Session No. 34 Thursday, April 4, 2002

1:20 PM-5:00 PM, Hyatt Regency Hotel: Regency Ballroom West
T20. Carboniferous Paleontology and Biostratigraphy
Glenn W. Storrs and Stephen F. Greb, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
34-01:20 PM LOWER MISSISSIPPIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF THE APPALACHIAN BASIN: UNRESOLVED LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC PROBLEMS: MATCHEN, David L., West Virginia Geol and Economic Survey, P. O. Box 879, Morgantown, WV 26507-0879, matchen@geosrv.wvnet.edu.
34-01:40 PM POSITION OF KINDERHOOKIAN-OSAGEAN BOUNDARY IN NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN OHIO: SANDBERG, Charles A., Geologist Emeritus, US Geol. Survey, Box 25046, MS 939, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046, sandberg@usgs.gov, MASON, Charles E., Department of Physical Sciences, Morehead State Univ, UPO Box 767, Morehead, KY 40351, and WORK, David M., Cincinnati Museum Ctr, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203
34-02:00 PM DIAGENESIS OF AN OOLITE-CARBONATE MOUND-TIDAL FLAT SEDIMENTARY SUCCESSION, MISSISSIPPIAN BANGOR LIMESTONE, NORTHERN ALABAMA: HAYWICK, Douglas W., Earth Sciences, Univ of South Alabama, LSCB 136, Mobile, AL 36688, dhaywick@jaguar1.usouthal.edu and KOPASKA-MERKEL, David C., Geol Survey of Alabama, P.O. Box 869999, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999
34-02:20 PM SEDIMENTOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF A CHESTERIAN TETRAPOD SITE, BUFFALO WALLOW GROUP, WESTERN KENTUCKY: CHESNUT, Donald R. Jr, Kentucky Geological Survey, 228 MMRB, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0107, chesnut@kgs.mm.uky.edu, GREB, Stephen F., Kentucky Geological Survey, Univ of Kentucky, 228 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0107, STORRS, Glenn W., Geier Collections and Research Center, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH 45203, GARCIA, William J., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221, and BELLAN, Jack, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Eastern Kentucky Univ, Richmond, KY 40475-3102
34-02:40 PM THE HANCOCK COUNTY VERTEBRATE FAUNA AND THE OLDEST TERRESTRIAL TETRAPODS FROM NORTH AMERICA: STORRS, Glenn W., Geier Collections and Research Center, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH 45203, storrsgw@email.uc.edu and GARCIA, William J., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221
 3:00 PM Break
34-03:20 PM EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN TETRAPOD ICHNITES OF WARREN CO., INDIANA: MONKS, Joe, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN 47907, monksj@purdue.edu.
34-03:40 PM XIPHOSURAN BEHAVIOR AND POPULATION DATA REPRESENTED BY TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE POTTSVILLE FORMATION (WESTPHALIAN A), UNION CHAPEL MINE: HOOD, Samuel, Geology, Georgia State Univ, 6670 Redfield Court, Acworth, GA 30102, trigonotarbida@yahoo.com.
34-04:00 PM BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE ‘7-11 MINE’ (DESMOINESIAN-MISSOURIAN: PENNSYLVANIAN:CARBONIFEROUS), COLUMBIANA COUNTY, EASTERN OHIO: EASTERDAY, Cary R., Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210, easterday.16@osu.edu.
34-04:20 PM PALYNOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COAL BEDS IN NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY: EBLE, Cortland F., Kentucky Geological Survey, 228 MMRB, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0107, eble@kgs.mm.uky.edu.
34-04:40 PM AN OCEANIC GATEWAY HYPOTHESIS FOR THE LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE: SALTZMAN, Matthew R., Geological Sciences, Ohio State Univ, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, Columbus, OH 43210, saltzman.11@osu.edu.

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