2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
Session No. 183 Monday, 6 October 2008
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, George R. Brown Convention Center: 351BE

T46. Leaving Traces—Making Marks I: In Honor of H. Allen Curran (Paleontological Society; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)

Neil Tibert and Bosiljka Glumac, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
183-18:15 AM Temperature and Salinity Tolerance of Modern and Holocene Acropora Cervicornis from Barbados and the Dominican Republic: GREER, Lisa1, CURRAN, H. Allen2, DE WET, Carol B.3, TENEVA, Lida T.4, and RHEA, Elizabeth1, (1) Department of Geology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450, greerl@wlu.edu, (2) Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, (3) Earth and Environment, Franklin and Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604, (4) Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964
183-28:30 AM Bioerosion of the Pleistocene Key Largo Limestone In the Florida Keys: MARY, Michelle L. and EKDALE, Allan A., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 135 South 1460 East, Room 719 WBB, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0111, michelle.mary@utah.edu
183-38:45 AM Coral Reef Ed-Ventures: An Environmental Education Program for Children in San Pedro, Belize: ETHEREDGE, Susan, Department of Education and Child Study, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, sethered@email.smith.edu, PECKOL, Paulette, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, and CURRAN, H. Allen, Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063
183-49:00 AM Taphonomy and Ages of Bivalve Shells from San Salvador Island, Bahamas: PRUSS, Sara B., Dept. of Geology, Smith College, Clark Science Center, Northampton, MA 01063, spruss@email.smith.edu
183-59:15 AM Evolution of a Holocene Reef-Lagoon System: St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands: PARSONS-HUBBARD, Karla, Geology Dept, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, Karla.Hubbard@Oberlin.edu, BURKETT, Ashley, Geology, Muskingum College, 163 Stormont St, New Concord, OH 43762, CHAMLEE, Sarah, Forestry and Geology, University of the South, 735 University Ave, Sewanee, TN 37383, KLINMAN, Matthew, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Dept. of Geology, Haverford, PA 19041, TEMS, Caitlin, Dept. of Geology, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache la Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, and HUBBARD, Dennis, Department of Geology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074
183-69:30 AM The Use of Plant Trace Fossils to Differentiate Transgressive-Phase from Regressive-Phase Quaternary Eolian Calcarenites, San Salvador Island, Bahamas: BIRMINGHAM, Andrew N.1, CAREW, James L.2, and MYLROIE, John E.1, (1) Geosciences, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 5448, Mississippi State, MS 39762, anb259@msstate.edu, (2) Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424
183-79:45 AM North Atlantic Climate Variability Over the Holocene: Preliminary Analysis of Bermuda Historical Weather Data and Stable Isotope Time Series from Bermuda Stalagmites: GAURIN, Steven E., Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, 233 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, sgaurin@geo.umass.edu, BURNS, Stephen J., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst, 611 N. Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002, CHENG, Hai, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ. of Minnesota, 310 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, and EDWARDS, Lawrence, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Minnesota, 208A Pills H, 310 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
 10:00 AM Break
183-810:15 AM The first macroborings known from quartzite substrates: Trypanites in boulders from the Upper Cambrian Deadwood Formation, Black Hills of South Dakota: WILSON, Mark A., Department of Geology, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691-2363, mwilson@wooster.edu, JOHNSON, Markes E., Geosciences Dept, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, and REDDEN, Jack A., Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701-3995
183-910:30 AM The First Animals on Land: Al Curran(t) State of Knowledge: HAGADORN, James W., Department of Geology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, jwhagadorn@amherst.edu
183-1010:45 AM New Insights into Autecology of the Ordovician Strophomenid Brachiopod Rafinesquina from Ichnology, Epibionts, and Biomechanics: DATTILO, Benjamin F., Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, dattilob@ipfw.edu, MEYER, David L., Dept of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, and DEWING, Keith, Geol Survey of Canada, 3303-33rd St NW, Calgary, AB T2L 2A7, Canada
183-1111:00 AM Potential Evolutionary Significance of Meniscate Trace Fossils (Beaconites/Taenidium), from the Lowville Limestone (Upper Ordovician), Mohawk Valley, New York: TEGAN, Jennifer R., 208 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca, NY 14850, jtegan@cvf.biz and ALLMON, Warren D., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398
183-1211:15 AM Enigmatic Trace Fossils and Depositional Setting of the Clifty Formation (Devonian), Northwest Arkansas: BOSS, Stephen K., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arkansas, 113 Ozark Hall, Fayetteville, AR 72701, sboss@uark.edu and BLACKSTOCK, Joshua M., Earth Science, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, jmblackstock@ualr.edu
183-1311:30 AM Tracing the Meter- to Kilometer-Scale Carbonate Seafloor Topography Following the Alamo Impact Event, Late Devonian, Nevada: ANDERSON, Julia, Minnesota Geological Survey, 2642 University Ave. W, St. Paul, MN 55114-1057, and01006@umn.edu and TAPANILA, Leif, Department of Geosciences, Idaho State University, 921 S. 8th Ave. Stop 8072, Pocatello, ID 83209-8072, tapaleif@isu.edu

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