Session YSM 05

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Image credit: L. von Gunten

Chronology

Convenors

Alberto ReyesChris Turney

Description

Chronology is crucial to paleoresearch and often constrains the strength of conclusions based on paleoenvironmental reconstructions. This session supports efforts to improve tools for absolute and relative dating, and to enhance the reliability of reference timescales, as well as encourage creative new approaches to solving chronology issues.

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Talks and Posters

Talks

Tuesday, 12 February 12:30 - 12:45
Chair: Alberto Reyes

12:30 - 12:45
U-Pb age model for an Early Pleistocene stalagmite from Corchia Cave (Italy)

Petra Bajo, Russell Drysdale, Jon Woodhead, John Hellstrom, Giovanni Zanchetta

Posters

Display: Monday, 11 February and Tuesday, 12 February
Author attendance: Tuesday 15:00 - 16:00
Chair: Alberto Reyes

Chronology of deposition of coastal Red dunes (Teri sands) in South India and its palaeoenvironmental implications
Linto Alappat, P. Morthekai, A.Vidyasagar, S. Srinivasalu, D. V. Reddy, A.K. Singhvi

Dendrochronological studies in Nepal: Current status and future prospects
Narayan Prasad Gaire, Dinesh Raj Bhuju

Intercontinental Ash: The correlation of the Alaskan White River Ash to the European AD 860B tephra
Britta Jensen, Sean Pyne-O'Donnell, Gill Plunkett, Duane Froese, Paul Hughes, Jonathan Pilcher, Valerie Hall