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GSA 2019 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
STRATIGRAPHY
Advocates: Suzanne OConnell; Ken Miller; David Mallinson;
T81. Hello (Ancient) World!: Exploring the James D. Wright
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Interval by Scientific Ocean Drilling, an international ocean discovery
Quantitatively Probing the Rock Record program, has been seminal in developing our understanding of
Disciplines: Stratigraphy, Precambrian Geology, Sediments, earth systems. This session will provide an overview of past and
Carbonates current accomplishments and highlight future opportunities.
Advocates: Akshay Mehra; Bolton Howes; Ryan Manzuk
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata contain ambiguous and T85. Laurentian Evolution during the Late
enigmatic signals of a tumultuous time in earth history. How can Mississippian to Early Permian: Interactions
novel quantitative data collection and analysis techniques help and Feedbacks between Tectonism, Climate, and
decode the events of this interval? Sedimentary Systems
Cosponsors: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology);
T82. Chemostratigraphy: Physical and GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Temporal Applications Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Structural Geology, Tectonics/
Cosponsors: North American Commission on Stratigraphic Tectonophysics
Nomenclature; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Advocates: Daniel M. Sturmer; Tandis S. Bidgoli; Mike Blum;
Disciplines: Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, Paleontology, Gerilyn S. Soreghan; Ryan J. Leary; Paul J. Umhoefer; M. Elliot
Biogeography/Biostratigraphy Smith
Advocates: Richard H. Fluegeman; Robert W. Scott; Carlton E. In this session, we seek to explore the interplay of tectonism,
Brett; Brian R. Pratt climate, and sedimentation during the Late Mississippian to
This session will focus on the use of chemical records pre- early Permian in Laurentia. We encourage contributions from
served in sedimentary deposits for correlation, but will also the depositional system scale to the plate scale.
showcase other applications of chemostratigraphy in the solution
of diverse geologic problems. T86. Inverting Source from Sink:
Decoding Sedimentary Records of Climate,
T83. Advances in Using Sedimentary Data to Erosion, and Vegetation
Constrain the Timing and Rates of Geologic Cosponsors: GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
Events and Processes Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Soils and
Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Soil Processes Division; GSA Karst Division
Geochronology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Geomorphology,
Tectonics Division Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
Disciplines: Stratigraphy, Geochronology, Tectonics/ Advocates: Joanmarie Del Vecchio; Troy Ferland; Sarah A.
Tectonophysics Schanz; Matthew Cross Jungers
Advocates: Theresa M. Schwartz; Matthew A. Malkowski; Climate, vegetation, and erosion stories of the past are told
Glenn R. Sharman through sedimentary records that comprise the interactions
We encourage abstracts that highlight innovative uses of sedi- between these very forces. How can we disentangle the causal
mentary data (e.g., isotopic, geochronologic) to constrain the relationships between these factors?
timing and rates of geologic events and processes. Studies
focused on a broad range of geologic time scales, settings, and SEDIMENTS, CARBONATES
methods are welcome.
T87. GSA Sedimentary Geology Division/
SEDIMENTS, CLASTIC SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Student Research Poster Competition: Dynamics
T84. Scientific Ocean Drilling’s Impact on of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (Posters)
Geoscience: Past, Present, and Future Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM
Cosponsors: GSA Continental Scientific Drilling Division; GSA (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division; GSA Geochronology Disciplines: Sediments, Carbonates, Sediments, Clastic,
Division; GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Geoscience Stratigraphy
Education Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Advocate: Amy L. Weislogel
Division; GSA History and Philosophy of Geology Division; Students (at any level) may present posters of original research
GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology on any topics within sedimentary geology: carbonates, clastics,
Division; GSA International; Cushman Foundation; GSA chemical sediments, and ancient and/or modern systems. Posters
Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Hydrogeology Division; are judged for monetary awards distributed at the “Seds and
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; SEPM (Society Suds” reception.
for Sedimentary Geology)
Disciplines: Sediments, Clastic, Paleoclimatology/
Paleoceanography, Tectonics/Tectonophysics

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