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| | 8:00 AM | Introductory Remarks |
| 209-1 | 8:05 AM | BIMODAL VOLCANISM AND RIFT BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE AWASH REGION, ETHIOPIA: HART, William K., Dept. of Geology, Miami Univ, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, hartwk@muohio.edu, WOLDEGABRIEL, Giday, Earth Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Lab, EES-6/MS D462, Los Alamos, NM 87545, RENNE, Paul R., Berkeley Geochronology Ctr/UC Berkeley, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, and WHITE, Tim D., Dept. of Integrative Biology, Univ. of California, 3060 VLSB, Berkeley, CA 94720 |
| 209-2 | 8:25 AM | GEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE OMO-TURKANA BASIN DURING THE PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE EPOCHS: BROWN, Francis H. and BROWN, Francis H., Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 S 1460 E, Rm 209, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0112, fbrown@mines.utah.edu |
| 209-3 | 8:45 AM | SEDIMENTARY PATTERNS IN THE PLIOCENE HADAR FORMATION, AFAR RIFT, ETHIOPIA: FEIBEL, Craig S., Geological Sciences and Anthropology, Rutgers Univ, 131 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414, feibel@rci.rutgers.edu and CAMPISANO, Christopher J., Anthropology, Rutgers Univ, 131 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 |
| 209-4 | 9:05 AM | THE GEOLOGY OF GONA: QUADE, Jay, Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, jquade@geo.arizona.edu, SEMAW, Sileshi, CRAFT CENTER, Indiana Univ, 419 N. Indiana, Bloomington, IN 47405, SIMPSON, Scott, Dept. of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve Univ, School of medicine, Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, RENNE, Paul, Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, berkeley, CA 94709, LEVIN, Naomi, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 717 Browning Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, and MCINTOSH, William, Dept. of Geoscience, New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801 |
| 209-5 | 9:20 AM | EARLY PLIOCENE ENVIRONMENTS AT GONA, ETHIOPIA: LEVIN, Naomi, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 S. 1460 East Rm 719, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, nlevin@mines.utah.edu, QUADE, Jay, Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, SIMPSON, Scott, Dept. of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve Univ, School of medicine, Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, and SEMAW, Sileshi, CRAFT Stone Age Institute, Indiana Univ, 1392 W. Dittemore Road, Gosport, IN 47433-9531 |
| 209-6 | 9:35 AM | INTEGRATING DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, AND FAUNAL ASSEMBLAGES: A NEW VIEW OF HADAR PALEOENVIRONMENTS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME: CAMPISANO, Christopher J., Anthropology, Rutgers Univ, 131 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414, cjcampi@rci.rutgers.edu. |
| 209-7 | 9:50 AM | GEOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF SEDIMENTS BELOW THE SIDI HAKOMA TUFF IN THE DIKIKA RESEARCH AREA, LOWER AWASH VALLEY, ETHIOPIA: WYNN, Jonathan G., School of Geography and Geosciences, Univ of St. Andrews, Irvine Building, St. Andrews, KY16 9AL, United Kingdom, jonathan.wynn@st-andrews.ac.uk, ROMAN, Diana C., School of Earth Sciences, Univ of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, and ALEMSEGED, Zeresenay, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutcher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany |
| 209-8 | 10:05 AM | DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE ONLINE DATABASE OF EAST AFRICAN TEPHRAS: ROMAN, Diana C., School of Earth Sciences, Univ of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, droman@earth.leeds.ac.uk and WYNN, Jonathan G., School of Geography and Geosciences, Univ of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9AL |
| 209-9 | 10:20 AM | PLIO-PLEISTOCENE VOLCANIC CENTERS IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS, DISTINGUISHED USING MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENT ABUNDANCES FROM TEPHRA LAYERS IN THE TURKANA BASIN: HAILEAB, Bereket, Geology, Carleton College, One North College Street, Northfield, MN 55057, bhaileab@carleton.edu. |
| 209-10 | 10:35 AM | GEOLOGIC SETTING OF THE ABDUR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, SOUTHERN RED SEA COAST, ERITREA, AFRICA: BUFFLER, Richard T., Institute for Geophysics, Univ of Texas at Austin, 4412 Spicewood Springs Rd #600, Austin, TX 78759-8500, rbuffler@hotmail.com, WALTER, Robert C., Department of Geosciences, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, GHEBRETENSAE, Berhane N., Department of Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, PO Box 272, Asmara, Eritrea, BRUGGEMANN, J. Henrich, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Marine, Universite de la Reunion, B.P. 7151, St. Denis, 97715, France, GUILLAUME, Mireille M.M., Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 Rue Buffou, Paris, 75005, BERHE, Seife M., African Minerals Inc, P.O. Box 5284, Asmara, Eritrea, and MCINTOSH, William, Dept. of Geoscience, New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801 |
| 209-11 | 10:50 AM | GEOLOGICAL MAPPING AND TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE HADAR FORMATION NEAR 11.25 N AND 40.75 E (AFAR REGION, ETHIOPIA): ARROWSMITH, J. Ramon1, REED, Kaye2, LOCKWOOD, Charles3, and JONES, Kenneth1, (1) Geological Sciences, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287, ramon.arrowsmith@asu.edu, (2) Anthropology and Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287, (3) Anthropology, Univ College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom |
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