AASP Primary Records Program

KATHERINE H. CLISBY

Kathryn Clisby was an associate of Paul B. Sears at Oberlin College, Ohio. Apparently she ran the pollen lab, because she is thanked profusely in Sears' 1950 note. Kathryn Clisby hosted the Third National Pollen Conference in 1956 at Oberlin College, Ohio (Traverse and Sullivan, 1983).

The analysis of long sedimentary records of Quaternary and older sediments began in North America in 1956, with the publication of Kathryn Clisby's and Paul Sears' (1952, 1956) analysis of a series of cores taken in the San Agustin playa of western New Mexico, U.S.A. (Davis, 2004)

Clisby's palynological analyses were done as the marine isotopic studies of Cesare Emiliani (1955) were being published. Clisby believed the San Agustine Record reached the Bruhnes/ Matuyama boundary at 804 ft (unpublished). She compared the record to Emiliani's (1961) curves for the Calabrian type section, in her 1962 presentation at the First IPC (Clisby, 1962). See also her portion of the field trip guidebook for the Pollen Congress (Clisby, Foreman and Sears, 1962).

REFERENCES

Clisby, K.H. 1962.
An inperceptible Plio-Pleistocene boundary. Abstracts, Internat. Conf. Palynol., Tucson, Arizona., April 23-27, 1962 (pages not numbered). TEXT

Clisby, K. H., and P. B. Sears 1955.
Palynology in Southern North America, Part III: Microfossil Profiles Under Mexico City Correlated with the Sedimentary Profiles. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 66:511-520.

Clisby, K.H. and Sears, P.B. 1956.
San Agustin Plains - Pleistocene climatic changes. Science 124: 537-539.

Clisby, K.H. and Foreman, F. 1956.
Pleistocene climatic changes in New Mexico, U.S.A. Veroffentlichungen des Geobotanischen Institutes Rubel der Eidgenossischen Technischen Hochschule, Stiftung Rubel, Zurich 34 : 22-26

Clisby, K.H., Foreman, F. and Sears, P. B. . 1962.
Palynology - diastrophism - erosion. pp. 28-30 IN: International Pollen Conference field excursion guide: Pleistocene palynology of the arid southwest Arizona - New Mexico - Texas. 28 April - 2 May, 1962. Geochronology Laboratories, Tucson, Arizona.

Clisby, K. H., Foreman, F. and Sears, P. B. 1957.
Pleistocene climatic changes in New Mexico, U.S.A. Transactions of the Fourth International Session of the Botanical Quarternary 1957, from Geobotanisches Institut Rubel in Zurich, No. 34:21-26.

Davis, O.K. 2004.
Palynological records of Neogene climate and vegetation from interior western North American sites: an historical overview. pp. 251-252 in Domìnguez, E., Ubera, J.L., Diez, M.J., Galàn, C., Guarro, J., la Serna, I. Ruiz-Zapata, B., Infante, F., Romero, R., López-Pàrraga, E. 2004. XI International Palynological Congress. Polen vol. 4, 601 p.

Emiliani C., Mayeda T., Selli R. 1961.
Paleotemperature analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene section at le Castella, Calabria, southern Italy. Geological Society of America Bulletin 72:679–688.

Sears, P.B. 1950.
Pollen Analyses In Old and New Mexico. GSA Bulletin 61: 1171.

Sears, P.B., and Clisby, K.H. 1952.
Two long climate records. Science, v. 116, p. 176-178.

Traverse, A., Clisby, K. H. and Foreman, F. 1961.
Pollen in drilling-mud "thinners," a source of palynological contamination. Micropaleontology 7: 375-277.

Traverse, A. Sullivan, H.J. 1983.
The background, origin, and early history of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists. Palynology (7): 7-18.