T132 Geologic Timescale—Current Status, Future Enhancement, and Applications

Monday, 5 November 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
203A

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  GSSPS AND HIGH PRECISION TIMESCALES
  Alan G. Smith, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A
  208872 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGE TO THE GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE – DOES THE INCREASED DURATION OF THE QUATERNARY PERIOD AFFECT THE GEOSCIENCES?
  Randall Orndorff, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  207421 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  IMPROVING THE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
  Felix M. Gradstein, Univ of Oslo, Oslo
  204685 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  CURRENT AND FUTURE RADIOISOTOPIC CALIBRATION OF THE GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
  Mark Schmitz, Boise State University, Boise, ID
  209168 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  HIGH RESOLUTION CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE TERRESTRIAL K/P BOUNDARY IN NORTHEASTERN MONTANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY
  Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, Berkeley, CA and William S. Mitchell, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Alan L. Deino, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA and Roland Mundil, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, Berkeley, CA and Courtney J. Sprain, University of California, Berkeley, CA and Klaudia Kuiper, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  210663 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME AND TIME SCALES IN SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: APPLICATION OF A CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC DESIGNATION SYSTEM FOR PHANEROZOIC DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES
  John Snedden, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Chengjie Liu, ExxonMobil Exploration Co, Houston, TX and Hilary Clement Olson, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  206119 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  NAILS, JACKS AND CLAMPS: MECHANICAL ANALOGS AS A WAY TO THINK ABOUT ORGANIZING VAST AND VARIED STRATIGRAPHIC INFORMATION SETS FOR COMPUTER ALGORITHMS THAT OPTIMIZE TIME LINES AND CALIBRATE TIME SCALES
  P.M. Sadler, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  208955 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  HIGH FIDELITY: THE DEEP TIME EARTH HISTORY REVOLUTION
  Bradley D. Cramer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke, Universite Lille 1, Lille, N/A
  210007 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  A CRETACEOUS CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATABASE: CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATIONS
  Robert W. Scott, Precision Stratigraphy Associates & The University of Tulsa, Cleveland, OK
  206254 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  TESTING THE QUALITY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD THROUGH GEOLOGICAL TIME
  Alexander M. Dunhill, University of Bristol, Bristol
  207378 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  TESTING THE MOLECULAR CLOCK USING SIMULATED TREES, FOSSIL, AND MOLECULAR DATA
  Rachel C. M. Warnock, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A and Philip C.J. Donoghue, University of Bristol, Bristol
  210302 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  MOLECULAR CLOCKS AND TECTONIC BLOCKS
  Kenneth De Baets, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A and Philip C.J. Donoghue, University of Bristol, Bristol
  210333 (Technical Sessions)