T186 Causes and Effects of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and Other Paleogene Hyperthermal Events II

Tuesday, 18 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  A DETAILED CLIMATE STUDY OF THE EARLY PALEOGENE LARAMIDE FORELAND
  Jacob O. Sewall, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Lisa Cirbus Sloan, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
  91606 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  INCREASED CARBON ISOTOPE DISCRIMINATION BY PLANTS DURING THE PETM: RECONCILING TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS
  Francesca A. Smith, Penn State University, University Park, PA and Scott Wing, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC and Katherine H. Freeman, Penn State University, University Park, PA
  90238 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  CARBON AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS OF DECIDUOUS CONIFERS UNDER A CONTINUOUS-LIGHT ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HIGH-LATITUDINAL PLANT ISOTOPE RECORD AT PETM
  Hong Yang, Yale University, Smithfield, RI and M. Alejandra Equiza, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Richard Jagels, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Mark Pagani, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Derek Briggs, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  93611 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  ESTIMATING PCO2 ACROSS THE PETM USING CARBON ISOTOPE RATIOS OF PALEOSOL CARBONATES AND ORGANIC MATTER FROM THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING
  Henry Fricke, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Gabriel Bowen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  95185 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND ITS ENSUING RECOVERY DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM AS CHRONICLED BY SPATIAL/TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF CARBONATE SEDIMENTATION IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND SOUTHERN OCEANS
  D.C. Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and J.C. Zachos, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA and S.A. Schellenberg, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and T.M. Nielsen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and H. McCarren, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
  94487 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA AND EARLY EOCENE HYPERTHERMAL EVENTS (SE ATLANTIC OCEAN)
  Ellen Thomas, Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT and Heather McCarren, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Houston, TX
  90941 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  MIDDLE EOCENE WARMING ON SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTICA: CONTINENTAL SHELF PALEOTEMPERATURES RECORDED IN MOLLUSCAN CARBONATES
  Linda C. Ivany, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and Kyger C. Lohmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Franciszek Hasiuk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  96130 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  PALEOCENE-EOCENE CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSION AND MAMMALIAN FAUNAL CHANGE IN THE HONEYCOMBS AREA OF THE SOUTHERN BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING
  Johan Yans, Mons Engineering, Mons, N/A and Suzanne G. Strait, Marshall University, Huntington, WV and Thierry Smith, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, N/A and Christian Dupuis, Mons Engineering, Mons, N/A and Etienne Steurbaut, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, N/A and Philip Gingerich, Ann Arbor, MI
  97626 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  ABSENCE OF PRESERVED MANGANIFEROUS RHIZOLITHS WITHIN THE PETM INTERVAL AND ITS CLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS
  Daniel T. Woody, Univ of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO and Jon J. Smith, The Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Mary J. Kraus, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Stephen Hasiotis, Univ KansasDept Geology, 116 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS
  97678 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  BIRDS (AVES) ACROSS THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY: EVIDENCE FROM WYOMING
  Thomas A. Stidham, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX
  94609 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  LONG-TERM ORBITAL SCALE PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY ACROSS THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC: INFERENCES FROM ISOTOPE AND GEOCHEMICAL CORE LOG DATA
  H.K. McCarren, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and J.C. Zachos, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and U. Roehl, Bremen Univ, Bremen, N/A and Thomas Westerhold, Bremen Univ, Bremen, N/A
  94387 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  SEARCHING NEW ZEALAND OUTCROPS FOR ELMO
  Micah J. Nicolo, Rice University, Houston, TX and Gerald R. Dickens, Rice University, Houston, TX and Chris Hollis, Institute of Geol and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, N/A
  97287 (Technical Sessions)