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. 126
Sunday, 5 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

T49. What Good Are (Fossil) Plants Anyway? New Methods for Investigating Old Problems

Paleontological Society; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

 

Caroline A.E. Stromberg and Matthew J. Kohn, Advocates
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8:00 AM
The Taxon-Free Approach to Paleobotanical Meta Analysis
GREEN, Walton A., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution [NHB, MRC 121], P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, wagreen@bricol.net, wagreen@bricol.net
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8:20 AM
Multiple Proxies Provide Paleoecology, Paleoclimate, and Paleolandscape Reconstructions for the Late Oligocene of Northwestern Ethiopia
JACOBS, Bonnie F.1, TABOR, Neil2, PAN, Aaron D.3, MASSINI, Juan L. Garcia1 and WIEMANN, Michael C.4, (1)Huffington Dept. Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, PO Box 750395, Dallas, TX 75275, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, P.O. Box 750395, Dallas, TX 75275-0395, (3)Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, 1501 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107, (4)Center for Wood Anatomy Research, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Drive, Madison, WI 53726-2398, bjacobs@mail.smu.edu, bjacobs@mail.smu.edu
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8:35 AM
Aquatic Plants of the Eocene Republic, Washington Flora and Their Significance to Interpreting Ancient Lacustrine Environments
DEVORE, Melanie L., Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA 31061 and PIGG, Kathleen B., School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, melanie.devore@gcsu.edu, melanie.devore@gcsu.edu
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8:50 AM
New Interpretations of An Old Data Source: Fossil Pollen and the Reconstruction of Neotropical Quaternary Paleoclimate
PUNYASENA, Surangi W., Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, 505 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, punyasena@life.illinois.edu, punyasena@life.illinois.edu
 
9:05 AM
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9:20 AM
Leaf-Wax Lipid Hydrogen Isotope Ratios as a Paleohydrologic Proxy: Environmental and Taxonomic Controls
MCINERNEY, Francesca A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 and FREEMAN, Katherine, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ, Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, cesca@earth.northwestern.edu, cesca@earth.northwestern.edu
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9:40 AM
Paleoelevation Reconstruction of the Sierra Nevada from Compound-Specific Stable Isotopes of Fossil Leaves
HREN, Michael T., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, KGL 210 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, PAGANI, Mark, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale Univ, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520, BRANDON, Mark, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 and ERWIN, Diane M., University of California Museum of Paleontology, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, michael.hren@yale.edu, michael.hren@yale.edu
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9:55 AM
C4 Ecosystems in Montana Throughout the Neogene
SHELDON, Nathan D., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, nsheldon@umich.edu, nsheldon@umich.edu
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10:10 AM
Leaf Tissue Degradation and Impact on Isotopic Signals during Natural Decay of Metasequoia Glyptostroboides
LENG, Qin, LPS, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 Eastern Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China and YANG, Hong, College of Arts and Sciences, Bryant University, 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917, qin.leng@nigpas.ac.cn, qin.leng@nigpas.ac.cn
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10:25 AM
New Limits for Combustion in Low Oxygen Redefine Paleoatmospheric Predictions for the Mesozoic
BELCHER, Claire M. and MCELWAIN, Jennifer C., School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, claire.belcher@ucd.ie, claire.belcher@ucd.ie
 
10:40 AM
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10:55 AM
Digital Leaf Physiognomy: A Multivariate Technique for Reconstructing Climate from Fossil Leaves
ROYER, Dana L.1, PEPPE, Daniel J.1, CARIGLINO, Barbara2, WILF, Peter2, JOHNSON, Kirk3 and IGLESIAS, Ari2, (1)Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT 06459, (2)Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA 16802, (3)Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO 80205, droyer@wesleyan.edu, droyer@wesleyan.edu
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11:15 AM
Some Like It Hot: The Correlation Between Temperature and Insect Herbivory during the Paleocene and Eocene in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA
CURRANO, Ellen D.1, LABANDEIRA, Conrad C.2, WILF, Peter3 and WING, Scott L.2, (1)Department of Geosciences, Penn State, 534 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, (2)Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, (3)Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, ecurrano@geosc.psu.edu, ecurrano@geosc.psu.edu
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11:30 AM
A Model for Assimilation and Transpiration In Extinct Plants
WILSON, Jonathan P., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Botanical Museum 51, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, jpwilson@fas.harvard.edu, jpwilson@fas.harvard.edu
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11:45 AM
Atmospheric CO2 through Oceanic Anoxic Event II, Late Cretaceous (94Ma)
BARCLAY, Richard, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, MCELWAIN, Jennifer C., School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland and SAGEMAN, Bradley B., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2150, barclay@earth.northwestern.edu, barclay@earth.northwestern.edu
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