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GSA CONNECTS 2021
T101. Broken Paradigms: Shallow-Water Disciplines: Continental Scientific Drilling, Paleoclimatology/
Deposition of Organic-Rich Facies through Earth Paleoceanography, Quaternary Geology
History Advocates: Paul Baker; James M. Russell
Endorsers: GSA Marine and Coastal Geoscience Division; GSA This session explores the Neogene and Quaternary history of
Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division; Geochemical Society; tropical Africa, South America, Asia, Australia, and the surround-
GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Energy Geology Division ing oceans to evaluate patterns and mechanisms of tropical
Discipline: Stratigraphy environmental change.
Advocates: Ed Landing; Langhorne B. Smith; Brian R. Pratt
New work is supplanting traditional deep marine (preserva- T105. Reading the Record of Volcanic Tephra and
tional, Black Sea) and upwelling (productivity) models for black Tuff in Geoarchaeological Site Studies and Drill
shale/organic-rich facies. More commonly, these facies show shal- Core Records
low, restricted marine, low-oxygen epeiric sea deposition through Endorsers: GSA Geoarchaeology Division; GSA Mineralogy,
Earth’s history. Geochemistry, Petrology and Volcanology Division
Disciplines: Continental Scientific Drilling, Geoarchaeology,
T102. Correlation of Global Stages, Series, and Sys- Volcanology
tems into North American Stratigraphic Successions Advocates: Jayde Hirniak; Marie D. Jackson
Endorsers: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology); North This session involves investigations of tephra and tuff in drill
American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (NACSN); cores, sediment cores, and outcrops and their applicability to geo-
International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) archaeological studies, specifically, in archaeological materials,
Discipline: Stratigraphy tephrochronology, paleoanthropology, and the synchronization of
Advocates: Richard Fluegeman; Stanley C. Finney; David A.T. paleoenvironmental records.
Harper; Carlton E. Brett
Eighty-eight percent of global stratotype section and points MINERALOGY/CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
(GSSPs) are in stratigraphic successions outside of North America.
The proposed session will demonstrate the system-by-system T106. Gemological Research in the 21st Century—
correlation of the GSSPs and the units they define into the strati- Gem Minerals and Localities
graphic successions of North America. Endorsers: Gemological Institute of America; Mineralogical
Society of America; Society of Economic Geologists
T103. Sedimentary Geology Division/SEPM Student Disciplines: Mineralogy/Crystallography, Economic Geology,
Research Poster Competition: Dynamics of Stratig- Geoscience Information/Communication
raphy and Sedimentation (Posters) Advocates: James Shigley; Wuyi Wang; Barbara Dutrow; John W.
Endorsers: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society Valley; Caroline Nelms
for Sedimentary Geology); GSA Energy Geology Division Gemstones are among the most recognized of all minerals. This
Disciplines: Stratigraphy, Sediments, Clastic, Sediments, Carbonates session focuses on diverse aspects of gems including exploration,
Advocates: Brian Hampton; Amy L. Weislogel deposits and their formation, and identification, as well as mineral
Students (at any level) may present posters of original research on inclusions in gems and their geological implications.
any topics within sedimentary geology: carbonates, clastics, chemi-
cal sediments, ancient and/or modern systems. Posters are judged T107. Volatile Cycles from Earth’s Surface to the
for monetary awards distributed at the “Seds and Suds” reception. Core: In Honor of 2020 Mineralogical Society of
America Medalist Jin Liu
CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING Endorsers: Mineralogical Society of America; High Pressure
Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR); GSA
T104. Neogene and Quaternary Environmental Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division;
Change in the Tropics: Recent Advances and Future Geochemical Society
Opportunities Disciplines: Mineralogy/Crystallography
Endorsers: GSA Continental Scientific Drilling Division; Advocate: Ho-kwang Mao
GSA Limnogeology Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Recent advances in mineral physics have revealed a number of
Geomorphology Division; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology unexpected transitions and phenomena, such as super-oxidation
Division; Geochemical Society

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