22 The Paleontology of Marginal Marine Environments

Thursday, 25 March 2004
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:10 PM
  THE MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC FOSSIL HORODYSKIA FROM NORTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA
  M.A. Fedonkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, N/A and E.L. Yochelson, National Museum of Nat History, Washington, DC, N/A
  69900 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:30 PM
  A MIDDLE CAMBRIAN PROTO-CORAL WITH AN ACALCAREOUS, AGGLUTINATED SKELETON
  Ken Leonard, Georgia Perimeter College-Lawrenceville, Lawrenceville, GA
  69538 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:50 PM
  OSTRACODES AS A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN PERMO-CARBONIFEROUS STRATA
  Chris Dewey, Mississippi State Univ, Mississippi State, MS
  69317 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:10 PM
  PLATE TECTONICS AND MARGINAL MARINE OSTRACODA
  T. Markham Puckett, Griffin High School, Griffin, GA
  69874 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:30 PM
  FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHY OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS NIOBRARA CYCLE, MESA VERDE, COLORADO
  Erica M. Sterzinar, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and R. Mark Leckie, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Richard Yuretich, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  70248 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:00 PM
  HIGH-RESOLUTION ESTUARINE SEA LEVEL CYCLES FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS: AMPLITUDE CONSTRAINTS USING AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA
  Neil E. Tibert, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA and R. Mark Leckie, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  69941 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  A NEWLY RECOGNIZED WIDESPREAD BED CONTAINING BOTH FRESH AND BRACKISH ORGANISMS, LOWER TONGUE RIVER MEMBER (UPPER PALEOCENE), S.W. NORTH DAKOTA
  Edward S. Belt, Amherst College, Amherst, MA and Joseph H. Hartman, Univ of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND and Neil E. Tibert, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA and Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA
  69578 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  PALEOECOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ECOSYSTEM HISTORY FROM OSTRACODE SEASONAL ECOLOGY AND SHELL CHEMISTRY IN BISCAYNE BAY, FL
  J.M. Albietz, USGS, Reston, VA and T.M. Cronin, USGS, Reston, VA and G.L. Wingard, USGS, Reston, VA and G.S. Dwyer, Duke Univ, Durham, NC and P.K. Swart, Univ Miami, Miami, FL
  70491 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:00 PM
  RECONSTRUCTION OF RECENT PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF PAMLICO SOUND, NORTH CAROLINA, USING FORAMINIFERA, STABLE ISOTOPES d13C AND d15N, AND SEDIMENTATION RATES
  Irene J. Abbene, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC and Stephen Culver, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC and D. Reide Corbett, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC
  69262 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:20 PM
  MICROBIAL MATS IN SILICICLASTIC COASTAL SEDIMENTS OF THE MODERATE CLIMATE ZONE : A CASE STUDY FROM FISHERMANS ISLAND, VIRGINIA
  Dina M Bower, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA and Nora Noffke, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA
  69721 (THEME SESSIONS)