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Text Box: AMQUA 18th Biennial Meeting, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KANSAS JUNE 26-28, 2004

 

 

Text Box: The complex prairie/forest boundary in northwestern Nebraska. Photo by Dan Muhs. Text Box: The 18th Biennial Meeting of AMQUA will be held at the Student Union of the University of Kansas (KU), Lawrence, Kansas, June 26-28, 2004. Lawrence is located on the forest-prairie border about 40 miles west of Kansas City. Kansas City International Airport (KCI) is about 15 miles north of downtown Kansas City, Missouri and is serviced by all major airlines.  Several private shuttle companies provide frequent service between KCI and Lawrence. Affordable housing will be available at Oliver Hall on the KU campus, and there are many hotels in Lawrence. Rolfe Mandel (Kansas Geological Survey; mandel@kgs.ku.edu) is the Local Chair and Field Trip Coordinator. Details on the meeting will be provided in future announcements. The theme for the 18th AMQUA Biennial Meeting is “Quaternary Grassland/Forest Dynamics.”  The Program Committee consists of Art Bettis (chair), Dick Baker, Sheri Fritz, Eric Grimm, Steve Leavitt, Lee Nordt, and Bonnie Styles.  Tentative proposed oral sessions include: 1) Neogene evolution of grassland communities, 2) controls on grassland/forest border communities, 3) grassland/forest dynamics across glacial/interglacial cycles, and 4) human adaptations to the grassland/forest boundary.  We welcome suggestions for additional session topics and for invited speakers to address these topics from the membership.  Please send all suggestions and comments to Art Bettis at art-bettis@uiowa.edu. This year’s meeting will include a session of volunteered papers, in addition to the traditional format of invited papers.  Authors will have the option of submitting their abstracts to the pool of contributed oral presentation; the program committee will select which papers best fit the meeting’s theme. Abstract forms will be made available in the next newsletter this coming winter, and on AMQUA’s web page: http://www4.nau.edu/amqua/. To make room for the new session, the meeting’s length is being extended to 3 full days.    Pre-Meeting Field Trips Trip  No. 1: “Eolian Systems of the Midcontinent, USA” (Thursday, June 24 through Friday, June 25, 2004)     Leaders: Art Bettis, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa; Joe Mason Geography Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Xiaodong Miao, Paul R. Hanson, and Ronald J. Goble, Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Peter M. Jacobs, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; and Helen M. Roberts, Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales This trip highlights eolian sedimentary systems of the midcontinent USA. Loess and eolian sand sedimentary systems, including glaciogenic, valley-source, loess systems of the Missouri and Platte valleys, and non-glaciogenic systems of central Nebraska. The trip includes visits to classic and recently investigated sections and discussions of Laurentide ice sheet behavior reflected in loess, atmospheric circulation patterns indicated by loess and eolian sand, and geochemical fingerprinting of loess source areas. Also, there will be stops at the Loveland Loess type section in western Iowa, the thickest last-glacial (MIS 2) loess in the world at Bignell Hill in Nebraska, and a spectacular section of Holocene loess in western Nebraska.    Trip No. 2: “Late Quaternary Biogeography and Paleoecology along the Prairie-Forest Border” (Friday, June 25, 2004). Leaders: Glen Fredlund, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Dick Baker, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa The world-famous Konza Prairie near Manhattan, Kansas will be visited in the morning, where participants will observe and hear from the staff about the dynamics of prairie vegetation.  The South Fork of the Big Nemaha River near the Kansas-Nebraska border will be visited in the afternoon.  There will be opportunities to see pollen and plant macrofossil sites representing both alluvial and wetland deposits and discuss their interpretation.  The Farwell section illustrates the setting of alluvial sediments of both Holocene and mid-Wisconsinan age, and the Miles Fan cutbanks expose mainly wetland deposits, including peat, ranging in age from about 28,000 to 19,000 14C yr. B.P.   POST-Meeting Field Trips Trip No. 3: “Multiple Pre-Illinoian Tills and Associated Sediments and Paleosols, Northeastern Kansas and Central Missouri” ( Monday afternoon, June 28 through Tuesday, June 29, 2004)  Leaders: Wakefield Dort, Jr., Department of Geology, University of Kansas; Charles W. Rovey, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning, Southwest Missouri State University; James Aber, Earth Science Department, Emporia State University Participants on this field trip will examine the lithologic and pedologic stratigraphy of glacigenic deposits that record the maximum expansion of the Pre-Illinoian ice sheets. Deposits include sediments with both normal and reversed magnetic polarity; thus they span the Brunhes/Matayama boundary of 0.78 mya. Stops will be made at localities in northeastern Kansas, including the type section of the Independence Formation, and in central Missouri.   Trip No. 4: “Late-Quaternary Alluvial Stratigraphy and Geoarchaeology in the Central Great Plains” (Monday afternoon, June 28 through Wednesday, June 30, 2004)  Leaders: Rolfe Mandel, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas; Jack Hofman, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas; Leland Bement, Oklahoma Archaeological Survey, University of Oklahoma This trip focuses on Holocene and late Wisconsinan alluvial stratigraphy, including buried soils, in the central Great Plains of Kansas and extreme northern Oklahoma. Stops will be made at impressive, radiocarbon-dated sections of alluvium composing terrace fills and alluvial fans in large stream valleys, including the Smoky Hill and Cimarron valleys, and in “draws” high in drainage networks. Also, several major Paleoindian sites that have been the focus geoarchaeological investigations, including Claussen (Late Paleoindian), Simshauser (Folsom?), Waugh (Folsom), Cooper (Folsom bison kill), and Jake Bluff (Clovis), will be visited.  

 

 

 

 

 

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