[Sasnet] Call for abstracts - Session on E African Tectonics, Climate + Human Evolution (fwd)

[Bonnie A B Blackwell]

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Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Williams College,
& Director, RFK Research Institute

MA lab: Dept. of Chemistry, Williams College,             voice: 1-413-597-3337
        Williamstown, MA, 01267                             fax: 1-413-597-4115

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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:12:00 +0200
From: Martin Trauth <trauth at GEO.UNI-POTSDAM.DE>
To: QUATERNARY at CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA
Subject: Call for abstracts - Session on E African Tectonics,
     Climate + Human Evolution

dear colleagues,

beth christinsen, mark maslin, manfred strecker and myself will host
a session on east african climate, tectonics and human evolution at
the EGU General Assembly 2007. we hope to bring together
paleoclimatologists, paleoanthropologists and structural geologists
to discuss the evolution of the environment of our early ancestors.
we warmly welcome everybody to submit abstracts to this session! the
session is co-organized by GD14 "Rift-Link East Africa: Geodynamics -
Climate - Human Evolution".

http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?p_id=237

all the best

martin

Martin H. Trauth, Institut fuer Geowissenschaften, Universitaet Potsdam
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, 14476 Golm, Germany, Tel ++49-331-977-5810
http://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/mitarbeiter/trauth/trauth.html


EGU General Assembly 2007

Information - CL16 East African tectonics, climate and evolution
(co-organised by GD14, co-listed in TS & SSP)

Convenor: Martin Trauth
Co-Convenors: Beth Christensen, Mark Maslin, Manfred Strecker

Recent investigations of both terrestrial and marine paleoclimate
archives have led to a concerted debate regarding the nature of Late
Cenozoic environmental changes in East Africa, and its influence on
mammalian and hominin evolution. Since terrestrial records of East
African environmental change are typically rare, geographically
dispersed and incomplete, Indian and Atlantic Ocean sediment records
were used to reconstruct climatic changes in the region. However,
because of the unique tectonic and magmatic evolution of the East
African Rift System (EARS) and resulting changes in topography and
drainage patterns, marine sediment records may not necessarily
reflect contemporaneous environmental changes in East Africa. It is,
therefore, important to reach a better understanding of the processes
changing the habitat of mammals and hominins before suggesting
possible links between climate and faunal changes. This session
brings together structural geologists, paleoclimatologists, climate
modellers and paleoanthropologists to discuss tectonics-climate-
evolution interactions in a complex geologic setting.