Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

THE MAGNITUDE OF CARBONIFEROUS–PERMIAN GLACIOEUSTATIC FLUCTUATIONS: A REVIEW

Michael C. Rygel, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY and Christopher R. Fielding, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Tracy D. Frank, Univ of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE and Lauren P. Birgenheier, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

107329 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENTIATION DURING THE LATE VISÉAN WARM PHASE BEFORE THE ONSET OF THE LATE CARBONIFEROUS ICE AGE

Andrew B. Leslie, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Unviversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

114020 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

FLORISTIC TURN-OVER AND STABILITY IN THE NAMURIAN (SERPUKHOVIAN-LOWER BASHKIRIAN) OF THE UPPER SILESIAN COAL BASIN (POLAND) AS AN INDICATOR OF PALEOCLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE MID-CARBONIFEROUS TROPICS

Anna Kotasowa, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Adam Kotas, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Unviversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

115326 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM STABILITY IN THE SEPURKOVIAN (NAMURIAN) TO BASHKIRIAN (LANGSETTIAN) OF THE SILESIAN BASIN, CZECH REPUBLIC

Robert Gastaldo, Colby College Dept Geology, Waterville, ME and Eva Purkynová, Silesian Regional Museum, Opava, N/A and Zbyněk Šimůnek, Czech Geological Survey, Prague, N/A

110463 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

COMPARISON OF MEGAFLORAL CHANGES ACROSS THE BARBORA AND ENNA MARINE ZONES, OSTRAVA FORMATION (SERPUKHOVIAN [NAMURIAN A]), UPPER SILESIAN BASIN, CZECH REPUBLIC

Zbyněk Šimůnek, Czech Geological Survey, Prague, N/A and Eva Purkynová, Silesian Regional Museum, Opava, N/A and Robert Gastaldo, Colby College Dept Geology, Waterville, ME

109821 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

CLIMATIC SIGNAL IN THE TROPICS BASED ON PLANT-TAPHONOMY DURING EARLY STAGES OF THE CARBONIFEROUS ICEHOUSE INTERVAL (NAMURIAN, LUBLIN BASIN, POLAND)

Teresa Migier, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Albin Zdanowski, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Unviversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

115401 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

PALEOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS ACROSS THE MID-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY REFLECTED IN PALEOFLORA ASSEMBLAGE OF PEAT-FORMING ENVIRONMENTS (LATE VISEAN THROUGH BASHKIRIAN, LUBLIN BASIN, POLAND)

Aleksandra Trzepierczynska, Polish Geological Institute, Sosnowiec, N/A and Albin Zdanowski, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Cortland F. Eble, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

115300 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF THE LATE MISSISSIPPIAN – EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN BOUNDARY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

Cortland F. Eble, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Aleksandra Trzepierczynska, Polish Geological Institute, Sosnowiec, N/A and Albin Zdanowski, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Hermann Pfefferkorn, Unviversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

115825 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

MACROFLORAL EVIDENCE FOR AN UNCONFORMITY AT THE MID-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN BASIN

Bascombe M. Blake, West Virginia Geological Survey, Morgantown, WV

115415 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

THE PERMIAN STABLE ISOTOPE RECORD FROM ICE-PROXIMAL LOCALITIES IN EASTERN AUSTRALIA: A PROXY FOR LATE PALEOZOIC CLIMATE CHANGE

Lauren P. Birgenheier, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Tracy D. Frank, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Christopher R. Fielding, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Michael C. Rygel, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

111280 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

NEAR-FIELD STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC GONDWANAN ICE AGE FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA DISCLOSES MULTIPLE, ALTERNATING GLACIAL AND NON-GLACIAL INTERVALS

Christopher R. Fielding, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Michael C. Rygel, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY and Tracy D. Frank, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Lauren P. Birgenheier, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Andrew T. Jones, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, N/A and John Roberts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, N/A

111290 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

LOWER PERMIAN POST-GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN THE SOUTHERN BRAZILIAN PARANÁ BASIN: AN OVERVIEW OF STRATIGRAPHIC AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS

Roberto Iannuzzi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A and Paulo Alves Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A and Michael Holz, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A

112776 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

BROAD PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS ACROSS NORTHERN PANGEA THROUGH THE PERMIAN

David Sunderlin, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

110516 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

NEAR-FIELD STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC GONDWANAN ICE AGE FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING FAR-FIELD STABLE ISOTOPE RECORDS

Tracy D. Frank, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Lauren P. Birgenheier, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Christopher R. Fielding, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Michael C. Rygel, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

111406 (Technical Sessions)

11:45 AM

IMPACT OF ICE HOUSE CLIMATE ON TROPICAL VEGETATION AND PLANT EVOLUTION

Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Unviversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Vitaly F. Shulga, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev-54, N/A and Robert Gastaldo, Colby College Dept Geology, Waterville, ME and Adam Kotas, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Anna Kotasowa, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Teresa Migier, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Aleksandra Trzepierczynska, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Albin Zdanowski, Polish Geological Survey, Sosnowiec, N/A and Eva Purkynova, Silesian Museum, Opava, N/A and Zbynek Simunek, Czech Geological Survey, Praha 1, N/A

114459 (Technical Sessions)

T127 “Ice House” / “Hothouse” – An Analysis of Late Paleozoic Floras and Their Response to Global Climate Change

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