2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 106 Monday, 23 October 2006
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 110 AB

T106. Devonian–Early Carboniferous Climate Change: Glacial Deposits and Proxy Records

Peter Isaacson and Thomas Algeo, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
106-11:40 PM LATE DEVONIAN AND EARLY CARBONIFEROUS GLACIATIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA: CAPUTO, Mário Vicente, Departament of Geology, Universidade Federal do Pará, Av. Gov. Magalhães Barata, 1012, Belém - Pará, 66063-240, Brazil, caputo@interconect.com.br, MELO, José Henrique Gonçalves, Petrobras, CIDADE UNIVERSITÁRIA-Quadra 7 - ILHA DO FUNDÃO, Rio de Janeiro, Rio, 21949-900, Brazil, and VAZ, Luiz Ferreira, Themag Engenharia e Gerenciamento LTDa, Rua Bela Cintra, 986, 14 andar, São Paulo - SP, 01415-906, Brazil
106-22:00 PM HOW-MANY PALYNOLOGICALLY CONSTRAINED GLACIAL EVENTS DURING THE LATE DEVONIAN AND MISSISSIPPIAN OF GONDWANA: STREEL, Maurice J., Paléobotanique, Paléopalynologie et Micropaléontologie, Université de Liège, Bât. B18 - Sart Tilman, Liège, B-4000, Belgium, maurice.streel@ulg.ac.be and ISAACSON, Peter E., Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 838443022
106-32:20 PM PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS OF LATE DEVONIAN GLACIAL DEPOSITS FROM THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: BREZINSKI, David K., Maryland Geol Survey, 2300 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, dbrezinski@dnr.state.md.us, CECIL, C. Blaine, US Geol Survey, Reston, VA 20192, and SKEMA, Victoras M., Pennsylvania Geological Survey (retired), Middletown, PA 17057
106-42:35 PM LATE DEVONIAN EVENTS AS CONSEQUENCES OF GLACIATION: A REVIEW: ISAACSON, P.E. and GRADER, G.W., Moscow, ID
106-52:50 PM TRANSITIONAL UPPER DEVONIAN STRATIGRAPHY IN IDAHO—A RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL GEOHISTORY SUGGESTS COMPLEX DISCONFORMITIES ON A LOW LATITUDE WESTERN EURAMERICAN MARGIN: GRADER, George, W., Geology, Univ of Idaho, 1066 Nearing Road, Moscow, ID 83843, grad9475@uidaho.edu and ISAACSON, Peter, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3022
106-63:05 PM MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY, BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: INSIGHTS INTO LATE DEVONIAN SEA LEVEL AND CLIMATE CHANGE, WESTERN CANADA: WHALEN, Michael T., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 755780, Fairbanks, AK 99775, mtwhalen@gi.alaska.edu, DAY, James E., Geography-Geology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4400, MISSLER, Rebecca J., Geology & Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. BOX 755780, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5780, and OVER, D. Jeffrey, Department of Geological Sciences, SUNY-Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454-1401
106-73:20 PM EXTINCTION PATTERNS OF WESTERN LAURUSSIAN TROPICAL BENTHIC FAUNAS SUGGEST INTENSIFICATION OF LATIDUINAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT AND RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE AS MAJOR CAUSE OF LATE FRASNIAN KELLWASSER EXTINCTIONS: DAY, James E., Geography-Geology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4400, jeday@ilstu.edu and WHALEN, Michael T., Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775
106-83:35 PM GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FOR MAJOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE DURING THE HANGENBERG MASS-EXTINCTION EVENT: KAISER, Sandra I., State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, Stuttgart, 70191, Germany, kaiser.smns@naturkundemuseum-bw.de, STEUBER, Thomas, Petroleum Geoscience, The Petroleum Institute, P.O. Box 2533, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and BECKER, R. Thomas, Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Corrensstr. 24, Muenster, 48149, Germany
106-93:50 PM WOODY PLANT GROWTH AS A PROXY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY: SCHECKLER, Stephen E., Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0406, stephen@vt.edu
106-104:10 PM MISSISSIPPIAN CLIMATE IN THE LIGHT OF OXYGEN AND CARBON ISOTOPES OF CONODONTS AND CARBONATE ROCKS: BUGGISCH, Werner and JOACHIMSKI, Michael M., Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Erlangen, Schlossgarten 5, Erlangen, 91054, Germany, buggisch@geol.uni-erlangen.de
106-114:30 PM CHALLENGES TO EARLY-MIDDLE DEVONIAN GR EENHOUSE CLIMATE INTERPRETATIONS: OXYGEN ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FROM CONODONT APATITE: ELRICK, Maya, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, dolomite@unm.edu, ATUDOREI, Viorel, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, SHARP, Zachary, Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, and KLAPPER, Gilbert, 1010 Eastwood Road, Glencoe, IL 60022-1125
106-124:45 PM KINDERHOOKIAN-OSAGEAN CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSION (A MARINE OR TERRESTRIAL ORGANIC MATTER BURIAL EVENT?) AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CLIMATE AND LAND PLANT EVOLUTION: GILL, Benjamin, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, bgill003@ucr.edu, LYONS, Timothy W., Dept of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 1432 Geology, Riverside, CA 92521-0423, KUMP, Lee R., Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, and SALTZMAN, Matthew R., Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State Univ, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
106-135:00 PM PALEOPRODUCTIVITY AND GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES: INDICATORS OF WATER-COLUMN CONDITIONS, FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY, NEW ALBANY SHALE, INDIANA: DE LA RUE, Sarah R., Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, E-235 Howe-Russell, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4101, sdelarue@geol.lsu.edu, RIMMER, Susan M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Slone Research Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, and ROWE, Harold D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Slone Research Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053
106-145:15 PM MILANKOVITCH CYCLICITY IN THE OHIO AND SUNBURY SHALES: ASTRONOMICAL CALIBRATION OF THE LATE DEVONIAN-EARLY CARBONIFEROUS TIMESCALE: ALGEO, Thomas, University of Cincinnati, P. O. Box 210013, Cincinnati, OH 45221, Thomas.Algeo@uc.edu, HINNOV, Linda, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, hinnov@jhu.edu, and OVER, D. Jeffrey, Department of Geological Sciences, State Univ of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454

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