Session No. 5
Sunday, 27 October 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 607 (Colorado Convention Center)

Special Session: GSA 125th Anniversary Books: I, The Web of Geological Sciences: Advances, Impacts, and Interactions; II, The Impact of Geological Sciences on Society: Authors Present Summaries of Their Articles I

GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division: GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Archaeological Geology Division; GSA Geology and Health Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Geoscience Education Division; GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division

 

M.E. Bickford, Chair
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8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:15 AM
FROM KILAUEA IKI 1959 TO EYJAFJALLAJöKULL 2010—HOW VOLCANOLOGY HAS CHANGED!
HEIKEN, Grant, 331 Windantide Place, Freeland, WA 98249-9683, heiken@whidbey.com
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8:30 AM
CELEBRATING THE FEEDBACKS BETWEEN HISTORICAL-BASED AND PROCESS-BASED APPROACHES IN THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
TIKOFF, Basil, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, 1215 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, BLENKINSOP, Thomas G., School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Australia, KRUCKENBERG, Seth C., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Devlin Hall 213, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, MORGAN, Sven, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Central Michigan University, 314 Brooks Hall, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859, NEWMAN, Julie, Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 and WOJTAL, Steven F., Department of Geology, Oberlin College, 52 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, basil@geology.wisc.edu
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8:45 AM
MAJOR ADVANCES IN SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 1960-2012: PROCESSES, DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS AND STRATIGRAPHY
STEEL, Ron, Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78702, rsteel@jsg.utexas.edu
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9:00 AM
MAJOR ADVANCES IN SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, 1960-2012: PETROLOGY
MILLIKEN, Kitty, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78713, kittym@utexas.edu
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9:15 AM
FROM PALEONTOLOGY TO PALEOBIOLOGY: A HALF-CENTURY OF PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE HISTORY
KELLEY, Patricia H.1, FASTOVSKY, David E.2, WILSON, Mark A.3, LAWS, Richard A.1 and RAYMOND, Anne4, (1)Department of Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5944, (2)Department of Geosciences, Univ of Rhode Island, 9 East Alumni Ave, Kingston, RI 02881, (3)Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, 944 College Mall, Wooster, OH 44691, (4)Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, kelleyp@uncw.edu
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9:30 AM
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9:45 AM
SMALLER, BETTER, MORE: FIVE DECADES OF ADVANCES IN GEOCHEMISTRY. PART 1 - INORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
JOHNSON, Clark, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NASA Astrobiology Institute, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, MCLENNAN, Scott M., Department of Geoscience, State University of New York - Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, MCSWEEN, Harry Y., Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and SUMMONS, Roger E., Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, E25-633, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, clarkj@geology.wisc.edu
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SMALLER, BETTER, MORE: FIVE DECADES OF ADVANCES IN GEOCHEMISTRY. PART II - ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
SUMMONS, Roger E., Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, E25-633, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, JOHNSON, Clark, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NASA Astrobiology Institute, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, MCLENNAN, Scott M., Department of Geoscience, State University of New York - Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 and MCSWEEN, Harry Y., Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, rsummons@mit.edu
 
10:15 AM
Break
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10:30 AM
TECTONICS: 50 YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTION
MOORES, Eldridge, YIKILMAZ, M. Burak and KELLOGG, Louise H., Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, emmoores@ucdavis.edu
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10:45 AM
TIMESCALES OF CONTINENTAL RIFTING
VAN WIJK, Jolante, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, EBINGER, Cynthia, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627 and KEIR, Derek, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom, jolantevanwijk@gmail.com
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11:00 AM
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
BODNAR, Robert J., Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, AZBEJ, Tristan, Deputy State Secretariat for Parliamentary Affairs, The Prime Minister's Office, 9/A. Markó u, Budapest, H-1055, Hungary, BECKER, S.P., Petroleum Geochemistry, Hydrocarbon Systems Division, ExxonMobil Upstream research Company, 3120 Buffalo Speedway, Houston, TX 77098, CANNATELLI, Claudia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, 80134, Italy, FALL, András, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, University Station, P.O. Box X, Austin, TX 78713-8924 and SEVERS, Matthew J., Geology, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, 101 Vera King Farris Drive, Galloway, NJ 08205, rjb@vt.edu
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11:15 AM
SEMINAL ADVANCES IN HYDROGEOLOGY 1963 TO 2012: THE O.E. MEINZER AWARD LEGACY
SIEGEL, Donald I., Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Heroy Geological Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244 and ANDERSON, Mary P., Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706-1692, disiegel@syr.edu
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11:30 AM
STRONGLY DUST-INFLUENCED SOILS AND LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS IN VEGETATED ARIDLANDS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
MCFADDEN, Leslie, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, lmcfadnm@unm.edu
 
11:45 AM
Discussion
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