2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)

ROBERT, François, Science de la Terre, Museum National Histoire Naturelle, 57 rue Cuvier - LEME (USM 205) - Case 52, Paris, 75005, France and CHAUSSIDON, Marc, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, F-75005, France, robert@mnhn.fr, robert@mnhn.fr

SCHOPF, J. William, Earth & Space Sciences, Molecular Biology Institute, and IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, Univ of California, Los Angeles, 595 Charles E. Young Drive, East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, schopf@ess.ucla.edu, schopf@ess.ucla.edu

DE GREGORIO, Bradley T. and SHARP, Thomas G., Geological Sciences, Arizona State Univ, P.O Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, degregorio@asu.edu, degregorio@asu.edu

VENTURA, Gregory Todd¹, KENIG, Fabien², REDDY, Christopher M.¹, SCHIEBER, Juergen³, NELSON, Robert K.⁴, DINEL, Etienne⁵ and FRYSINGER, Glenn S.⁶, (1)Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS#4, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1543, (2)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 186, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7059, (3)Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405, (4)Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS#4, Woods Hole, MA 02543-1543, (5)Department of Geology, University of Ottawa, 140 Louis Pasteur, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada, (6)Department of Science, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT 06320-8101, gventura@whoi.edu, gventura@whoi.edu

LOVE, Gordon D., Dept. of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside, Geology Building, Riverside, CA 92521, MARSHALL, Craig P., School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, ALLWOOD, Abigail C., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-301, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, SNAPE, Colin E., School of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom, WALTER, Malcolm R., Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University Biotechnology Research Institute, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia, VAN KRANENDONK, Martin J., Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain St, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia and SUMMONS, Roger E., Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, E34-246, Cambridge, MA 02139, glove@ucr.edu, glove@ucr.edu

OEHLER, Dorothy Z.¹, ROBERT, François², MEIBOM, Anders², MOSTEFAOUI, Smail², SELO, Madeleine², WALTER, Malcolm R.³, SUGITANI, Kenichiro⁴, ALLWOOD, Abigail⁵ and GIBSON, Everett K.¹, (1)Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, NASA - Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 77058, (2)Laboratoire d’Etude de la Matière Extraterrestre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, USM 0205 (LEME), Case Postale 52, 61, Rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France, (3)Earth and Planetary Sciences, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ, New South Wales, 2109, Australia, (4)Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan, (5)Planetary Habitability Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-301, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, dorothy.z.oehler@nasa.gov, dorothy.z.oehler@nasa.gov

MOJZSIS, Stephen J., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Colorado, UCB 399, 2200 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, mojzsis@colorado.edu, mojzsis@colorado.edu

DUAN, Yun¹, ANBAR, Ariel D.², ARNOLD, Gail L.¹, GORDON, Gwyneth W.¹, SEVERMANN, Silke³ and LYONS, Timothy W.³, (1)School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, (2)School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, PO Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, (3)Dept of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0423, yun.duan@asu.edu, yun.duan@asu.edu

SCHIFFBAUER, James D., ICTAS Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 and XIAO, Shuhai, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, jdschiff@vt.edu, jdschiff@vt.edu

FURNES, Harald¹, MCLOUGHLIN, Nicola¹, MUEHLENBACHS, Karlis², BANERJEE, Neil³, STAUDIGEL, Hubert⁴, DILEK, Yildirim⁵, DE WIT, Maarten⁶, VAN KRANENDONK, Martin⁷ and SCHIFFMAN, Peter⁸, (1)Centre for Geobiology & Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Allegate 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, (2)Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 ESB, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, (3)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada, (4)Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, Univ of California, UCSD-0225, La Jolla, CA 9209309 0225, (5)Geology, Miami University, 116 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, (6)Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 77058, South Africa, (7)Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain St. East Perth, Western Australia, Perth, 6004, Australia, (8)Geology, University Of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, harald.furnes@geo.uib.no, harald.furnes@geo.uib.no

RUNNEGAR, Bruce N., Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 and JÖGI, Per M., Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, runnegar@ucla.edu, runnegar@ucla.edu

KELLY, Amy E.¹, GROSJEAN, Emmanuelle², FIKE, David A.³, ROTHMAN, Daniel H.¹, LOVE, Gordon D.⁴, ZUMBERGE, John E.⁵ and SUMMONS, Roger E.¹, (1)Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, (2)Petroleum and Marine Division, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, 2601, Australia, (3)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, (4)Dept. of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside, Geology Building, Riverside, CA 92521, (5)Geomark Rsch, 9748 Whithorn Drive, Houston, TX 77095, kellya@mit.edu, kellya@mit.edu

MCFADDEN, Kathleen A.¹, HUANG, Jing², CHU, Xuelei², JIANG, Ganqing³, KAUFMAN, Alan J.⁴, ZHOU, Chuanming⁵, YUAN, Xunlai⁶ and XIAO, Shuhai⁷, (1)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, (2)Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China, (3)Department of Geoscience, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, (4)Geology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, (5)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China, (6)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing, 210008, China, (7)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, meikailing@yahoo.com, meikailing@yahoo.com