Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

CALIBRATION OF MIDDLE TO LATE PENNSYLVANIAN TIME SCALE USING SUCCESSION OF GLACIAL-EUSTATIC MIDCONTINENT CYCLOTHEMS

Philip H. Heckel, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

103008 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

8:20 AM

RE-DEFINITION OF THE ST. LOUIS-STE. GENEVIEVE BOUNDARY IN SOUTHEASTERN IOWA

Daniel Snyder, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

103363 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

8:40 AM

CORRELATING AND CHARACTERIZING SMALL-SCALE FLOODING SURFACES WITHIN A HIGH-FREQUENCY SEQUENCE USING CONODONT DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS: IOLA LIMESTONE (UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN), MIDCONTINENT USA

Karl W. Leonard, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN

103630 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

SEDIMENTATION AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE MANSFIELD FORMATION IN MARTIN COUNTY, INDIANA

Glenn Simonelli, Indiana University, Bloomngton, IN and Claudia C. Johnson, N/A and Erika R. Elswick, N/A and Erle G. Kauffman, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

103500 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:20 AM

PROXIMAL FACIES OF THE UPPER FREEPORT AND ASSOCIATED CYCLOTHEMS IN THE VICINITY OF THE ALLEGHENY FRONT, NORTHERN APPALACHIAN BASIN

Edward S. Belt, Amherst College, Amherst, MA and Ronald L. Martino, Marshall Univ, Huntington, WV and Leonard J. Lentz, Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Middletown, PA and Timothy W. Lyons, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Philip H. Heckel, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

101512 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:40 AM

SPIRORBIS AS AN INDICATOR OF MARINE INFLUENCE IN PENNSYLVANIAN CYCLOTHEMS

Christopher F. Cassle, Environmental Resources Management, Greenwood Village, CO and Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Ronald L. Martino, Marshall University, Huntington, WV

102900 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

10:20 AM

STRATIGRAPHY AND DEPOSITIONAL FRAMEWORK OF THE TWOMILE LIMESTONE (LATE PENNSYLVANIAN) OF WEST VIRGINIA

Ronald L. Martino, Marshall University, Huntington, WV and Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Bascombe M. Blake, West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, Morgantown, WV and Cortland F. Eble, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

103584 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

10:40 AM

FLUVIAL-ESTUARINE CHANNELS IN THE PARAGON FORMATION AND PENNINGTON GROUP, UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN, EASTERN KENTUCKY

Stephen F. Greb, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

103572 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

11:00 AM

METEORIC SPHAEROSIDERITE LINES FROM THE ATOKAN (LANGSETTIAN) CROOKED FORK GROUP, EASTERN TENNESSEE: A FIRST-CUT COMPARISON BETWEEN PALEOEQUATORIAL PRECIPITATION RATES FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS ICEHOUSE AND CRETACEOUS GREENHOUSE WORLDS

Greg A. Ludvigson, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Luis A. González, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Steven G. Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX

103445 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

11:20 AM

LINKING MIDDLE TO LATE PENNSYLVANIAN CLIMATE CHANGE TO VARIATIONS IN ICHNOFAUNA AND PEDOGENIC DEVELOPMENT IN FLOODPLAIN AND LACUSTRINE PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE APPALACHIAN BASIN

Daniel I. Hembree, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Gregory C. Nadon, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Alycia L. Stigall, Ohio University, Athens, OH

103293 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

11:40 AM

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PENNSYLVANIAN SAGINAW AQUIFER, CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN, USA

Niah B. Venable, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI and David A. Barnes, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

103335 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

12:00 PM

PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE MISSISSIPPIAN (CHESTERIAN) LOYALHANNA MEMBER OF THE MAUCH CHUNK FORMATION, KEYSTONE QUARRY, SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Gillian M. Krezoski, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Karen G. Havholm, Univ of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Christopher S. Swezey, US Geological Survey, Reston, VA

103145 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

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