T117 Causes and Effects of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and Other Paleogene Hyperthermal Events I

Monday, 17 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  ASTRONOMICAL PACING OF LATE PALAEOCENE TO EARLY EOCENE GLOBAL WARMING EVENTS
  Lucas J. Lourens, Utrecht University, Utrecht, N/A
  90554 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  THE THIRD AND FINAL EARLY EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM: CHARACTERISTICS, TIMING, AND MECHANISMS OF THE "X" EVENT
  Ursula Roehl, Bremen University, Bremen, N/A and Thomas Westerhold, Bremen University, Bremen, N/A and Simonetta Monechi, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, N/A and Ellen Thomas, Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT and James C. Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, CA and Barbara Donner, Bremen University, Bremen, N/A
  92425 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  NEW HIGH-RESOLUTION CHRONOLOGY FROM THE FIRST COMPLETE LATE PALEOCENE – EARLY EOCENE MARINE RECORDS FROM WALVIS RIDGE: DURATION OF CHRON C24R AND NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF EARLY EOCENE GLOBAL WARMING EVENTS
  Thomas Westerhold, Bremen University, Bremen, N/A and Ursula Roehl, Bremen University, Bremen and Jacques Laskar, IMCCE-CNRS UMR8028, Paris, N/A and Julie Bowles, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA and Isabella Raffi, Università "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti, Chieti Scalo, N/A and J.C. Zachos, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
  94837 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  THE WATER CYCLE OF THE PETM: EVIDENCE IN HAND AND THE DATA WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
  Gabriel J. Bowen, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  94041 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN CO2 DISEQUILIBRIUM AND THE HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE DURING THE PETM: AN ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE
  Mark Pagani, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Nikolai Pedentchouk, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Matthew Huber, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Appy Sluijs, Utrecht University, Utrecht, N/A and Stefan Schouten, Netherlands Institute for Sea Rsch, Den Burg, N/A and Henk Brinkhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, N/A and Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, Netherlands Institute for Sea Rsch, Den Burg, N/A and Gerald Dickens, Rice Univ, Houston, TX
  92658 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  ENHANCED CONTINENTAL WEATHERING AND PEDOGENESIS ACROSS THE PALEOCENE/EOCENE BOUNDARY IN THE U.S. WESTERN INTERIOR (NORTH DAKOTA)
  Elizabeth R. Clechenko, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and D.C. Kelly, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and C.A. Stiles, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI and G.J. Harrington, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, N/A and J.W. Valley, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  94620 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  QUANTIFYING LIMITS ON EXTINCTION AND DIVERSIFICATION RATES DURING RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE EVENTS: CALCAREOUS NANNOPLANKTON AT THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM
  Samantha J. Gibbs, National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton, N/A and Timothy J. Bralower, Pennsylvania State Univiversity, University Park, PA and Paul Bown, University College London, London, N/A
  93669 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  FLORISTIC CHANGES AT THE PETM IN THE NEOTROPICS
  Carlos A. Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, N/A and Guillermo Rodriguez, Universidad Eafit, Medellin, N/A and Patrice Brenac, Brenac Consultants, London, N/A and Milton Rueda, Bucaramanga, N/A
  97255 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  EXTREME WARMING OF THE MID-LATITUDE COASTAL OCEAN DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM: INFERENCES FROM TEX86 AND ISOTOPE DATA
  James C. Zachos, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Stefan Schouten, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, N/A and Steven Bohaty, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Thomas Quattlebaum, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Appy Sluijs, Utrecht Univ, Utrecht, N/A and Henk Brinkhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, N/A and Lisa C. Sloan, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
  95639 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  ABRUPT CLIMATIC AND SEA LEVEL CHANGES ACROSS THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY, AS RECORDED IN AN ANCIENT COASTAL PLAIN SETTING (PYRENEES, SPAIN)
  Victoriano Pujalte, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, N/A and Birger Schmitz, University of Lund, Lund, N/A
  93363 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  TRANSIENT DRYING DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM (PETM): ANALYSIS OF PALEOSOLS IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING
  Mary J. Kraus, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Susan Riggins, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  93997 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  INTRUSIVE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY CAUSING INITIAL EOCENE GLOBAL WARMING BY EXPLOSIVE RELEASE OF LARGE VOLUMES OF GREENHOUSE GASES FROM METAMORPHIC AUREOLES
  Sverre Planke, oslo, N/A and Henrik Svensen, University of Oslo, Oslo, N/A and Anders Malthe-Sørensen, University of Oslo, Oslo, N/A and Bjørn Jamtveit, University of Oslo, Oslo, N/A and Reidun Myklebus, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, N/A and Sebastian S. Rey, N/A, N/A and Torfinn R. Eidem, oslo, N/A
  94917 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  A CONTINENTAL SCENARIO FOR THE PETM: PEAT/COAL CAPACITOR, OROGENIC/CLIMATIC TRIGGER
  Scott Wing, Smithsonian Institution Dept. of Paleobiology, MRC121, Washington, DC
  94450 (Technical Sessions)