26 Black Shales—Old Problems, New Solutions I

Thursday, 4 April 2002
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  APPROXIMATING ABSOLUTE DEPTHS FOR DEVONIAIN-MISSISSIPPIAN BLACK SHALES IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN BASIN, EASTERN UNITED STATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR EUSTATIC VS. TECTONIC CONTROL OF SEA LEVEL
  Frank R. Ettensohn, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  32694 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:20 AM
  ANATOMY OF AN EROSIVE FLOODING SURFACE: REGIONAL ASPECTS OF THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN LEICESTER PYRITE MEMBER IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN BASIN
  Gordon C. Baird, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY and Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  32274 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  INFLUENCE OF MATURITY AND ORGANIC MATTER TYPES ON HYDROGEN EXCHANGEABILITY AND CARBON AND HYDROGEN ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES: EXAMPLE FROM THE NEW ALBANY SHALE
  Grzegorz Lis, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Ulrike Werner-Zwanziger, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Arndt Schimmelmann, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Maria Mastalerz, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  32409 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  BIOMARKER EVIDENCE FOR PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA DURING DEVONIAN BLACK SHALE DEPOSITION ON NORTH AMERICA
  Todd C. Brown, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and Fabien Kenig, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  32586 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  SMALL-SCALE VARIATIONS IN BLACK SHALE SEQUENCES OF INDIANA
  Nelson R. Shaffer, Bloomington, IN
  32312 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  PYRITE FRAMBOID SIZE AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN MARINE BLACK SHALES: A CASE STUDY FROM THE DEVONIAN-MISSISSIPPIAN OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  Sarah Hawkins, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Susan M. Rimmer, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  33092 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  REVISITING DEGREE OF PYRITIZATION AS A PALEOREDOX PROXY
  Timothy W. Lyons, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  32475 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE FOR BLACK SHALE TYPES: JUSTIFICATION FROM GEOCHEMISTRY AND DIAGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS
  Richard B. Schultz, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
  30132 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  VARIABLE REDOX SIGNALS RECORDED BY RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS IN CARBONIFEROUS PHOSPHATIC BLACK SHALE FROM KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, AND ARKANSAS AND THE INFLUENCE OF AUTHIGENIC PHOSPHATE ON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS
  David L. Kidder, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and Rama Krishnaswamy, The George Washington Univ, Washington, DC and Royal H. Mapes, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH
  29873 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:20 AM
  A NEW APPROACH TO THE SULFUR ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF SHALES
  Michael J. Formolo, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, MO and Timothy W. Lyons, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, MO and Anne M. Gellatly, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  32424 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:40 AM
  ORGANIC-RICH SILTSTONES IN THE PERMIAN BRUSHY CANYON FORMATION, WEST TEXAS: DOES GRAIN SIZE MATTER?
  R. Locklair, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL and B. Sageman, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL
  32969 (THEME SESSIONS)