PP021
Interpretation of paleoenvironmental proxies: diagnosing diagenesis and assessing proxy reliability
Interpretation of paleoenvironmental proxies: diagnosing diagenesis and assessing proxy reliability
Session ID#: 77709
Session Description:
Information about past climate change is derived from interpretations of paleoenvironments made by many different proxies. Proxies are measurable physical, chemical, and biological materials that respond to environmental variables including temperature, salinity, redox conditions, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, surface water carbon dioxide concentrations, and nutrients. All of our understanding for past climates and environments before the onset of human-based historical records comes from proxies, which makes diagnosing proxy reliability critical. Proxies are commonly altered after being incorporated into geologic archives and are subject to diagenesis, alteration, and maturation that change the original records of paleoenvironment. Our ability to derive reliable information comes from understanding the response of the proxy to environmental factors and the level of preservation in the geologic archive. We welcome contributions dedicated to exploring the identification and impact of diagenesis on the original paleoenvironmental factors recorded by proxies as well as techniques to correct for diagenetic alteration.
Co-Organized:
- EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- OS - Ocean Sciences
- P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:
0419 Biomineralization [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0454 Isotopic composition and chemistry [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0473 Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
4994 Instruments and techniques [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Primary Convener: Anastasia Yanchilina, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Conveners: Jordan Wostbrock, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Vanessa Fichtner, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States and Julie Griffin, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Anastasia Yanchilina, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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