GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019

Session No. 236
Wednesday, 25 September 2019: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
North Ballroom 120D, North Building (Phoenix Convention Center)

P6. Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System

GSA Sedimentary Geology Division

 

Qing Tang, Huan Cui and Feifei Zhang, Conveners
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Start Time
8:00 AM
OXYGEN AND THE RISE COMPLEX LIFE
LYONS, Timothy W. and DIAMOND, Charles W., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
8:20 AM
SULFUR CYCLE IMBALANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE DURING THE NEOPROTEROZOIC ERA
SHIELDS, Graham A., Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT and MILLS, Benjamin J., School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
8:40 AM
DID SNOWBALL EARTH DRIVE ENHANCED EROSION RATES?
MACDONALD, Francis A., Department of Earth Science, UCSB, 2111 Webb Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 and FLOWERS, Rebecca, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Campus Box 399, 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309
9:00 AM
NEOPROTEROZOIC GLOBAL PALEOGEOGRAPHY REVISITED
LI, Zheng-Xiang1, PISAREVSKY, Sergei1, WU, Lei1, LOU, Yebo1 and ERNST, Richard E.2, (1)Earth Dynamics Research Group, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, WA GPO Box U1987, Australia, (2)Department of Earth Science, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1N5B6, Canada; Faculty of Geology and Geography, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Ave, Tomsk, 634050, Russian Federation
9:20 AM
LATE TONIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA
DEHLER, Carol M.1, SCHMITZ, Mark D.2, BULLARD, Abigail R.1, BLAKEY, Ronald3, KARLSTROM, Karl E.4 and TIMMONS, J. Michael5, (1)Department of Geology, Utah State University, 4505 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, (2)Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725-1535, (3)Colorado Plateau Geosystems, 1663 Chamisal ct, Carlsbad, CA 92011, (4)Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (5)New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801
9:40 AM
NEW RE-OS AGES AND OS GEOCHEMISTRY FROM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC: FRESH INSIGHTS INTO LINKS BETWEEN CLIMATE, ANIMAL EVOLUTION AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
ROONEY, Alan, Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511
10:00 AM
SOME THOUGHTS ON BIOMARKERS, AEROBIC RESPIRATION, AND THE NATURE OF EARLY EUKARYOTES
PORTER, Susannah M., Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
10:20 AM
CAROTENOIDSAS ENVIRONMENTAL BIOMARKERS IN NEOPROTEROZOIC SEDIMENTS AND OILS
SUMMONS, Roger E., Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, E25-633, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, CUI, Xingqian, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, ROCHER, Donald, GeoMark Research, 9748 Whithorn Dr, Houston, TX 77095, ZUMBERGE, John E., GeoMark Research, Ltd, 9748 Whithorn Drive, Houston, TX 77095 and ZUMBERGE, J. Alex, Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0423
10:40 AM
GENERATING DEVELOPMENTAL CAPACITY DURING AN INTERVAL OF INTENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF ANIMALS
ERWIN, Douglas H., Dept. of Paleobiology MRC-121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012
11:00 AM
WHEN LIFE GOT HARD: AN ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVER FOR METAZOAN BIOMINERALIZATION
KAUFMAN, Alan J., Department of Geology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, KRIESFELD, Les, Monash University, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Melbourne, 3800, Australia, VICKERS-RICH, Patricia, School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Australia and NARBONNE, Guy M., Queens University, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, 36 Union Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
11:20 AM
THE CREDIBILITY OF CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS
JIANG, Ganqing, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010
11:40 AM
USING SIMS DATA TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF AUTHIGENIC CARBONATE IN THE ORIGIN OF CHAOTIC STRATIGRAPHIC VARIATIONS OF CARBON ISOTOPES IN THE EARLY EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION
XIAO, Shuhai1, CUI, Huan2, KANG, Junyao1, MCFADDEN, Kathleen A.3, KAUFMAN, Alan J.4, KITAJIMA, Kouki5, FOURNELLE, John H.6 and VALLEY, John W.7, (1)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, (2)Analytical, Environmental, and Geo- Chemistry Group, Division of Earth System Science, Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Brussels, 1050, Belgium; ET-HOME (Evolution and Tracers of the Habitability of Mars and Earth) Astrobiology Research Consortium, Brussels, 1050, Belgium; NASA Astrobiology Institute & WiscSIMS, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, (3)ConocoPhillips Company, 600 N Dairy Ashford, Houston, TX 77077, (4)Department of Geology and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, (5)Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, (6)Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, (7)WiscSIMS Laboratory, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706