Pluvial lakes offer insights
What does the rise and fall of latest Pleistocene pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin have to tell us about water and carbon cycles, landscape response to climate change, and how the role the continents play in modulating habitable surface conditions over geologic time?
Beats me, but Daniel Enrique Ibarra, visiting assistant professor of environment and society at Brown University, has some thoughts about the subject. And he will share them at the next presentation of the Geologists of Jackson Hole, set for 6 p.m. Jan. 19 via Zoom.
“Early geologists documented extensive lacustrine shoreline deposits in many terminal basins of the Great Basin,” GeologistsOfJacksonHole.org writes, “and in doing so formally documented evidence for many classic Earth science concepts including uniformitarianism, isostasy and diastrophism, and glacial-interglacial cycles.”