GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017

Session No. 324
Wednesday, 25 October 2017: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Skagit 5 (The Conference Center)

T254. The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The “Boring Billion” and Mid-Proterozoic Emergence of Complex Life

Paleontological Society; GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division
Roger Buick, Matthew Koehler and Charles Diamond, Advocates
8:00 AM
LIMITATIONS ON LIMITATION
LAAKSO, Thomas A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 and SCHRAG, Daniel P., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, laakso@fas.harvard.edu
8:15 AM
NO EVIDENCE FOR ALTERNATIVE NITROGENASE EXPRESSION IN A MESOPROTEROZOIC MOLYBDENUM-LIMITED ENVIRONMENT: CONSTRAINTS FROM NITROGEN ISOTOPES AT 1.1 GA
GILLEAUDEAU, Geoffrey J.1, JUNIUM, Christopher K.2, KAH, Linda C.3, ZOLOTOVA, Natasha1 and ANBAR, Ariel D.4, (1)School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, 550 East Tyler Mall, PSF Room 686, Tempe, AZ 85287, (2)Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, (3)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 1621 Cumberland Avenue, 602 Strong Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, (4)School of Earth & Space Exploration and School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, ggillea1@gmail.com
8:30 AM
LOW NITRATE LEVELS IN THE MESOPROTEROZOIC OCEAN
KOEHLER, Matthew1, STÜEKEN, Eva E.2, KIPP, Michael A.1, BUICK, Roger1 and KNOLL, Andrew H.3, (1)Department of Earth & Space Sciences and Astrobiology Program, University of Washington, Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195; Virtual Planetary Laboratory, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, (2)Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9AL, United Kingdom; Virtual Planetary Laboratory, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, (3)Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, koehlerm@uw.edu
8:45 AM
MID-PROTEROZOIC OXYGEN AND METHANE (Invited Presentation)
PLANAVSKY, Noah J., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, ZHAO, Mingyu, Yale University, 210 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511 and REINHARD, Christopher T., School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340; NASA Astrobiology Institute, Alternative Earths Team, Mountain View, CA 94043, noah.planavsky@yale.edu
9:05 AM
BIOGEOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS OF NUTRIENT AND METAL BURIAL IN PROTEROZOIC LAKES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN LEVELS
RICO, Kathryn, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 CC Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, SHELDON, Nathan D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 and GALLAGHER, Timothy M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 CC Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712, krico@umich.edu
9:20 AM
A PRESERVED MESOPROTEROZOIC OXYCLINE AND A HOSPITABLE LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT FOR EARLY EUKARYOTES
SLOTZNICK, Sarah P.1, SWANSON-HYSELL, Nicholas L.1 and SPERLING, Erik A.2, (1)Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 320, Palo Alto, CA 94305, sslotz@berkeley.edu
 
9:35 AM
Break
9:50 AM
MICROEUKARYOTES IN FERRUGINOUS (FE-RICH) MID-PROTEROZOIC OCEAN ANALOGUES (Invited Presentation)
CROWE, Sean A.1, SIMISTER, Rachel L.1, MARESCA, Julia2 and HALLAM, Steven3, (1)Microbiology & Immunology, and Earth Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2457-2350 Health Sciences Mall, Life Sciences Center, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada, (2)Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, 301 DuPont Hall, 127 The Green, Newark, DE 19716, (3)Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada, sean.crowe@ubc.ca
10:10 AM
LIMITS ON ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN AND ARGON CONCENTRATIONS AT 815 MA
YEUNG, Laurence Y., Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-126, Houston, TX 77005, lyeung@rice.edu
10:25 AM
LIFE AFTER THE “BORING BILLION”: THE FOSSIL RECORD IN THE TONIAN PERIOD (Invited Presentation)
XIAO, Shuhai1, TANG, Qing1, PANG, Ke2, BYKOVA, Natalia3, YE, Qin4 and YUAN, Xunlai5, (1)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, (2)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China, (3)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation, (4)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China, (5)State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China, xiao@vt.edu
10:45 AM
TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY AND RADIOGENIC ISOTOPE CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE CA. 1 GA BYLOT SUPERGROUP
GIBSON, Timothy M., CROCKFORD, Peter W., BUI, Thi Hao, WÖRNDLE-QUOËX, Sarah and HALVERSON, Galen P., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University St, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, Canada, timothy.gibson@mail.mcgill.ca
11:00 AM
ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSILS FROM THE ~1 GA BYLOT SUPERGROUP, BAFFIN ISLAND
AGIĆ, Heda1, PORTER, Susannah M.2, WÖRNDLE, Sarah3, GIBSON, Timothy M.3, CROCKFORD, Peter W.4, KUNZMANN, Marcus5 and HALVERSON, Galen P.3, (1)Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara, 1006 Webb Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (2)Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (3)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University St, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, Canada, (4)Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University St, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, Canada, (5)CSIRO Mineral Resources, Australian Resources Research Centre, Australia and Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia, hagic@geol.ucsb.edu
11:15 AM
EUKARYOTIC SPECIES RICHNESS IN THE EARLY TO MIDDLE NEOPROTEROZOIC
RIEDMAN, Leigh Anne, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Webb Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 and SADLER, Peter, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, lariedman@gmail.com
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