GSA Connects 2021 in Portland, Oregon

Session No. 239
Wednesday, 13 October 2021: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 255 (Hybrid Room) (Oregon Convention Center)

T109. Life's Innovations from the Early Earth to the Search on Modern Mars III: Honoring the Career of Andrew H. Knoll

Paleontological Society; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); Geochemical Society

 

Julie K. Bartley, Charles Boyce, Linda Kah, Alan Kaufman, Shuhai Xiao and Nora Noffke, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:40 PM
LAMINA STRUCTURE IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF STROMATOLITE MORPHOLOGY
KAH, Linda, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and BARTLEY, Julie, Geology Department, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN 56082
1:55 PM
WHAT DO CHERT FABRICS TELL US ABOUT PROTEROZOIC MICROFOSSILIFEROUS CHERT?
GAUVEY, Kaitlyn and KAH, Linda, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
2:10 PM
NEW REPORT OF SHALE-HOSTED ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSILS FROM THE EARLY MESOPROTEROZOIC DISMAL LAKES GROUP IN ARCTIC CANADA
LORON, Corentin1, HALVERSON, Galen P.2, RAINBIRD, Robert3, SKULSKI, Tom3, TURNER, Elizabeth C.4 and JAVAUX, Emmanuelle J.1, (1)UR Astrobiology, University of Liege, Allée du six Août, 14, Liège, 4000, Belgium, (2)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, CANADA, (3)Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E8, Canada, (4)Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
2:25 PM
PRIMARY PRODUCERS IN THE ~1GYRS-OLD MBUJI-MAYI SUPERGROUP (DR CONGO)
SFORNA, Marie Catherine1, DEMOULIN, Catherine F.2, LORON, Corentin2, FRANÇOIS, Camille3, CORNET, Yohan2, BEGHIN, Jérémie2, BROCKS, Jochen J.4 and JAVAUX, Emmanuelle J.5, (1)University of LiegeDepartment of Geology, allée du 6 Août, 14, Liège, 4000, BELGIUM, (2)University of Liege, Allée du six Août, 14, Liège, 4000, Belgium, (3)Commission for the Geological Map of the World, 77, rue Claude-Bernard, Paris, 75005, Belgium, (4)The Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, WA ACT, Australia, (5)Geology Department, University of Liège, 4000 Sart-Tilman, Liège, 4000, Belgium
 
2:40 PM
Break
2:55 PM
LESSONS FROM THE CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SINGLE ORGANIC WALLED MICROFOSSILS
JUNIUM, Christopher, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244, COHEN, Phoebe, Department of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, PORTER, Susannah, Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Babara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 and AGIC, Heda, University of California Santa Barbara Dept Earth Science, 1006 Webb Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001
3:10 PM
EVOLUTION OF CARBON FIXATION IN CYANOBACTERIA DURING PRECAMBRIAN TIME
FISCHER, Woodward1, WANG, Renee1, SHIH, Patrick2 and EILER, John M.3, (1)Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, (2)Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94701, (3)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA 91125
3:25 PM
EARLY NOACHIAN TERRAINS ON MARS: VESTIGES OF THE ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF LIFE?
ANDERSON, Robert, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., MS 183-601, Pasadena, CA 91109, DOHM, James M., Exploration Institute, 710 N Post Oak Rd, Ste 400, Houston, TX 77024-3812, BUCZKOWSKI, Debra, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., MS 200-W230, Laurel, MD 20723-6099 and WYRICK, Danielle, Southwest Research Institute Space Science and Engineering Division, 6220 Culebra Rd, San Antonio, TX 78238-5166
 
4:00 PM
Comments from Andrew Knoll
 
4:30 PM
Concluding Remarks
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