Earth System Processes 2 (8–11 August 2005)
Session No. 8 Monday, August 8, 2005
1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Westin Hotel: Bonavista

T5. Late Neoproterozoic Biospheric, Climate, and Evolutionary Events

Martin J. Kennedy and M.L. Droser, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
8-11:30 PM SEDIMENTARY, PETROGRAPHIC, AND GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FOR BENTHIC MICROBIAL MATS AND A REFINED MUDSTONE STRATIGRAPHY FOR THE NEOPROTEROZOIC KWAGUNT FORMATION, CHUAR GROUP, GRAND CANYON: JUNIUM, Christopher K., Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801, cjunium@geosc.psu.edu and BOHACS, Kevin M., ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, P.O Box 2189, Houston, TX 77252
8-21:50 PM FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PRESERVATION OF ORGANIC CARBON IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO FORMATION: BRISTOW, Thomas and KENNEDY, Martin J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, tbris001@student.ucr.edu
8-32:10 PM ANOXIA BETWEEN EDIACARAN FAUNA AND CAMBRIAN BIORADIATION: CARBON AND SULPHUR ISOTOPE STUDIES: GOLDBERG, Tatiana, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, University Münster, Corrensstr 24, Münster, 48149, Germany, tgold@uni-muenster.de, STRAUSS, Harald, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 24, Münster, 48149, Germany, and GUO, Qinjuin, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang
8-42:30 PM CARBON AND SULFUR ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR THE TERMINAL NEOPROTEROZOIC DEEP OCEAN OXYGENATION, HUQF SUPERGROUP, SULTANATE OF OMAN: FIKE, David A., Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., 54-812, Cambridge, MA 02139, dfike@mit.edu, GROTZINGER, John P., Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., 54-816, Cambridge, MA 02139, PRATT, Lisa M., Geological Sciences, Indiana Univ, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, ROTHMAN, Daniel H., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave., 54-626, Cambridge, MA 02139, and SUMMONS, Roger E., Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, E34-546, 42-44 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
 2:50 PM Break
8-53:10 PM CLAY MINERAL CONTROL OF THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN OXYGEN RISE: KENNEDY, Martin J., Department of Earth Science, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, martink@mail.ucr.edu, DROSER, M.L., Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, and MAYER, Lawrence M., Darling Marine Center, University of maine, Walpole, ME 04573
8-63:30 PM NEOPROTEROZOIC PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN: GAIDOS, Eric, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Hawaii, 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, gaidos@hawaii.edu.
8-73:50 PM ASSESSING POTENTIAL CLIMATIC IMPACTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF EARLY METAZOA: SOHL, Linda E. and CHANDLER, Mark A., Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, les14@columbia.edu
8-84:10 PM Paper Withdrawn

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