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. 187
Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

T96. Planetary Pummeling: Cataclysmic Bombardment of the Solar System as Catastrophe, Catalyst, Cauldron, and Crucible

GSA Planetary Geology Division

 

Stephen Mojzsis and Barbara Cohen, Advocates
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Start Time
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8:00 AM
Compositional and Geochronological Constraints on the Lunar Cataclysm from Planetary Samples
COHEN, Barbara A., NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, Barbara.A.Cohen@nasa.gov, Barbara.A.Cohen@nasa.gov
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8:15 AM
The Late Heavy Bombardment on Mars: Implications for the Inner Solar System
FREY, Herbert V., Planetary Geodynamics Lab, Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 698, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, Herbert.V.Frey@nasa.gov, Herbert.V.Frey@nasa.gov
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8:30 AM
The Late Heavy Bombardment and Mars
BURT, Donald M.1, KNAUTH, L. Paul1 and WOHLETZ, Kenneth H.2, (1)School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, (2)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos National Lab, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, dmburt@asu.edu, dmburt@asu.edu
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8:45 AM
The Late Heavy Bombardment: Cataclysm or Continuum?
NORMAN, Marc D., Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX 77058, Marc.Norman@anu.edu.au, Marc.Norman@anu.edu.au
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9:05 AM
Lunar zircons did not record the cataclysm
MEYER, C.1, NEMCHIN, A.A.2, PIDGEON, R.T.2, WILLIAMS, I.S.3 and COMPSTON, W.3, (1)KT Astromaterials Curation, NASA Johnson Space Ctn, Houston, TX 77058, (2)Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia, (3)Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, Charles.Meyer-1@nasa.gov, Charles.Meyer-1@nasa.gov
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9:25 AM
A Salubrious Heavy Bombardment: The Case for Phosphorus
PASEK, Matthew Adam, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona, 1629 E. University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, mpasek@lpl.arizona.edu, mpasek@lpl.arizona.edu
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9:45 AM
Sulfur and the Late Heavy Bombardment
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
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10:00 AM
How Deep Do Impacts Probe Planetary Crusts?
DENCE, Michael R., 824 Nesbitt Place, |Ottawa, ON K2C 0K1, Canada, mrdence@rogers.com, mrdence@rogers.com
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10:15 AM
The Anorthositic Central Uplift of the Manicouagan Impact Structure
BIREN, Marc B.1, SPRAY, John G.1 and THOMPSON, Lucy M.2, (1)Planetary and Space Science Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada, (2)Planetary and Space Science Centre, Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada, marc.biren@unb.ca, marc.biren@unb.ca
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10:30 AM
Alochthonous Suevitic Breccias at Manicouagan
THOMPSON, Lucy M., Planetary and Space Science Centre, Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada, lthompso@unb.ca, lthompso@unb.ca
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10:45 AM
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11:00 AM
The Manicouagan Structure as a Window into Lunar Impact Melts
SPRAY, John G., Planetary and Space Science Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada, jgs@unb.ca, jgs@unb.ca
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11:15 AM
The Mineralogy of Deeply Excavating Lunar Impact Crater Central Peaks
CAHILL, Joshua T.S.1, WIECZOREK, Mark A.2, LUCEY, Paul G.1 and SHEARER, Charles K.3, (1)Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, 1680 East-West Rd., P.O.S.T. 602b, Honolulu, HI 96822, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 4 Avenue de Neptune, Saint Maur des Fosses Cedex, Paris, 94107, France, (3)Institute of Meteoritics, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, jcahill@higp.hawaii.edu, jcahill@higp.hawaii.edu
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11:30 AM
The Brangane Asteroid Family Disruption: Source of the Late Eocene 2.5 Million Years of Dust Deposition, Impacts, and H Chondrite Meteoroids
HILDEBRAND, Alan R., Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada, PARKER, Alex, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada, KYTE, Frank T., Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 and SHUKOLYUKOV, Alex, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0212, ahildebr@ucalgary.ca, ahildebr@ucalgary.ca
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