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. 284
Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

T27. From Mud to Mudrock: Use of Modern Depositional Settings as Analogs for the Interpretation of Ancient Mudrocks

Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

 

Anna M. Cruse, Advocates
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:15 AM
Trace Metal-Organic Interactions In Sediments and the Preservation of Paleoredox Proxies
CRUSE, Anna M., School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, 105 Noble Research Center, Stillwater, OK 74078-3031, LYONS, Timothy W., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 and HANNIGAN, Robyn, Department of Chemistry and Program for Environmental Sciences, Arkansas State Univ, PO Box 419, State University, AR 72467, anna.cruse@okstate.edu, anna.cruse@okstate.edu
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8:30 AM
Geochemical Investigation of Rocks from the Argillaceous Rock Atlas
BLUMBERG, Evan, Geology, St. Lawrence University, 149 Brown Hall, Canton, NY 13617 and CHIARENZELLI, Jeffrey R., Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University, 147 Brown Hall, Canton, NY 13617, ejblum05@stlawu.edu, ejblum05@stlawu.edu
3
8:45 AM
Nitrogen Isotopes as a Paleoredox Proxy: Co-Variation of Nitrogen Isotopes and Redox States through Glacial-Interglacial Cycles in the Black Sea
QUAN, Tracy M., Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, WRIGHT, James D., Dept. of Geological Sci, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 and FALKOWSKI, Paul G., Marine Science and Geological Science, Rutgers Universtiy, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521, quan@marine.rutgers.edu, quan@marine.rutgers.edu
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9:05 AM
Facies and Depositional Setting of Eau Claire Formation (Cambrian) Mudstones in Northwestern Indiana
YAWAR, Zalmai, Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 and SCHIEBER, Juergen, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana Univ, 1001 E 10th Str, Bloomington, IN 47405, zyawar@indiana.edu, zyawar@indiana.edu
5
9:20 AM
Experimental Study of Mud-Ripple Propagation – Direct Observations of Ripple Geometry and Transport Processes
SCHIEBER, Juergen, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana Univ, 1001 E 10th Str, Bloomington, IN 47405, jschiebe@indiana.edu, jschiebe@indiana.edu
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9:40 AM
Testing the “Sulfide Buffer/Phosphorus Trap Hypothesis” Using Anoxic Coastal Sediments from Cape Lookout Bight (North Carolina Outer Banks)
HE, Bo1, MEYERS, Stephen1 and ALPERIN, Marc2, (1)Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Mitchell Hall, 104 South Road, CB 3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (2)Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 429 Chapman Hall, CB 3300, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, bohe@email.unc.edu, bohe@email.unc.edu
 
9:55 AM
Break
7
10:10 AM
The Role of Organic Carbon and Phosphorus in the Fixation of Uranium in Mudrocks
PARSELL, Mindi J., School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, 105 Noble Research Center, Stillwater, OK 74078-3031 and CRUSE, Anna, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, 105 Noble Research Center, Stillwater, OK 74078-3031, mindit@okstate.edu, mindit@okstate.edu
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10:25 AM
Elemental Chemical Zonation of Black Shales Revisited--Application to Petroleum Source Rocks
WILDE, Pat and QUINBY-HUNT, Mary, Pangloss Foundation, 1735 Highland Place, Berkeley, CA 94709, pat.wilde.td.57@aya.yale.edu, pat.wilde.td.57@aya.yale.edu
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10:40 AM
Fluvial Avulsions and the Mudrock Sandwich: Interpreting Successions of Mudrock and Coal in Alluvial Settings
DAVIES-VOLLUM, K. Sian, IAS Program in Environmental Sciences, University of Washington-Tacoma, Tacoma, WA 98402 and SMITH, Norman D., Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, ksdavies@washington.edu, ksdavies@washington.edu
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10:55 AM
Developing a Modern Lake Geochemical Model for Interpreting Marine from Nonmarine Deposition on Early Earth
GILHOOLY, William, LYONS, Timothy W., REINHARD, Chris and LOVE, Gordon, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, williamg@ucr.edu, williamg@ucr.edu
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11:15 AM
Geochemical Constraints on the Depositional Environment of the Barnett Formation, Permian Basin, West Texas, USA
STUCKER, James Douglas1, ROWE, Harry1, RIMMER, Susan1, RUPPEL, Stephen2 and LOUCKS, Robert3, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Research Bldg, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, (2)Bureau of Economic Geology, The Unviersity of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713-8924, (3)Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, University Station, Box X, Austin, TX 78713-8924, jdstucker@uky.edu, jdstucker@uky.edu
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11:30 AM
Terrestrial Control on Organic Carbon Burial in Late Cretaceous Tropical Atlantic Black Shale (OAE 3) by Clay Mineral Surfaces
KENNEDY, Martin, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521, WAGNER, Thomas, Civil Engineering and Geoscience, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Drummond Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, BRISTOW, Thomas, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521 and MORRISON, Keith, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, martin.kennedy@ucr.edu, martin.kennedy@ucr.edu
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