Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

CHRONOS NETWORK FOR EARTH SYSTEM HISTORY: INTEGRATED DATABASES AND TOOLKITS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH A COMMON PORTAL - WWW.CHRONOS.ORG

Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA and Bruce R. Wardlaw, United States Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Samuel A. Bowring, MIT, Cambridge, MA and Doug Fils, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA and Linda Hinnov, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD and Brian Huber, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Robert Leckie, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Charles Marshall, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and James G. Ogg, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN and Peter Sadler, Univ of California, Riverside, CA

71897 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

8:20 AM

RADIO-ISOTOPIC CALIBRATION OF THE PHANEROZOIC GEOLOGICAL TIMESCALE: PROBLEMS OF ACCURACY, PRECISION AND BIAS

Ian Metcalfe, Univ of New England, Armidale, N/A

71853 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

8:40 AM

ID-TIMS U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY: ITS MODERN MANIFESTATION AND FUTURE APPLICATION TO GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE CALIBRATION

Mark D. Schmitz, Boise State Univ, Boise, ID

72636 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

PHANEROZOIC TIMESCALE BASED ON TETRAPOD BIOCHRONOLOGY

Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM

71918 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:20 AM

HIMALAYAN AND TIBETAN GLACIAL CHRONOLOGIES: PROBLEMS, APPROACHES AND CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE

Lewis Andrew Owen, Univ of California, Riverside, CA

71888 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:40 AM

THE AGE OF THE MAROON LOESSITE (COLORADO), AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESOLVING HIGH-FREQUENCY CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE LATE PALEOZOIC ICEHOUSE

Gerilyn S. Soreghan, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael A. Hamilton, Univ of Toronto, Toronto, ON and C. Mark Fanning, The Australian National Univ, Canberra, ACT, N/A and Michael J. Soreghan, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Paul K. Link, Idaho State Univ, Pocatello, ID and Kristy L. Tramp, Rice Univ, Houston, TX and R. Douglas Elmore, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

72275 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

10:20 AM

STRATIGRAPHY AND LAGENIDE FORAMINIFERAL EXTINCTION IN THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY INTERVAL, WESTERN TETHYS (TURKEY AND ITALY)

John Groves, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA and Matthew D. Boyce, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA and Demir Altiner, Middle East Technical Univ, Ankara, N/A and Roberto Rettori, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Piazza Università, Perugia, N/A

72055 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

10:40 AM

LITHOLOGY OF THE BULLA MEMBER (BELLEROPHON FORMATION) IN THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY INTERVAL (SOUTHERN ALPS, ITALY)

Matthew D. Boyce, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA and John R. Groves, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA and Roberto Rettori, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, N/A

72328 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

11:00 AM

EVENT SUCCESSION IN MARINE AND CONTINENTAL BEDS AROUND THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY (PTB)

Heinz W. Kozur, Budapest, N/A

72446 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

11:20 AM

BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL PERMIAN SYSTEM AND ITS CORRELATION IN THE USA

Bruce R. Wardlaw, US Geol Survey, Reston, VA

72556 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

11:40 AM

NEW PERMIAN COLD WATER CONODONT FAUNAS FROM THE TETHYAN GONDWANAN MARGIN OF AUSTRALIA

Robert S. Nicoll, Australian National Univ, Canberra, ACT, N/A

72499 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

20 Building the Global Geologic Time Scale I

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