T172 Sedimentary Geology and Earth History: Retrospective and Prospective: In Honor of the Career and Contributions of Robert H. Dott Jr.

Tuesday, 9 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  SOUTH GEORGIA REVISITED: HOW AND WHY DID IT SEPARATE FROM SOUTH AMERICA?
  Ian W.D. Dalziel, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  73836 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  EVOLVING INTERPRETATIONS OF CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN CRATONIC SHEET SANDSTONES
  Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  77500 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF STRATIGRAPHIC ORDER -- BOB DOTT'S INFLUENCE
  Dennis R. Kerr, The Univ of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
  78009 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  FLUCTUATING RATES AND EPISODIC LAKES: A NEW VIEW OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION
  Alan R. Carroll, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Jeffrey T. Pietras, BP Exploration Alaska, Inc, Anchorage, AK and M. Elliot Smith, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Brad Singer, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  79623 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  QUANTIFICATION OF THE EFFECTS OF EUSTASY, SUBSIDENCE, AND SEDIMENT SUPPLY ON MIOCENE SEQUENCES, U.S. MID-ATLANTIC MARGIN
  James V. Browning, Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ and Kenneth G. Miller, Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ and Michelle A. Kominz, Western Michigan Univ, Kalamazoo, MI and Peter P. McLaughlin, Delaware Geol Survey, Newark, DE and Peter J. Sugarman, New Jersey Geol Survey, Trenton, NJ and Donald H. Monteverde, New Jersey Geol Survey, Trenton, NJ
  79672 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  FROM OUTCROP TO PALEOGEOGRAPHY – RECONSTRUCTING THE PERMIAN HERMIT FORMATION AND RELATED ROCKS, COLORADO PLATEAU
  Ronald C. Blakey, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ and Erin Nancy Eastwood, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ
  78981 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  RED ROCK DIAGENESIS: FROM EARTH TO MARS
  Marjorie A. Chan, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Brenda Beitler, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and William T. Parry, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Jens Ormö, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, N/A and Goro Komatsu, Università d’Annunzio, Pescara, N/A
  76551 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  TESTING GEOLOGIC HYPOTHESES THROUGH MULTIPLE WORKING CONSTRAINTS
  Thomas W. Doe, Golder Associates Inc, Redmond, WA
  81066 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  REDUCTIONISM VERSUS SELF-ORGANIZATION OF EOLIAN BEDFORMS - A PARADIGM SHIFT
  Gary A. Kocurek, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX
  77267 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  ADVANCES IN DETERMINING GEOMETRIES OF SEDIMENTARY BODIES, FROM 1.5 TO 3 DIMENSIONS
  Richard Langford, University of Texas El PasoGeological Sciences, El Paso, TX
  80472 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  SECULAR RISE OF BIOTIC SOILS AND DETRITAL CLAY MINERALS AS A CONTROL OF ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL AND THE RISE OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN IN THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN
  Martin J. Kennedy, Univ of California Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and David D. Mrofka, Univ of California Riverside, Riverside, CA and David Pevear, Houston, TX
  78409 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  THE ORGANIC MEMORY OF SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS AS AN INDICATOR OF THE PAST LIVES OF PARTICLES
  Elana L. Leithold, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC and Neal E. Blair, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC
  80194 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  SHAPING GENERATIONS; THE IMPACT OF "EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH "ON HISTORICAL GEOLOGY
  Gary L. Gianniny, FORT LEWIS COLLEGE, Durango, CO
  81062 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT IN DINOSAUR PALEONTOLOGY
  David Fastovsky, 153 Dockray St. Department of Geosciences, Wakefield, RI
  77548 (Technical Sessions)