T127. Terrestrial Proxies of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment in Deep Time

Session No. 147
Tuesday, 6 November 2012: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
202AB (Charlotte Convention Center)

T127. Terrestrial Proxies of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment in Deep Time

GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); Geochemical Society; GSA Limnogeology Division

 

Lauren A. Michel, Jennifer M. Cotton and Ethan Hyland, Advocates
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8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:05 AM
PALEOCLIMATE TRENDS RECORDED IN EPHEMERAL LAKE HALITE DEPOSITS OF THE PERMIAN NIPPEWALLA GROUP OF WESTERN KANSAS
ZAMBITO IV, James J., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 330 Brooks Hall, 98 Beechurst Street, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300 and BENISON, Kathleen C., Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 330 Brooks Hall, 98 Beechurst Street, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300, james.zambito@mail.wvu.edu, james.zambito@mail.wvu.edu
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8:20 AM
RECENT ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE LATE TRIASSIC VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE DEEP RIVER BASIN (NEWARK SUPERGROUP: CHATHAM GROUP), NORTH CAROLINA
HECKERT, Andrew B., Dept. of Geology, Appalachian State University, ASU Box 32067, Boone, NC 28608, SCHNEIDER, Vincent P., Paleontology, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones St, Raleigh, NC 27601, FRASER, Nicholas C., National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, United Kingdom, MITCHELL, Jonathan, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608 and OLSEN, Paul E., Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, heckertab@appstate.edu, heckertab@appstate.edu
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8:35 AM
CHARACTERIZATION AND INTERPRETATION OF A WELL-DATED SUCCESSION OF LATE TRIASSIC PALEOSOLS FROM PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA
NORDT, Lee1, ATCHLEY, Stacy1, DWORKIN, S.I.2, RAMEZANI, Jahandar3 and BOWRING, S.4, (1)Department of Geology, Baylor University, PO #97354, Waco, TX 76798, (2)Department of Geology, Baylor University, PO Box 97354, Waco, TX 70798-7354, (3)Dept of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, (4)Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 54-1126, Cambridge, MA 02139, lee_nordt@baylor.edu, lee_nordt@baylor.edu
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8:50 AM
TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC CONTROLS ON CYCLIC ALLUVIATION AND BIOLOGIC TURNOVER WITHIN THE LATE TRIASSIC CHINLE FORMATION, PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA
ATCHLEY, Stacy1, NORDT, Lee1, DWORKIN, Steve I.2, ASH, Sidney3, PARKER, William G.4, RAMEZANI, J.5 and BOWRING, S.a.6, (1)Department of Geology, Baylor University, PO #97354, Waco, TX 76798, (2)Department of Geology, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, (3)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (4)Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0254, (5)Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, (6)Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, Stacy_Atchley@baylor.edu, Stacy_Atchley@baylor.edu
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9:05 AM
GEOCHEMICAL SELF-ORGANIZATION AND MICROBIALLY-MEDIATED OXIDATION OF SIDERITE IN THE SHINARUMP MEMBER OF THE CHINLE FORMATION
KETTLER, Richard M.1, LOOPE, David B.1, NILES, Paul B.2 and WEBER, Karrie A.3, (1)Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, (2)Astromaterials Research & Exploration Sciences, NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, (3)School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, rkettler1@unl.edu, rkettler1@unl.edu
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9:20 AM
PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS OF EARLY DIAGENETIC SIDERITE IN THE SHINARUMP MEMBER OF THE CHINLE FORMATION, CHOCOLATE CLIFFS, UTAH AND ARIZONA
LOOPE, David B., KETTLER, Richard M. and BURGESS, Derek T., Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, dloope1@unl.edu, dloope1@unl.edu
 
9:35 AM
Break
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9:50 AM
INGERSON LECTURE: MODERN SOIL SYSTEM CONSTRAINTS ON RECONSTRUCTING DEEP-TIME ATMOSPHERIC CO2 : A NEW VIEW OF PHANEROZOIC PCO2 (Invited Presentation)
MONTANEZ, Isabel, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616, ipmontanez@ucdavis.edu, ipmontanez@ucdavis.edu
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10:20 AM
ASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF PEDOGENIC GIBBSITE AS A PROXY FOR PALEO-PCO2
AUSTIN, Jason C., Geology, University of Georgia, 45 Lamar Lane, Hoschton, GA 30548 and SCHROEDER, Paul A., Department of Geology, University of Georgia, 210 Field St., Athens, GA 30602-2501, jaycaustin@live.com, jaycaustin@live.com
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10:35 AM
WHAT'S THE LOW DOWN ON SOIL-FORMED SIDERITE?: MODERN PROCESS STUDIES AND VALIDATION OF A DEEP TIME TERRESTRIAL PALEOCLIMATE PROXY
LUDVIGSON, G.a., Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, GONZALEZ, Luis A., Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7613, FOWLE, D.A., Geology, University of Kansas, Multidisciplinary Research Building, 2030 Becker Dr, Lawrence, KS 66047, ROBERTS, Jennifer A., Dept of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, DRIESE, Steven G., Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Research Group, Dept. of Geosciences, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, VILLARREAL, Mark A., Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7594 and SUAREZ, Marina, Dept. of Geological Sciences, U. of Texas, San Antonio, 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, gludvigson@kgs.ku.edu, gludvigson@kgs.ku.edu
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10:50 AM
PALEOHYDROLOGIC RESPONSE TO CONTINENTAL WARMING: PALEOSOLS ACROSS THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM, BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING (Invited Presentation)
KRAUS, Mary J., Dept of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Colorado, 399 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, MCINERNEY, Francesca A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, BACZYNSKI, A.A., Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, WING, S.L., Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, SECORD, Ross, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340 and BLOCH, Jonathan I., Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, mary.kraus@colorado.edu, mary.kraus@colorado.edu
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11:10 AM
CARBONATE CLUMPED ISOTOPE THERMOMETRY OF PALEOSOL CARBONATES (Invited Presentation)
PASSEY, Benjamin H., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 301 Olin Hall, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, bhpassey@jhu.edu, bhpassey@jhu.edu
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11:30 AM
A NEW PALEOTHERMOMETER FOR FOREST PALEOSOLS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CENOZOIC CONTINENTAL PALEOCLIMATE
GALLAGHER, Timothy M., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Building, 1100 North University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 and SHELDON, Nathan D., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, tgallag@umich.edu, tgallag@umich.edu
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11:45 AM
SEEING THE APES THROUGH THE TREES: PALEOECOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF A PROCONSUL AND DENDROPITHECUS SITE ON RUSINGA ISLAND, KENYA
MICHEL, Lauren A.1, PEPPE, Daniel J.1, MCNULTY, Kieran P.2, DRIESE, Steven G.3, LEHMANN, Thomas4, NIGHTINGALE, Sheila5, HORNER, William H.1, DUNSWORTH, Holly M.6, HARCOURT-SMITH, William E.H.7 and LUTZ, James A.8, (1)Department of Geology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, (2)Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, 395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (3)Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Research Group, Dept. of Geosciences, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, (4)Abteilung Paläoanthropologie und Messelforschung, Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, Frankfurt, D-60325, Germany, (5)Archaeology, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10016, (6)Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Rhode Island, 507 Chafee Building, 10 Chafee Road, Kingston, RI 02881, (7)Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, (8)College of the Environment, University of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, WA 98195-2100, Lauren_Michel@baylor.edu, Lauren_Michel@baylor.edu
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