T184 Reconstructing the Cambrian World: Temporal and Spatial Changes in Physical and Biotic Environments

Tuesday, 29 October 2002
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  CARBON CYCLING PERTURBATION THROUGH THE LOWER-MIDDLE CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL AND OLENELLOID BIOMERE EXTINCTION AS REVEALED BY d13CORG
  Isabel Montanez, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Danielle Nest, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY and Kathyrn Gragg, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Linda McCollum, Eastern Washington Univ, Cheney, WA and Michael McCollum, Eastern Washington Univ, Cheney, WA and David Osleger, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  38896 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  OXYGEN-CONTROLLED BIOFACIES OF THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN WHEELER SHALE AND EQUIVALENTS, EASTERN BASIN AND RANGE
  Robert R. Gaines, Univ California - Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  37756 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  THE HERB EVENT: END OF THE CAMBRIAN CARBON CYCLE PARADIGM?
  Robert L. Ripperdan, Univ of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR
  45823 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  CLIMATE CHANGE, SEA LEVELS, AND EPEIRIC SEA-CONTINENTAL SLOPE OXYGENATION IN THE CAMBRIAN
  Ed Landing, State Education Dept, Albany, NY
  42708 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  RECONSTRUCTING THE CAMBRIAN WORLD THROUGH PALEOMAGNETISM
  Tim D. Raub, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and David Evans, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Joseph L. Kirschvink, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
  46477 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  A METHANE FUSE FOR THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION: CARBON CYCLES AND TRUE POLAR WANDER
  Joseph L. Kirschvink, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA and Timothy D. Raub, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA
  44663 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  EXTINCTION OF CLOUDINA AND NAMACALATHUS AT THE PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY IN OMAN: AN INITIAL CONDITION FOR EARLY CAMBRIAN RADIATION
  John P. Grotzinger, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA and Stefan Schröder, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA and Samuel A. Bowring, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA and Jahandar Ramezani, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA and Joachim E. Amthor, Petroleum Development Oman, N/A and A. Matter, Univ of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, N/A
  46954 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  FOSSIL CONSTRAINTS IN RECONSTRUCTING INDIAN EQUATORIAL PERI-GONDWANALAND DURING THE CAMBRIAN
  Nigel Hughes, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Noel A. Heim, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Paul Myrow, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and S.K. Parcha, Dehra Dun, Uttranchal, N/A
  38235 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  WESTERN GONDWANAN FAUNAS, DIVERSITIES AND FACIES DURING THE CAMBRIAN
  Gerd Geyer, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, N/A
  42745 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  JUST HOW COMPLETE IS THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD AT BIOMERE EXTINCTIONS? AN EXAMPLE FROM THE LOWER-MIDDLE CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY IN LAURENTIA
  Linda B. McCollum, Eastern Washington Univ, Cheney, WA and Frederick A. Sundberg, Eastern Washington Univ, Cheney, WA and Isabel P. Montanez, Univ of California, Davis, CA
  38908 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  GEOCHEMISTRY AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN WHEELER FORMATION: SUPPORT FOR TRILOBITE CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY
  Elizabeth S. Langenburg, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT and W. David Liddell, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT and Carol M. Dehler, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT
  46512 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:05 PM
  FALLEN ARCHES: MYTHS CONCERNING THE CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
  John F. Taylor, Indiana Univ of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA and Paul M. Myrow, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Robert L. Ripperdan, Univ of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR and James F. Miller, Southwest Missouri State Univ, Springfield, MO and Raymond L. Ethington, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO and Joseph L. Allen, Concord College, Athens, WV
  44132 (Technical Sessions)