Earth System Processes 2 (8–11 August 2005)
Session No. 15 Tuesday, August 9, 2005
1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Westin Hotel: Lakeview Endrooms

T8. Paleogene Biota and Climates of Western North America: Atmospheric, Biological, and Geological Processes on a Warm World

David Greenwood and S. Bruce Archibald, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
15-11:30 PM KEYNOTE: REBOUNDING PLANT DIVERSITY WITHIN A DYNAMIC PALEOGENE WORLD: EXAMPLES FROM NORTHWESTERN, NORTH AMERICA: SWEET, Arthur R., Natural Resources Canada, Geol Survey of Canada, 3303 – 33 Street NW, Room 2207, Calgary T2L 2A7, asweet@nrcan.gc.ca.
15-22:10 PM EOCENE GIANT LACEWINGS (NEUROPTERA: POLYSTOECHOTIDAE) FROM THE OKANAGAN HIGHLANDS (BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA AND WASHINGTON STATE, USA), FLORISSANT (COLORADO, USA), AND DENMARK: ARCHIBALD, S. Bruce, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, barchibald@oeb.harvard.edu and MAKARKIN, Vladimir N., Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
15-32:30 PM THE MIDDLE EOCENE PRINCETON CHERT FLORA: THE MONOCOTS: SMITH, Selena Y. and STOCKEY, Ruth A., Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, CW 405, Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, sysmith@ualberta.ca
 2:50 PM Break
15-43:10 PM PLANT FOSSILS FROM THE KANAKA CREEK BEDS, SOUTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA: PALEOCENE OR EOCENE?: MATHEWES, Rolf W., Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, r_mathewes@sfu.ca, MUSTARD, Peter S., Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, and ROUSE, Glenn E., Geology & Botany (emeritus), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
15-53:30 PM HIGH RESOLUTION PALYNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF EOCENE LAMINATED SEDIMENTS FROM THE HORSEFLY LOCALITY, OKANAGAN HIGHLANDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA: MOSS, Patrick T., School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, patrick.moss@uq.edu.au, GREENWOOD, David, Brandon Univ, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9, Canada, greenwoodd@brandonu.ca, and ARCHIBALD, S. Bruce, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
15-63:50 PM ULMUS FROM THE EARLY-MIDDLE EOCENE OF PACIFIC NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA: SYSTEMATICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CHARACTER EVOLUTION WITHIN ULMACEAE: DENK, Thomas, Department of Paleobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm, 10405, Sweden, thomas.denk@nrm.se and DILLHOFF, Richard M., Evolving Earth Foundation, PO Box 2090, Issaquah, WA 98027, rdillhoff@evolvingearth.org
15-74:10 PM PALEOGENE FOREST COMMUNITIES AND CLIMATES OF WESTERN AND ARCTIC CANADA: GREENWOOD, David R., Environmental Science, Brandon University, 270-18th Street, Brodie Science Building, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9, greenwoodd@brandonu.ca and BASINGER, James F., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada

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