Northeastern Section (45th Annual) and Southeastern Section (59th Annual) Joint Meeting (13-16 March 2010)

Session No. 15
Sunday, 14 March 2010: 1:30 PM-4:15 PM
Hopkins (Sheraton Baltimore City Center)

Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology and Geochemistry II

 

Adriana Heimann and Sara E. Mason, Chairs
Paper #
Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
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1:35 PM
FE, C, AND O ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS OF BANDED IRON FORMATION CARBONATES DEMONSTRATE THE ROLE OF BACTERIAL DISSIMILATORY IRON REDUCTION IN ~ 2.5 B.Y. OLD MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
HEIMANN, Adriana1, JOHNSON, Clark M.2, BEARD, Brian L.3, VALLEY, John W.2, RODEN, Eric E.2, SPICUZZA, Michael J.2 and BEUKES, Nicolas J.4, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, and NASA Astrobiology Institute-Madison, 101 Graham Building, Greenville, NC 27858, (2)Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NASA Astrobiology Institute, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, (3)Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, (4)Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006, South Africa, heimanna@ecu.edu, heimanna@ecu.edu
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1:55 PM
DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE FABRICS IN THE MORETOWN MEMBER, VERMONT
ROOT, Polly, WINTSCH, Robert P., SCHIEBER, Juergen and GROWDON, Martha, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, proot@indiana.edu, proot@indiana.edu
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2:15 PM
COMPARATIVE DFT STUDIES OF CATION ADSORPTION ON CORUNDUM-TYPE
MASON, Sara E.1, ICEMAN, Christopher2, TRAINOR, Thomas P.2 and CHAKA, Anne M.1, (1)Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8443, (2)Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 756160, Fairbanks, AK 99775, semason@nist.gov, semason@nist.gov
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2:35 PM
TRINITITE – THE ATOMIC ROCK
EBY, G. Nelson, Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854, CHARNLEY, Norman, Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PR, United Kingdom and SMOLIGA, John A., 23 Rocky Mountain Rd, Roxbury, CT 06783, Nelson_Eby@uml.edu, Nelson_Eby@uml.edu