USGS Open-File Report 94-588

Pliocene High-Latitude Climate Records

Abstracts from a USGS Workshop, Herndon Virginia, July 25-27, 1994

1994

This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Contents:

1. Introduction (S.E. Ishman)

2. Beetle and seed fossils from the Meyer Desert Formation, Sirius Group: New records for Antarctica (A.C. Ashworth, D.M. Harwood, P.N. Webb)

3. PRISM reconstructions of SST and sea ice in the Southern Ocean (J.A. Barron)

4. Warm Pliocene high sea-level records from Arctic Alaska and possible implications for Antarctic ice volume 2.8-2.2 Ma (J. Brigham-Grette, L.D. Carter, L. Marincovich, E. Brouwers, D.M. Hopkins)

5. Global climate model simulations of the Middle Pliocene, continued (M.A. Chandler)

6. The Pliocene record in the central Arctic Ocean (D.L. Clark)

7. Middle Pliocene planktonic foraminifer assemblage from ODP Site 704: Paleoceanographic implications (H.J. Dowsett)

8. North Atlantic deep water temperature change during late Pliocene and Quaternary climatic cycles (G.S. Dwyer and T.M. Cronin)

9. Evidence of Pliocene Nothofagus in Antarctica from DSDP/ODP cores (R.F. Fleming and J.A. Barron)

10. Solved and unsolved paleogeographic problems of the sub-Arctic Pliocene of Russia (Yuri B. Gladenkov)

11. Sea-ice absence and 3° C marine seas--Is this all it takes? (D.M. Harwood, A. Srivastav, and D.M. Winter)

12. The palynological record of Antarctic Neogene vegetation (D.M. Harwood and X. Jiang)

13. A review of Pliocene Antarctic paleoclimate and ice sheet response to global warmth (D.M. Harwood and P.N. Webb)

14. Pliocene Nothofagus of the Sirius Group, Transantarctic Mountains (R.S. Hill)

15. Paleoclimatic implications of a late Neogene Antarctic marginal marine record (S.E. Ishman)

16. Pliocene of Northwind Ridge, western Arctic Ocean (R.Z. Poore, R.L. Phillips, D. Schneider, and S.E. Ishman)

17. Review of the deep-sea oxygen isotope record regarding early Pliocene Antarctic deglaciation (M. Prentice)

18. Modeling of mid-Pliocene climate with the NCAR Genesis GCM (L.C. Sloan)

19. Pliocene vegetation and climate in Arctic Russia (R.S. Thompson)

20. Major deglaciation of East Antarctica during the early late Pliocene? Not likely: Evidence from the sub-Antarctic South Atlantic (D.A. Warnke, D.A. Hodell, and K. Venz)

21. Recent progress in the investigation of late Neogene records adjacent to the east Antarctic craton-west Antarctic rift system lithosphere boundary (P.N. Webb, D.M. Harwood, B.C. McKelvey, and M.G.C. Mabin)

22. A direct, high-resolution, Southern Hemisphere record of late Neogene glacioeustasy, important constraints and a possible stratotype for ice volume, sea-level, and climate change (G.S. Wilson)

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