Geological Society of America

8:15 AM

EARLY CARBONIFEROUS (MISSISSIPPIAN) CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTHERN EURAMERICA

C. Blaine Cecil, USGS National Center (emeritus), Reston, VA and David K. Brezinski, Baltimore, MD

228757 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

TRANSITION FROM COLD CLIMATE ENDEMIC FAUNAS AND GLACIATION TO GLACIATION-PROXY CARBONATES (DEVONIAN-PERMIAN), CENTRAL ANDES

Peter E. Isaacson, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Mercedes M. diPasquo, CICYTTP-CONICET, Diamante, N/A and George W. Grader, PRISEM Geoscience Consulting, Spokane, WA and E. Díaz-Martínez, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Madrid, N/A and Heidi Anderson, University of Montana Western, Dillon, MT

227653 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

NEW INSIGHTS INTO FAR-FIELD RESPONSE TO THE ONSET OF LATE PALEOZOIC GLACIATION: DATA FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN SUCCESSION OF EAST FIFE, SCOTLAND

Christopher R. Fielding, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Tracy D. Frank, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

230917 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

THE BASHKIRIAN GLACIATION OF THE SAN RAFAEL BASIN AND OTHER DIACHRONOUS GLACIAL EVENTS ACROSS WESTERN ARGENTINA

Lindsey C. Henry, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL and John Isbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Carlos Limarino, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, N/A

222609 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS THE ATOKAN-DESMOINESIAN TRANSITION (MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN) IN EQUATORIAL EURAMERICA

William DiMichele, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and C. Blaine Cecil, USGS National Center (emeritus), Reston, VA and Scott Elrick, Prairie Research Institution, Champaign, IL and W. John Nelson, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL and Cortland F. Eble, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Arden R. Bashforth, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

229723 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

MIDDLE DESMOINESIAN TIDAL CHANNEL LOG JAMS AND ROOF FLORA INDICATE COAL SWAMP-TERMINAL VEGETATION DOMINATED BY SIGILLARIA, TREE AND SEED FERNS – A MISSOURIAN ASSEMBLAGE

Scott Elrick, Prairie Research Institution, Champaign, IL and William A. DiMichele, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and W. John Nelson, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL and Philip R. Ames, Peabody Energy, St. Louis, MO

230396 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF LATE PALEOZOIC HIGH-LATITUDE, GLACIOGENIC DEPOSITS IN THE TEPUEL BASIN, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA

Kathryn N. Pauls, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Margaret L. Fraiser, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and John L. Isbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and M. Alejandra Pagani, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Trelew and Arturo C. Taboada, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia, Esquel

225920 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

FLUVIAL SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE EARLY PERMIAN CLEAR FORK GROUP OF NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOCLIMATE OF EQUATORIAL PANGEA

Sharane S.T. Simon, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and Martin Gibling, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

228652 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

EVOLVING LOWER PERMIAN SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURES OF THE EASTERN SHELF, MIDLAND BASIN: DEMISE OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC ICEHOUSE AND IMPACT ON PALEOEQUATORIAL DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS

Peter F. Holterhoff, Hess Corporation, Houston, TX

222693 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

FLUVIAL STYLE AND VEGETATION ABUNDANCE AS A PALEOCLIMATE PROXY IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN AND EARLY PERMIAN: AN EVALUATION OF PRESERVATIONAL ISSUES

Martin R. Gibling, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and Neil S. Davies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and Alessandro Ielpi, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON and Sharane S.T. Simon, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and Arden R. Bashforth, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Michael Rygel, State University of New York, College at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

231075 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

REEVALUATION OF PERMIAN GLACIATION IN SIBERIA DURING THE LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE: PRELIMINARY ANALYSES ON THE ORIGIN OF CAPITANIAN DIAMICTITES IN THE ATKAN FORMATION, OKHOTSK REGION, RUSSIA

John Isbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Alexander S. Biakov, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, N/A and Igor L. Vedernikov, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, N/A and Vladimir I. Davydov, Boise State University, Boise, ID and Erik L. Gulbranson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Nicholas D. Fedorchuk, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Evgeny V. Kolesov, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, N/A and Yury Yu Ivanov, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, N/A

224510 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

THE CASE FOR UPLAND ICE IN LOW-LATITUDE LATE PALEOZOIC PANGAEA

Gerilyn S. Soreghan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and D.E. Sweet, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

226811 (Technical Sessions)

T120 Climate of the Late Paleozoic—Earth's Last Icehouse and Icehouse Collapse I

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