2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)
Session No. 170 Tuesday, November 4, 2003
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Washington State Convention and Trade Center: Ballroom 6B

P5. Preservation of Random Mega-Scale Events on Mars and Earth: Influence on Geologic History

Mary G. Chapman and Lazlo Keszthelyi, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
170-11:35 PM THE SURFACE OF MARS: AN UNUSUAL LABORATORY THAT PRESERVES AND RECORDS UNUSUAL/CATASTROPHIC EVENTS: CHAPMAN, Mary G., Astrogeology Team, U.S. Geol Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, mchapman@usgs.gov.
170-21:55 PM DIFFICULTIES IN UNRAVELING CAUSE AND EFFECT OF NON-UNIFORM EVENTS IN EARTH HISTORY: INTERPRETING GLOBAL CATASTROPHE EVENT MECHANISMS: WARD, Peter D., Biology, Univ of Washingotn, Kincaid Hall, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, argo@u.washington.edu.
170-32:15 PM IMPACT CRATERING PROCESSES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON EARTH AND MARS: KRING, David A., Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Univ Arizona, 1629 E. University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721-0092, kring@LPL.arizona.edu.
170-42:35 PM MEGAFLOODS AND GLOBAL PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON MARS AND EARTH: BAKER, Victor R., Hydrology and Water Resources, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0011, baker@hwr.arizona.edu.
170-52:55 PM SUB-ICE VOLCANISM: HYDRAULICS, EDIFICE STRUCTURES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MARS EXAMPLES: SMELLIE, John L., Geological Sciences Division, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, jlsm@bas.ac.uk.
 3:15 PM Break
170-63:30 PM PLANETARY GAS EMISSIONS: MAGMA DECASSING BY FLOOD LAVA ERUPTIONS ON EARTH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR VOLCANIC GAS EMISSIONS ON MARS: THORDARSON, Thor, Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Hawaii at manoa, 1680 East-West Road, Post Building, Honolulu, HI 96822, moinui@soest.hawaii.edu.
170-73:50 PM SUPER-ERUPTIONS: EFFECTS ON CLIMATE AND LIFE OF THE LARGEST EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONS: RAMPINO, Michael R., Earth & Environmental Science Program, New York Univ, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, mrr1@nyu.edu.
170-84:10 PM LARGE-SCALE ICE-VOLCANO INTERACTION: POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF LARGE SILICIC CALDERA-FORMING ERUPTIONS AND SUPERPLUME EVENTS UNDER ICE SHEETS: GUDMUNDSSON, Magnús T., Science Institute, Univ of Iceland, Hofsvallagata 53, 107 Reykjavik Iceland, mtg@hi.is.
170-94:30 PM MEGA-SCALE EVENTS: NATURAL DISASTERS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR: KIEFFER, Susan W., Department of Geology, Univ of Illinois, 1301 West Green St, Urbana, IL 61801, skieffer@uiuc.edu, BARTON, Paul, Research Geologist Emeritus, U.S. Geol Survey, M.S. 954, Reston, VA 20192, PALMER, A.R., Institute for Cambrian Studies, 445 N. Cedarbrook Rd, Boulder, CO 80304, REITAN, Paul H., Department of Geology, Univ at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, and ZEN, E-an, Dept. of Geology, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
 4:50 PM Discussion

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