Session No. 114
Monday, 28 October 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Mile High Ballroom 1EF (Colorado Convention Center)

T164. Recent Advances in Geochronology—Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of the “The Age of the Earth” by Arthur Holmes

Geochemical Society; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division; Paleontological Society; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division

 

S.a. Bowring, Sidney R. Hemming and J. Douglas Walker, Advocates
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8:00 AM
THE USE OF EXTINCT RADIONUCLIDES TO DEFINE THE PRECISE CHRONOLOGY OF PLANET FORMATION
CARLSON, Richard, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, O'NEIL, Jonathan, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada, BOYET, Maud, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Universite Blaise Pascal, CNRS UMR 6524, 5 Rue Kessler, Clermont-Ferrand, 63038, France and QIN, Liping, University of Science and Technology, Hefei, Anuhui, 230026, China, rcarlson@ciw.edu
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8:20 AM
IN-SITU DATING ON MARS USING THE ID-KARD TECHNIQUE
CARTWRIGHT, Julia A.1, FARLEY, Kenneth A.2, HUROWITZ, Joel A.3, ASIMOW, Paul D.1 and JACOBSON, Nathan S.4, (1)Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, (2)Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, (3)Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, USA, Stony Brook, NY 11794, (4)Glenn Research Center, NASA, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135, jac@caltech.edu
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8:35 AM
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INTERCALIBRATION OF RADIOISOTOPE DATING AND ASTROCHRONOLOGY
HINNOV, Linda A., Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 and MEYERS, Stephen R., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, 1215 West Dayton St, Madison, WI 53076, smeyers@geology.wisc.edu
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8:55 AM
A RADIOISOTOPIC AND ASTROCHRONOLOGIC CROSS-CALIBRATION OF THE WILKINS PEAK MEMBER OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, WYOMING, USA
MACHLUS, Malka L.1, RAMEZANI, Jahandar2, BOWRING, Samuel A.2, HEMMING, Sidney R.3, TSUKUI, Kaori3 and CLYDE, William C.4, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, (2)Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, (3)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, (4)Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, machlus@ldeo.columbia.edu
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9:10 AM
PROGRESS ON INTER-LABORATORY CALIBRATION OF ARGON ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS
HEMMING, Sidney R., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, TURRIN, Brent, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, 610 Taylor Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States, Piscataway, NJ 08854 and SWISHER III, Carl, Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, Wright Labs, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066, sidney@ldeo.columbia.edu
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9:25 AM
THE GEOCHRON SYSTEM FOR SHARING AND ARCHIVING GEOCHRONOLOGY DATA: NEW ADVANCES IN DATA MANAGEMENT
WALKER, J. Douglas1, ASH, Jason1, BOWRING, James F.2, BOWRING, S.a.3 and MCLEAN, Noah M.1, (1)Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, (2)Department of Computer Science, College of Charleston, JC Long 207, Charleston, SC 29424, (3)Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, jdwalker@ku.edu
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9:40 AM
INTEGRATED ANALYSES OF BIOCHRONOLOGY AND RADIOISOTOPIC CHRONOLOGY IN CENOZOIC ANDEAN TERRESTRIAL SEQUENCES, AND A BRIEF UPDATE ON CALIBRATION OF SOUTH AMERICAN LAND MAMMAL "AGES" (SALMA)
FLYNN, John, Division of Paleontology and Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West @ 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, jflynn@amnh.org
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10:00 AM
REVISED CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CORRELATION OF THE EARLIEST DINOSAUR-BEARING STRATA IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE LATE TRIASSIC TETRAPOD EVOLUTION
RAMEZANI, Jahandar1, FASTOVSKY, David E.2 and BOWRING, Samuel A.1, (1)Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, (2)Department of Geosciences, Univ of Rhode Island, 9 East Alumni Ave, Kingston, RI 02881, ramezani@mit.edu
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10:15 AM
40AR/39AR CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY OF CRETACEOUS AND PALEOCENE STRATA IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO: ACCURACY LIMITATION OF HIGH PRECISION MEASUREMENTS
HEIZLER, Matthew, T.1, WILLIAMSON, Thomas E.2, PEPPE, Daniel J.3, RAMEZANI, Jahandar4, BOWRING, Samuel A.4 and MASON, Iain P.5, (1)New Mexico Bureau of Geology, NM Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, (2)New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, (3)Department of Geology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, (4)Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, (5)Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, 534 San Pablo NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108, matt@nmt.edu
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10:30 AM
NEW AGE CONSTRAINTS ON THE LATE CRETACEOUS THROUGH EARLY PALEOCENE ROCKS IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
PEPPE, Daniel J.1, HEIZLER, Matthew T.2, WILLIAMSON, Thomas E.3, MASSON, Iain P.2, BRUSATTE, Stephen4, WEIL, Anne5 and SECORD, Ross6, (1)Department of Geology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, (2)New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, (3)New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, (4)School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, United Kingdom, (5)Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 W. 17th St, Tulsa, OK 74107, (6)University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 200 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583, daniel_peppe@baylor.edu
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10:45 AM
SMALL-VOLUME BADDELEYITE U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND LU-HF ISOTOPE CHEMISTRY BY LA-ICP-MS – TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
IBANEZ-MEJIA, Mauricio, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building #77, 1040 E 4th St, Tucson, AZ 85721, GEHRELS, G.E., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, RUIZ, Joaquin, Dean, College of Science, University of Arizona, PO BOX 210077, 1040 E. 4th St, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, VERVOORT, Jeffrey D., School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, EDDY, Michael, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, FISHER, Christopher M., School of the Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, BOWRING, Samuel A., Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 and LI, Chen, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, ibanezm@email.arizona.edu
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11:00 AM
RADIOACTIVE DECAY AS A PERIODIC RANDOM PROCESS WITH POSITIVE FEEDBACK
HOGGAN, Benjamin R.1, FORSYTHE, Victoriya V.1 and EMERMAN, Steven H.2, (1)Department of Physics, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058, (2)Department of Earth Science, Utah Valley University, 800 West University Parkway, Orem, UT 84058, hiimben@gmail.com
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