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GSA2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
Advocates: Brian T. Huber; Pincelli M. Hull; Kenneth G. MacLeod T134. The North American Terrestrial Record of Climatic GSA TODAY | www.geosociety.org/gsatoday
Change across the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary
This session brings together experts from the marine micro
paleontology, marine biogeochemistry, global volcanism, and Cosponsors: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest
modeling communities to discuss how volcanism influenced Group; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for
changes in past ecosystems, biotic evolution, and global climate Sedimentary Geology)
during the Cretaceous and Paleogene.
Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
T131. Marine and Terrestrial Records of Extreme Climates and Paleoecology/Taphonomy, Sediments, Clastic
Extinction: Making Sense of Similarities and Differences
Advocates: Emmett Evanoff; Jason R. Moore; Dennis Terry Jr.
Cosponsors: GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary
Interest Group; GSA Limnogeology Division; Paleontological This session highlights the evidence for paleoclimatic change
Society; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the North American
Sedimentary Geology) terrestrial record and the complexity of the continental response
to the transition from the Greenhouse to Icehouse worlds.
Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
Diversity, Extinction, Origination, Geochemistry T135. Timing, Drivers, and Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystem
Responses to the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event
Advocates: Julio Sepúlveda; Kathryn E. Snell
Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; GSA Sedimentary Geology
Paleoclimate records that span extinction events provide insight Division; GSA Soils and Soil Processes Interdisciplinary Interest
into the role of global environmental perturbations on marine Group; Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
and terrestrial ecosystems. We welcome studies that explore the
mechanisms behind global perturbations and/or records of Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
ecosystem response. Diversity, Extinction, Origination, Stratigraphy
T132. Microfossil Proxies in Earth History (Posters) Advocates: Andrew Flynn; Caitlin E. Leslie; Daniel J. Peppe
Cosponsors: Cushman Foundation; Geochemical Society; This session will focus on Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene
Paleontological Research Institution; Paleontological Society; GSA marine and terrestrial ecosystems, paleoclimate, paleoecology,
Limnogeology Division sedimentology, and stratigraphy, and how they were affected by
the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Paleontology,
Biogeography/Biostratigraphy, Paleontology, Paleoecology/ PALEONTOLOGY
Taphonomy
T136. Across Space and through Time: Understanding
Advocates: Miriam E. Katz; Laurel S. Collins Evolution and Ecology Using Biogeography
This session brings together marine and terrestrial microfossil Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research
proxy-based research (assemblages, geochemistry, modern Institution
analogs) to improve our understanding of evolving oceans, land,
and climate through Earth history and the floral/faunal responses Disciplines: Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy,
to those changes. Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination, Paleontology,
Paleoecology / Taphonomy.
T133. New Views of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Advocates: Alexander M. Dunhill; Erin E. Saupe
Cosponsors: Cushman Foundation; Geochemical Society;
Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research Institution; GSA This session will explore the impact of a dynamic planet on
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division biogeography, with topics including the maintenance and origin
of biodiversity, the influence of plate tectonics on diversification,
Disciplines: Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Geochemistry, and dynamics of species’ distributions through time.
Volcanology
T137. Conodonts from Shallow Water and Related Environments
Advocates: Kenneth G. Miller; Miriam E. Katz
Cosponsors: Paleontological Society; The Pander Society
This session explores new evidence for the rate and cause of the
Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum and attendant carbon isotopic Disciplines: Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy,
excursion, focusing on intriguing links between impact events and Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy, Paleontology, Diversity,
volcanism and geochemical and paleontological responses. Extinction, Origination
Advocates: F. Nicole Peavey; Steven J. Rosscoe
This Pander Society topical session and meeting is open to all
conodont-related talks, with particular attention paid this year to
paleobiologic and sequence biostratigraphic characteristics of
conodonts of shallow water environments.
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