Session No. 169 Tuesday, October 29, 2002

1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Colorado Convention Center: Ballroom 4
T8. Evolution of the Early Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere I: Constraints from Ore Deposits
Hiroshi Ohmoto, Stephen Kesler and Michael M. Kimberley, Presiding
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169-11:30 PM NATURAL NUCLEAR FISSION REACTORS: TIME CONSTRAINTS FOR OCCURRENCE, AND THEIR RELATION TO URANIUM AND MANGANESE DEPOSITS AND TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE: GAUTHIER-LAFAYE, F., Centre de Géochimie de la Surface - CNRS. EOST-ULP, 1, rue Blessig, Strasbourg 67084 France, gauthier@illite.u-strasbg.fr.
169-21:50 PM THE REDOX-SENSITIVE TRACE ELEMENTS, MO, U AND RE IN PRECAMBRIAN CARBONACEOUS SHALES: INDICATORS OF THE GREAT OXIDATION EVENT: YANG, Wenbo and HOLLAND, Heinrich D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard Univ, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, yang@eps.harvard.edu
169-32:05 PM MOLYBDENUM GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE IN THE ARCHEAN: YAMAGUCHI, Kosei E., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, and Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, 2-15 Natsushima, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan, kosei@geology.wisc.edu and OHMOTO, Hiroshi, Astrobiology Research Center, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA 16802
169-42:20 PM IRON FORMATIONS: WHY THE MYSTERY PERSISTS: KIMBERLEY, Michael M., Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, NC State Univ, Box 8208 NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, kimberley@ncsu.edu.
169-52:35 PM ORDOVICIAN AND EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN IRON FORMATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS, BATHURST, NEW BRUNSWICK AND FINLAYSON LAKE AREA, YUKON: CONSTRAINTS ON DEPOSITIONAL SETTING AND MINERALIZING CONDITIONS: PETER, Jan M., Mineral Resources Division, Geol Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8 Canada, jpeter@nrcan.gc.ca.
169-62:50 PM INFLUENCE OF THE MICROBIAL IRON CYCLE ON BIF DEPOSITION: BROWN, D. Ann, A & A Research, Old Moorcocks, Rushlake Green, Heathfield TN21 9PP United Kingdom, ann@a2-research.fsnet.co.uk.
169-73:05 PM COULD BACTERIA FORM PRECAMBRIAN BANDED IRON FORMATIONS?: KONHAUSER, Kurt O., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3 Canada, kurtk@ualberta.ca.
169-83:20 PM COULD CYANOBACTERIA HAVE PROVIDED THE SOURCE OF OXIDANTS FOR BANDED IRON FORMATION?: BLANK, Carrine, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington Univ, Campus Box 1169, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, blank@levee.wustl.edu.
169-93:35 PM IRON ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION IN THE SYSTEM FE(III)-FE(II)-HEMATITE-MAGNETITE-FE CARBONATE, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF BANDED IRON FORMATIONS: JOHNSON, Clark1, BEARD, Brian1, WELCH, Sue1, and RODEN, Eric2, (1) Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, clarkj@geology.wisc.edu, (2) Biological Sciences, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
169-103:50 PM THE ECOSYSTEMS IN SUBMARINE HYDROTHERMAL ENVIRONMENTS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD 2.7 BILLION YEARS AGO: WATANABE, Yumiko and OHMOTO, Hiroshi, Astrobiology Research Center & Dept. of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State Univ, 435 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802, yumiko@geosc.psu.edu
169-114:05 PM SUPERGENE AND HYPOGENE HEMATITIZATION EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH PALEOPROTEROZOIC IRON AND MANGANESE ORES, SOUTH AFRICA: EVANS, David A.D.1, BEUKES, Nicolas J.2, GUTZMER, Jens2, and KIRSCHVINK, Joseph L.3, (1) Tectonics Special Research Centre, Dept of Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, dai.evans@yale.edu, (2) Department of Geology, Rand Afrikaans Univ, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa, (3) Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, 170-25, Pasadena, CA 91125
169-124:20 PM OXYGEN ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF HEMATITE IN BIF-HOSTED HIGH-GRADE IRON ORES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE COMPOSITION OF PALEOPROTEROZOIC METEORIC WATER: GUTZMER, Jens1, BEUKES, Nicolas J.1, MUKHOPADHYAY, Joydip1, PACK, Andreas2, HAYASHI, Ken-ichiro3, and SHARP, Zachary4, (1) Department of Geology, Rand Afrikaans Univ, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa, jg@na.rau.ac.za, (2) Institut fuer Mineralogie und Geochemie, Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicher Strasse 49b, Cologne, 50674, Germany, (3) Department of Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic Geology, Tohoku Univ, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan, (4) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, 200 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131
169-134:35 PM GIANT BANDED IRON FORMATION-HOSTED PALEOPROTEROZOIC HEMATITE DEPOSITS FROM AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND BRAZIL: TOWARDS A UNIFIED MODEL: BARLEY, Mark E., School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The Univ of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009 Australia, mbarley@geol.uwa.edu.au.
 4:55 PM Discussion

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