GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001

Session No. 159
Thursday, 8 November 2001: 8:15 AM-12:00 PM

Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography II

 

Hope Jahren and Anton E. Oleinik, Chairs
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8:15 AM
LINKAGES AMONG CLIMATE, TECTONICS, AND TERRESTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS FORT CRITTENDEN FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA
FINKELSTEIN, D. B.1, PRATT, L. M.1 and CURTIN, T. M.2, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th St, Bloomington, IN 47405, (2)Department of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, dafinkel@indiana.edu, dafinkel@indiana.edu
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8:30 AM
DEPOSITIONAL AND METAMORPHIC CONTROLS ON CARBON ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS IN THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC TIMEBALL HILL FORMATION, SOUTH AFRICA
COETZEE, Louis L.1, BEUKES, Nicolas J.1, GUTZMER, Jens1 and KAKEGAWA, Takeshi2, (1)Geology, Rand Afrikaans Univ, P.O.Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa, (2)Research Center for Environmental Geochemistry, Tohoku Univ, Sendai, Japan, glgy3@na.rau.ac.za, glgy3@na.rau.ac.za
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8:45 AM
FROM SAPROPEL TO RED MARL–ORBITALLY DRIVEN BEHAVIOR OF A CRETACEOUS SEA
FISCHER, Alfred G. and GRIPPO, Alessandro, Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, fischer@earth.usc.edu, fischer@earth.usc.edu
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9:00 AM
DECLINING PCO2 AND THE PHYTOPLANKTON OF TWO PHANÆROZOIC OCEANS
STROTHER, Paul K., Boston College, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA 02493-1312 and HARRISON, Kevin, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, strother@bc.edu, strother@bc.edu
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9:15 AM
MIDDLE EOCENE (~45 MA) PALEOCLIMATE INFERRED FROM FOSSIL TREE CELLULOSE
JAHREN, Hope, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ, 301 Olin Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, jahren@jhu.edu, jahren@jhu.edu
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9:30 AM
FOSSIL PLANT CUTICULAR EVIDENCE FOR HIGH ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE DURING THE MIDDLE MIOCENE THERMAL OPTIMUM
RETALLACK, Gregory J., Geological Sciences, Univ Oregon, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1272, gregr@darkwing.uoregon.edu, gregr@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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9:45 AM
BIOGEOGRAPHIC AND STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR MIDDLE MIOCENE WARMING IN THE HIGH-LATITUDE NORTH PACIFIC
OLEINIK, Anton E., Geography and Geology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Physical Sciences Building 336, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991 and MARINCOVICH, Louie, Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118-4599, aoleinik@fau.edu, aoleinik@fau.edu
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10:00 AM
ALPINE UPLIFTMENT AND REGIONAL CLIMATE: IS THERE A LINK?
VENNEMANN, Torsten W., Univ Tubingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, Tubingen, 72074, Germany, JANZ, Horst, Institute for Geochemistry, Univ of Tuebingen, Wilhelmstr. 56, Tuebingen, D-72074, Germany and HEGNER, Ernst, Univ Munchen, Theresienstrasse 41, Munchen, 80333, Germany, torven@uni-tuebingen.de, torven@uni-tuebingen.de
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10:15 AM
A MIDDLE MIOCENE PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC EVENT IN SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA
RAHIMPOUR-BONAB, Hossain, Dept. of Geology, Faculty of Science, Tehran University, Tehran, 14155-6455, Iran, rahimpor@khayam.ut.ac.ir, rahimpor@khayam.ut.ac.ir
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10:30 AM
THE PLIOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE GIPPSLAND BASIN
GREENWOOD, David R.1, GALLAGHER, S. J.2, SMITH, A. J.2, TAYLOR, D.2, WALLACE, M. W.2, HOLDGATE, G. R.2 and DANIELS, J.2, (1)School of Life Sciences & Technology (S008), Victoria Univ of Technology, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne City MC, Melbourne, Vic, 8001, Australia, (2)School of Earth Sciences, Melbourne Univ, Melbourne, Vic, 3010, Australia, david.greenwood@vu.edu.au, david.greenwood@vu.edu.au
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10:45 AM
PLIO-PLEISTOCENE ENVIRONMENTS OF GONA, ETHIOPIA: THE ISOTOPIC RECORD OF PEDOGENIC CARBONATE AND FOSSIL TEETH
LEVIN, Naomi1, QUADE, Jay1, SEMAW, Sileshi2, SIMPSON, Scott W.3, SCHICK, Kathy D.2 and TOTH, Nicholas2, (1)Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, 1040 E 4th St, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, (2)CRAFT, Indiana University, 419 N. Indiana, Bloomington, IN 47405, (3)Department of Anatomy, CWRU - School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, nlevin@geo.arizona.edu, nlevin@geo.arizona.edu
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11:00 AM
CYCLO-BIOSTRATIGRAPHY IN ANTARCTIC OLIGOCENE-LOWER MIOCENE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES
WEBB, Peter N., Ohio State Univ - Columbus, 155 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1308, webb.3@osu.edu, webb.3@osu.edu
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11:15 AM
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE PLIOCENE PART OF ODP DRILL SITE 188-1165, EAST ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN
WARNKE, Detlef A., Geological Sciences, California State Univ, Hayward, Hayward, CA 94542, dwarnke@csuhayward.edu, dwarnke@csuhayward.edu
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11:30 AM
OCEANIC GATEWAYS AS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN INITIATING PALAEOZOIC GLACIATIONS
PICKERING, Kevin T., Univ College London, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom and SMITH, Alan G., Univ Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom, ucfbktp@ucl.ac.uk, ucfbktp@ucl.ac.uk
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11:45 AM
THE LAST TWO GLACIAL MAXIMA RECORDED IN MIDDLE LATITUDE ARGENTINA
KAPLAN, Michael R.1, SINGER, Bradley S.1, DOUGLASS, Daniel C.1, ACKERT Jr, Robert P.2 and CAFFEE, Marc W.3, (1)Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Weeks Hall, 1215 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, (2)Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS 25, Clark 419, Woods Hole, MA 02543, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Lab, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551-0808, kaplanm@geology.wisc.edu, kaplanm@geology.wisc.edu