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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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