2 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Caribbean Stratigraphy and Paleontology

Wednesday, 20 March 2013
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Flamboyan Room

Presentations

• 8:10 AM
  UNRAVELING CARIBBEAN GEOLOGY AND LINKING TROPICAL EVENTS TO REGIONAL AND GLOBAL CLIMATE AND BIODIVERSITY ISSUES
  Claudia Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  216229 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  CARBON ISOTOPE (δ13C) STRATIGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE MID-CRETACEOUS HATILLO LIMESTONE IN THE SEIBO TECTONIC TERRANE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  Alvin J. Bonilla-Rodríguez, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Luis A. Gonzalez, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, Howard University, N/A and Hernán Santos, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR and Wilson Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Mayaguez, PR
  215405 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:50 AM
  TECTONITE FABRICS, STRAIN AND KINEMATICS IN THE CRETACEOUS METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF ST. CROIX USVI
  Grenville Draper, Florida International University, Miami, N/A
  215783 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  SHALLOW STRATIGRAPHIC WELLS SOLVING DEEP GEOLOGICAL ISSUES: A CASE IN THE NORTHERN RANCHERIA BASIN OF COLOMBIA
  Camilo Montes, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, N/A and Germán Bayona, Corporación Geológica ARES, Bogotá and Agustin Cardona, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin and Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Panamá and Paola Catalina Montaño, Corporación Geológica ARES, Bogotá, N/A and Omar Montenegro, Corporación Geológica ARES, Bogotá, N/A and Hernando Mahecha, Corporación Geológica ARES, Bogotá, N/A and Giovanny Nova, Corporación Geológica ARES, Bogotá, N/A
  216394 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  BIOTIC CHANGE IN THE TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC AND CARIBBEAN DURING THE NEOGENE – THE EVOLUTION OF WOODRING'S "TERTIARY CARIBBEAN PROVINCE"
  Austin J.W. Hendy, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
  216613 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  THE USE OF DIAGNOSTIC CORALS AND FORAMINIFERA TO RECONSTRUCT THE DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE MIOCENE TO PLIOCENE MONA REEF COMPLEX, PUERTO RICO
  Alejandra M. Rodriguez Delgado, Houston, TX and Wilson Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Mayaguez, PR and Luis A. Gonzalez, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  216439 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  INFESTATION OF HARDGROUNDS, ROUND HILL, CLARENDON
  Donovan J. Blissett, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, N/A and Sherene James-Williamson, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, N/A and Simon F. Mitchell, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston
  215993 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  OLIGOCENE VERTEBRATE FAUNAS FROM PUERTO RICO
  Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
  216619 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  STRATIGRAPHIC VARIATIONS IN GEOCHEMISTY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY OF FOSSIL BIOAPATITE IN CARBONATE PALEOENVIRONMENTS
  Doreena Patrick, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway, NJ
  215141 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  DISPERSAL AND EVOLUTION OF THE CUBAN CROCODILE (CROCODYLIDAE: CROCODYLIFORMES) IN THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN USING BIOGEOGRAPHY AND BONE COLLAGEN STABLE ISOTOPES
  Alexander Hastings, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA and Nancy Albury, The National Museum of The Bahamas, Marsh Harbour, N/A
  215154 (Theme Sessions)