22 Sequence Stratigraphic Approaches to Paleobiologic and Sedimentologic Investigations of Lower Paleozoic Strata of the Northern Appalachians

Tuesday, 15 March 2005
1:00 PM - 4:50 PM

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  THE MOTIF OF DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES ACROSS A CARBONATE-TO-CLASTIC, ACTIVE FORELAND PROFILE: EXAMPLES FROM THE MIDDLE PALEOZOIC APPALACHIAN BASIN
  Patrick McLaughlin, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  83440 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:20 PM
  SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC COMPARISONS OF THE BLACK RIVER-TRENTON BOUNDARY INTERVAL: IMPLICATIONS FOR TACONIC FORELAND BASIN DYNAMICS
  Sean Cornell, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA and Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Patrick McLaughlin, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  83715 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  PRELIMINARY SEQUENCE AND EVENT STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS WITHIN THE HELDERBERG GROUP (SILURIAN – DEVONIAN) BETWEEN NEW YORK AND THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN BASIN
  James R. Ebert, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY and Damon K. Matteson, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
  82886 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF MIDDLE DEVONIAN (LATEST EIFELIAN-EARLY GIVETIAN) DEPOSITS IN SOUTWESTERN ONTARIO, NORTHERN OHIO AND NEW YORK: IMPLICATIONS INTERBASINAL CORRELATION
  Alex Bartholomew, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Carl Brett, N/A, N/A
  83350 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  QUANTIFYING SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE USING FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE DATA: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF NEW YORK STATE
  Jocelyn Sessa, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA
  83606 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:00 PM
  TESTING FOR FAUNAL STABILITY ACROSS A REGIONAL BIOTIC TRANSITION: QUANTIFYING STASIS AND VARIATION AMONG RECURRING CORAL BIOFACIES IN THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN APPALACHIAN BASIN
  James R. Bonelli, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  83439 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY, FOSSIL ASSOCIATIONS, AND DIVERSITY IN THE PALEOZOIC APPALACHIAN BASIN
  Carlton Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Alex Bartholomew, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Patrick McLaughlin, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  83332 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:50 PM
  EARLY ORIGIN OF SHALE FABRIC BY GRAVITATIONAL COMPACTION OF FLOCCULATED CLAY
  David R. Blood, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY and Gary G. Lash, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
  82561 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:10 PM
  CHARACTERIZING FLOODPLAIN VEGETATION FROM PLANT ROOT TRACE PATTERNS: CATSKILL FORMATION (UPPER DEVONIAN)
  Jeremy D. Apgar, Susquehanna Univ, Selinsgrove, PA and Jennifer M. Elick, Susquehanna Univ, Selinsgrove, PA
  83646 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:30 PM
  PALYNOFACIES ANALYSIS AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION ACROSS THE DEVONIAN CATSKILL FRONT
  John H. Beck, Weston Observatory of Boston College, Weston, MA and Charles A. Ver Straeten, New York State Museum, Albany, NY and Paul K. Strother, Boston College, Weston, MA
  83441 (THEME SESSIONS)