20 Terrestrial Carbonate Systems: Travertines, Lakes, Soils and Caves

Thursday, 10 May 2012
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Alvarado C

Presentations

• 8:30 AM
  SPELEOGENETIC EFFECTS OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN CARBONATE SYSTEMS
  Penelope J. Boston, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM and Michael N. Spilde, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Diana Northup, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Leslie A. Melim, Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL and Laura Rosales-lagarde, New Mexico Technological Institute, Socorro, NM
  203740 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  BACTERIAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF POOL FINGERS IN CARBONATE CAVE POOLS
  Diana Northup, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Kaitlyn J. Hughes, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Michael N. Spilde, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Leslie A. Melim, Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL and Penelope J. Boston, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM and Ara Kooser, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Laura Crossey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  203752 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  GEOCHEMISTRY OF CAVE POOLS IN THE CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, NM: IMPLICATIONS FOR GEOMICROBIOLGY
  Ara Kooser, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Laura J. Crossey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Kaitlyn J. Hughes, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Diana Northup, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Michael N. Spilde, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Leslie A. Melim, Western Illinois Univ, Macomb, IL and Penelope J. Boston, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM
  203751 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  MINERALOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF THE WORLD'S LONGEST SPELEOTHEM, SNOWY RIVER PASSAGE, FORT STANTON CAVE, NEW MEXICO
  Michael N. Spilde, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Ara Kooser, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Steve Peerman, Fort Stanton Cave Study Project, Capitan, NM and Penelope J. Boston, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM
  203475 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  STRONTIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN PALEOSOL CARBONATES: A POSSIBLE RECORD OF HYDROLOGIC CHANGE IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, DURING EARLY EOCENE HYPERTHERMALS
  David Conwell, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  203771 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  EXTENDING THE ESTANCIA BASIN PALEOCLIMATE RECORD BACK WITH U-SERIES DATING OF GYPSUM SAND LAYERS
  Victor J. Polyak, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Roger Y. Anderson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Bruce D. Allen, New Mexico Tech, Albuquerque, NM
  203655 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  NORTHERN HEMISPHERE PENULTIMATE GLACIAL MAXIMUM AND TERMINATION FROM SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES SPELEOTHEM RECORDS
  Zachary C. LaPointe, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Victor J. Polyak, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Matthew Lachniet, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
  203668 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  RECONSTRUCTING QUATERNARY PLUVIAL EPISODES USING TRAVERTINES OF EGYPT'S WESTERN DESERT
  Gloria Jimenez, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Laura J. Crossey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Jason W. Ricketts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and April Jean Tafoya, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Tarek Anan, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI and Abdelmawgoud Mohammed, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
  203679 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  URANIUM-SERIES DATING OF TRAVERTINE FROM SODA DAM, NEW MEXICO: CONSTRUCTING A HISTORY OF DEPOSITION, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION, PALEOHYDROLOGY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
  April Jean Tafoya, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Laura J. Crossey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Victor J. Polyak, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Chris Cox, Albuquerque, N/A
  203451 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  LARGE-VOLUME QUATERNARY TRAVERTINE DEPOSITS IN THE RIO GRANDE RIFT AND JEMEZ LINEAMENT, NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOCLIMATE, LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION, AND NEOTECTONICS
  Alexandra Priewisch, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Laura J. Crossey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Eileen H. Embid, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Victor J. Polyak, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Yemane Asmerom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Jason W. Ricketts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Alexander Nereson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  203582 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  THE ROCK SPRINGS UPLIFT, WYOMING: AN OUTSTANDING GEOLOGICAL CO2 STORAGE SITE
  Ronald Surdam, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Zunsheng Jiao, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Yuri Ganshin, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Ramsey Bentley, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Scott Quillinan, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and J. Fred Mclaughlin, School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Mario Garcia-Gonzalez, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Philip H. Stauffer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Hailin Deng, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  203215 (Theme Sessions)