T164 Ancient Polar Ecosystems and Environments: Proxies for Understanding Climate Change and Global Warming

Sunday, 5 October 2008
1:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  A Possible Reincised Eocene Paleovalley and New Formation near Brooks Camp, Naknek Lake, Alaska
  Judith Parrish, Univ of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Anthony R. Fiorillo, Dallas, TX and Bonnie F. Jacobs, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
  148202 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  Stable Isotope Proxies for Polar Paleoprecipitation in Ancient Greenhouse Worlds
  Greg A. Ludvigson, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Luis A. González, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Mark Pagani, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  148685 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  Stable Isotope Studies of Vertebrate Fossils from Polar Localities: Paleoclimatic and Paleoecological Insights and Parallels Between Late Cretaceous and Eocene Time Periods
  Henry Fricke, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  149269 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  Tidally Influenced, High Latitude, Alluvial-Deltaic Deposits of the Dinosaur-Bearing Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation: North Slope, Alaska
  Peter P. Flaig, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Paul J. McCarthy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Anthony R. Fiorillo, Dallas, TX
  146863 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  Sedimentologic and Taphonomic Interpretations of the Dinosaur-Bearing Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska: Insights from An Ancient High-Latitude Terrestrial Ecosystem
  Anthony R. Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX and Paul J. McCarthy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
  148162 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  A Preliminary Analysis of Phytodebris Assemblages from the Liscomb Bone Bed Area, Prince Creek Formation, North Slope, Alaska
  J.M. Tapp, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and G.R. Upchurch, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX and S.J. Fowell, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Paul McCarthy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Anthony Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX
  150164 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  Toward a Basin-Scale Paleofloral Analysis of the Late Cretaceous Cantwell Formation In Denali National Park, Alaska: Tying Facies Analysis to Plant Fossil Occurrence
  David Sunderlin, Lafayette College, Easton, PA and Eric S. Ricci, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
  144634 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Paleoenvironments from the Lower Cantwell Formation at Sable Mountain , Denali National Park , Alaska
  Carla Susanne Tomsich, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK and Paul J. McCarthy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK and Sarah J. Fowell, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Anthony R. Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX and David Sunderlin, Lafayette College, Easton, PA and Stephen Hasiotis, Univ KansasDept Geology, 116 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS
  150586 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  Early to Late Cenozoic Changes in North American High-Latitude Lowland-Forest Biomass
  Christopher J. Williams, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
  148708 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  Palynomorphs Recovered from the ANDRILL SMS Sediment Cores Provide First Proximal Environmental Characterization of the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum
  Sophie Warny, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Rosemary Askin, Consultant, Jackson, WY and J. Ian Raine, Lower Hutt, N/A and Mike Hannah, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, N/A and Barbara Mohr, Museum H.U, Berlin, N/A and SMS Science Team Andrill, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
  150401 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Fresh and Warm Arctic Ocean Surface Waters during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2
  Appy Sluijs, Utrecht University, Utrecht and Stefan Schouten, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, N/A and Ursula Roehl, Bremen University, Bremen and Gert-Jan Reichart, Utrecht University, Utrecht and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, N/A and Francesca Sangiorgi, Utrecht University, Utrecht, N/A and Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Mark Pagani, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Henk Brinkhuis, Utrecht University, Utrecht, N/A
  149554 (Technical Sessions)