 1.3 billion years. Contributions
will address various scales, ages, and locations of dispersal systems.
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