Session: From Coastal Lowlands to Shallow Shelf: Environmental Processes of the Coastal Critical Zone through Time and Space (GSA Connects 2023 Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Session No. 217

Wednesday, 18 October 2023: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

303 (David L Lawrence Convention Center)

T72. From Coastal Lowlands to Shallow Shelf: Environmental Processes of the Coastal Critical Zone through Time and Space

Paleontological Society; GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; Cushman Foundation; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division

Samuel Neely and Michelle Chrpa, Advocates

Paper #

Start Time

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

217-1

8:15 AM

DECOMPOSITION DYNAMICS OF LITTERFALL IN MANGROVE ECOSYSTEMS

NEELY, Samuel, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 and RAYMOND, Anne, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

217-2

8:30 AM

PEAT TAPHONOMY AND FUNGAL DISTRIBUTIONS PRESERVED IN A COASTAL LIGNITE FROM THE MIOCENE OF NORTHWESTERN PERU

O'KEEFE, Jen, Morehead State University, Department of Physics, Earth Science, and Space Systems Engineering, 405-C Lappin Hall, Morehead, MS 40351, MARSH, Christopher, Morehead State University, Department of Physics, Earth Science, and Space Systems Engineering, 123 Lappin Hall, Morehead, KY 40351, OCHOA, Diana, Department of Geology, University of Salamanca, Patio de Escuelas, 1, Salamanca, 37008, Spain and ROMERO, Ingrid, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560

217-3

8:45 AM

THE DEPTH OF COAL-BALL FORMATION

RAYMOND, Anne, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, NEELY, Samuel, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 and CHRPA, Michelle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

9:00 AM

Discussion

217-4

9:15 AM

GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES OF SAND DOLAR TESTS (MELLITA TENUIS) FROM TWO DISPARATE ENVIRONMENTS ALONG THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA

KOWALEWSKI, Michal¹, TORRES Jr., Luis¹, KOLBUK, Dorota² and GORZELAK, Przemysław³, (1)Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, (2)UCD Earth Institute and School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Dublin, Ireland, (3)Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Environmental Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, Warszawa, 00818, Poland

217-5

9:30 AM

THE ANCIENT SEAWATER ARCHIVE OF ECHINODERMS FROM THE CRITICAL ZONE OF THE LATE PENNSYLVANIAN MIDCONTINENT SEA

CHRPA, Michelle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 and RAYMOND, Anne, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

217-6

9:45 AM

GRADIENT ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF A MIXED CARBONATE-SILICICLASTIC SHELF, MIDDLE EOCENE (LUTETIAN – BARTONIAN) U.S. GULF COASTAL PLAIN

HENSEN, Corey, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, 112 Hollister Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, IVANY, Linda, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University, 141 Crouse Dr, Syracuse, NY 13210 and ALLMON, Warren D., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850

10:00 AM

Break

217-7

10:15 AM

FILLING THE EARLY OLIGOCENE GAP IN THE RECORD OF CARIBBEAN REEF CORALS

STEMANN, Thomas and MITCHELL, Simon, Department of Geography and Geology, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, 18 College Common, Mona, 7, Jamaica

217-8

10:30 AM

Withdrawn

217-9

10:45 AM

LATE MIOCENE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS LEADING TO MARINE VERTEBRATE MASS DEATH ASSEMBLAGE IN THE NORTHERN CHILEAN COAST

MARTINEZ, Priscilla¹, CARRAPA, Barbara¹, CLEMENTZ, Mark², GUTSTEIN, Carolina S.³, HASIOTIS, Stephen⁴, MUÑOZ, Fabían A.³ and WORRELL, Whitney E.², (1)Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (2)Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, (3)Universidad de Chile, Red Paleontológica U-Chile, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Nunoa, Santiago 7800003, Chile, (4)Geology, Univ of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-7613

217-10

11:00 AM

UNCOVERING THE PAST: UTILIZING INVERTEBRATE SUB-FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES FROM BELIZEAN LAGOONAL REEFS TO DETERMINE DRIVERS AND TIMING FOR CARIBBEAN REEF ECOSYSTEM DECLINE

O'QUIN, Megan¹, MANROSS, Miranda¹, JUSTICE, Ian¹, CRAMER, Katie², O'DEA, Aaron³, NORRIS, Richard D.⁴ and LEONARD-PINGEL, Jill⁵, (1)School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, NA, Panama, (4)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0208, La Jolla, CA 92093, (5)School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Newark, 1179 University Drive, Newark, OH 43055

11:15 AM

Discussion

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