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Session No. 160
Tuesday, 2 November 2010: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 205 (Colorado Convention Center)

T66. Geochronology of the American West: In Honor of the Careers of Bill Cobban and John Obradovich and the Roots of EARTHTIME

Geochemical Society; Paleontological Society

 

S.a. Bowring, Kirk R. Johnson and Brad S. Singer, Advocates
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8:00 AM
AT THE INTERFACE OF BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND ISOTOPIC GEOCHRONOLOGY—EXPLORING THE CRETACEOUS WORLD
SAWYER, David A., USGS, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225 and MCKINNEY, Kevin C., Core Science Systems, USGS, Denver Federal Center MS 975, Denver, CO 80225, dsawyer@usgs.gov, dsawyer@usgs.gov
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8:15 AM
LATE JURASSIC TIME SCALE: INTEGRATION OF AMMONITE ZONES, MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY, ASTRONOMICAL TUNING AND SEQUENCE INTERPRETATION FOR TETHYAN, SUBBOREAL AND BOREAL REALMS
OGG, James G., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue Univ, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051, HINNOV, Linda A., Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, PRZYBYLSKI, Piotr A., BP America Inc, 501 Westlake Park Blvd, Houston, TX 77079, HUANG, Chunju, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 and BOULILA, Slah, CNRS - UMR 7072 Tectonique, case 117, Université Pierre & Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, Paris, 75252, France, jogg@purdue.edu, jogg@purdue.edu
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8:30 AM
NEW U-PB ZIRCON AGES FROM THE CHINLE FORMATION (WESTERN US) REVISE UNDERSTANDING OF LATE TRIASSIC TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION
IRMIS, Randall B., Natural History Museum of Utah and Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1214 and MUNDIL, Roland, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, 2455 Ridge Rd, Berkeley, CA 94709-1211, irmis@umnh.utah.edu, irmis@umnh.utah.edu
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8:45 AM
RECALIBRATING THE LOWER CRETACEOUS TIME SCALE WITH U-PB ZIRCON AGES FROM THE GREAT VALLEY GROUP
SHIMOKAWA, Ayumi, Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #3315, Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, COLEMAN, Drew S., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 3315, Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315 and BRALOWER, Timothy J., Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 503 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, ayumish@email.unc.edu, ayumish@email.unc.edu
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9:00 AM
COMPARING LATE CRETACEOUS AMMONITE EVOLUTION IN THE WESTERN INTERIOR AS COMPARED TO OTHER BIOGEOGRAPHIC PROVINCES
WARD, Peter D., Departments of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Kincaid Hall, Seattle, WA 98125, MITCHELL, Ross, N., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109 and SADLER, Peter, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, argo@u.washington.edu, argo@u.washington.edu
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9:15 AM
INTEGRATING RADIOISOTOPIC AND ASTROCHRONOLOGIC TIME SCALES FOR THE CRETACEOUS
SINGER, Brad S., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, CONDON, Daniel, NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, SIEWERT, Sarah E., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 West Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, MEYERS, Stephen R., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, SAGEMAN, Bradley B., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, OBRADOVICH, John D., U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, SAWYER, David A., USGS, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225 and JICHA, Brian R., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, bsinger@geology.wisc.edu, bsinger@geology.wisc.edu
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9:30 AM
40Ar/39Ar AND U-PB DATING OF THE CRETACEOUS NIOBRARA FORMATION
SIEWERT, Sarah E., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, SINGER, Brad S., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, CONDON, Daniel, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, OBRADOVICH, John D., U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, SAGEMAN, Bradley B., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, MEYERS, Stephen R., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, JICHA, Brian R., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison and SAWYER, David A., USGS, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, sesiewert@wisc.edu, sesiewert@wisc.edu
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9:45 AM
REDUCING ERROR BARS THROUGH THE INTERCALIBRATION OF RADIOISOTOPIC AND ASTROCHRONOLOGIC TIME SCALES FOR THE CENOMANIAN/TURONIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL, WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN, USA
MEYERS, Stephen R., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, SIEWERT, Sarah E., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, SINGER, Brad S., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, SAGEMAN, Bradley B., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, CONDON, Daniel, NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, OBRADOVICH, John D., U.S. Geological Survey, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, JICHA, Brian R., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison and SAWYER, David A., USGS, MS 980, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225, smeyers@geology.wisc.edu, smeyers@geology.wisc.edu
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10:00 AM
NEW HIGH-PRECISION GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE LATE EOCENE OF NORTH AMERICA AND ITALY
SAHY, Diana1, FISCHER, Anne2, TERRY Jr, Dennis O.3, CONDON, Daniel1 and KUIPER, Klaudia2, (1)NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, (2)Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, 1085 De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands, (3)Earth and Environmental Science, Temple University, 326 Beury Hall, 1901 N. 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, dihy@bgs.ac.uk, dihy@bgs.ac.uk
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10:15 AM
SEARCHING FOR THE PETM IN CARBON ISOTOPE VALUES OF BULK ORGANIC MATTER FROM THE PALEOSOL INTERVAL OF THE D2 SYNOROGENIC STRATA OF THE DENVER BASIN, COLORADO
MARTIN, Kayla, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, SNELL, Kathryn E., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA 91125, MILLER, Ian M., Dept. of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205 and JOHNSON, Kirk R., Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205, kxmartin@ucsc.edu, kxmartin@ucsc.edu
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10:30 AM
AMERICAN WEST TEPHRAS – GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY EVENTS REDEFINED THROUGH CALIBRATION OF RADIO-ISOTOPIC AND ASTRONOMICAL TIME
RIVERA, Tiffany A., Isotope Geology Lab, Boise State University, 1910 University Dr, Boise, ID 83725 and STOREY, Michael, QuadLab, ENSPAC 11.1, Roskilde University Center, Universitetsvej 1, PO Box 260, Roskilde, 4000, Denmark, tiffanyarivera@gmail.com, tiffanyarivera@gmail.com
 
10:45 AM
Discussion and Remarks from John Obradovich and Bill Cobban
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