2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)

BOWRING, Samuel A.¹, ERWIN, Doug², PARRISH, Randall³, CONDON, Daniel³, CROWLEY, James¹, RAMEZANI, Jahandar¹, SCHOENE, Robert¹, SADLER, Peter⁴, HEIZLER, Matthew T.⁵ and JOHNSON, Kirk⁶, (1)Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, (2)Dept of Paleobiology, MRC-121, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, (3)British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, (4)Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, (5)New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, (6)Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205, sbowring@MIT.EDU, sbowring@MIT.EDU

SADLER, Peter, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Geology Building 1448, Riverside, CA 92521, COOPER, Roger, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, 6315, New Zealand and MELCHIN, Michael, Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G 2V5, Canada, psadler@ucr.edu, psadler@ucr.edu

WANG, Yue¹, SADLER, Peter², SHEN, Shuzhong³, CROWLEY, James⁴, CAO, Changqun⁵, HENDERSON, Charles⁶, WANG, Wei⁵, SHANG, Qinghua⁷ and BOWRING, Samuel⁸, (1)LPS, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China, (2)Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Geology Building 1448, Riverside, CA 92521, (3)State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China, (4)Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, (5)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China, (6)Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada, (7)IVPP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 10000, (8)EARTHTIME, 77 Moss Ave, MIT54-1120, Cambridge, MA 02139, yuewang@nigpas.ac.cn, yuewang@nigpas.ac.cn

STEUBER, Thomas, Petroleum Geoscience, The Petroleum Institute, P.O. Box 2533, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, tsteuber@pi.ac.ae, tsteuber@pi.ac.ae

SCHMITZ, Mark, DAVYDOV, Vladimir, SNYDER, Walter S. and NORTHRUP, CJ, Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725, markschmitz@boisestate.edu, markschmitz@boisestate.edu

BURTON, Darrin¹, GREENHALGH, Brent W.¹, BRITT, Brooks B.¹, KOWALLIS, Bart J.¹, ELLIOTT Jr, William S.² and BARRICK, Reese³, (1)Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, (2)Geology, Southern Oregon Univ, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, OR 97520, (3)College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, Price, UT 84501, darrinburton@hotmail.com, darrinburton@hotmail.com

HILGEN, Frederik J.¹, KRIJGSMAN, Wout¹, KUIPER, Klaudia F.¹, LOURENS, Lucas J.¹ and WIJBRANS, Jan R.², (1)Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, Utrecht, 3584 CD, Netherlands, (2)Isotope Geochemistry, Free University, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1085 HV, Netherlands, fhilgen@geo.uu.nl, fhilgen@geo.uu.nl

KOCH, Paul L., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 and GINGERICH, Philip D., Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Paleontology, The Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, pkoch@pmc.ucsc.edu, pkoch@pmc.ucsc.edu

SWISHER III, Carl C., Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Wright Labs, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08554, KUIPER, Klaudia, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 17, Utrecht, 3584 CD, Netherlands and TURRIN, Brent D., Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Wright Labs, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, cswish@rci.rutgers.edu, cswish@rci.rutgers.edu

OLSEN, Paul E., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, WHITESIDE, Jessica H., Geological Sciences, Brown University, GeoChemistry Building, Box 1846, Providence, RI 02912 and KENT, Dennis V., Geological Sciences, Rutgers Univ. and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Piscataway, NJ 08854, polsen@ldeo.columbia.edu, polsen@ldeo.columbia.edu