2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009)

DILEK, Yildirim, Dept of Geology, Miami University, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, POLAT, Ali, Earth Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B, Canada and FURNES, Harald, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, dileky@muohio.edu, dileky@muohio.edu

VAN KRANENDONK, Martin J., Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain St, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia, martin.vankranendonk@dmp.wa.gov.au, martin.vankranendonk@dmp.wa.gov.au

POLAT, Ali, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada and DILEK, Yildirim, Dept of Geology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, polat@uwindsor.ca, polat@uwindsor.ca

SATKOSKI, Aaron M.¹, BICKFORD, M.E.¹, WOODEN, J.L.², MUELLER, Paul A.³ and KAMENOV, G.D.³, (1)Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244-1070, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, (3)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, amsatkos@syr.edu, amsatkos@syr.edu

BACHTEL, Jonathan¹, SCHNEIDER, D.A.¹ and SCHMITT, A.², (1)Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada, (2)Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1577, jbach068@uottawa.ca, jbach068@uottawa.ca

DE WIT, Maarten, AEON-Africa Earth Observatory Network, and Department of, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa and FURNES, Harald, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, Maarten.DeWit@uct.ac.za, Maarten.DeWit@uct.ac.za

ARNDT, Nick, Lgca, Universite de Grenoble, 1381 rue de la Piscine, Grenoble, 38400, France, ROBIN, Christophe, LGCA, Universite de Grenoble, 1381 rue de la Piscine, Grenoble, 38400, France, BYERLY, Gary, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, PUCHTEL, Igor, College Park, MD MD 20742, BLICHERT-TOFT, Janne, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46, Allée d'Italie, Lyon, 69364, France and WILSON, Allan, Johannesburg, South Africa, arndt@ujf-grenoble.fr, arndt@ujf-grenoble.fr

FURNES, Harald, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, DE WIT, Maarten, AEON-Africa Earth Observatory Network, and Department of, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa and ROBINS, Brian, Department of Earth Science, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, harald.furnes@geo.uib.no, harald.furnes@geo.uib.no

GROSCH, Eugene G., Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) and the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa, DE WIT, Maarten, AEON-Africa Earth Observatory Network, and Department of, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa, FURNES, Harald, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway and MCLOUGHLIN, Nicola, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, Bergen, 5007, Norway, geogene@gmail.com, geogene@gmail.com

MUEHLENBACHS, Karlis, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 ESB, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, FURNES, Harald, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway and DE WIT, Maarten, AEON-Africa Earth Observatory Network, and Department of, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa, karlis.muehlenbachs@ualberta.ca, karlis.muehlenbachs@ualberta.ca

HOFMANN, Axel, School of Geological Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P/Bag X54001, Durban, 4000, South Africa, hofmann@ukzn.ac.za, hofmann@ukzn.ac.za

MASON, Paul R.D.¹, ROERDINK, Desiree¹, REIMER, Thomas² and WHITEHOUSE, Martin J.³, (1)Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, Utrecht, 3584 CD, Netherlands, (2)Bernhard-May-Str. 43, Wiesbaden, 65203, Germany, (3)Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SE-104 05, Sweden, mason@geo.uu.nl, mason@geo.uu.nl

MCLOUGHLIN, Nicola, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, FURNES, Harald, Department of Earth Science & Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, 5007, Norway, STAUDIGEL, Hubert, Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, Univ of California, UCSD-0225, La Jolla, CA 9209309 0225, MUEHLENBACHS, Karlis, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 ESB, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, FLIEGEL, Daniel, Department of Earth Science and Center for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Allegaten 41, Bergen, n-5007, Norway, GROSCH, Eugene, Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) and the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa and DE WIT, Maarten, AEON-Africa Earth Observatory Network, and Department of, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa, Nicola.Mcloughlin@geo.uib.no, Nicola.Mcloughlin@geo.uib.no

CZAJA, Andrew D.¹, JOHNSON, Clark M.¹, BEARD, Brian L.¹, EIGENBRODE, Jennifer L.², FREEMAN, Katherine H.³ and YAMAGUCHI, Kosei E.⁴, (1)Department of Geoscience, NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 699.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (3)Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 235 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, (4)Department of Chemistry, Toho University, 2-2-1 Miyama, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510, Japan, kosei@chem.sci.toho-u.ac.jp, kosei@chem.sci.toho-u.ac.jp