Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

PHYSICAL AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONSTRAINTS ON CARBONATE CRUST FORMATION AT COLD VENT SITES: SIGNIFICANCE FOR FLUID AND METHANE BUDGETS

Roger Luff, GEOMAR Rsch Ctr, Kiel, N/A and Klaus Wallmann, GEOMAR Rsch Ctr, Kiel, N/A

63698 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PATTERNS OF ANCIENT METHANE SEEPS

Ashley Prow-Fleischer and Volker Thiel, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, N/A and Jonathan Payne and Zunli Lu and Jood Al Aswad and Pulkit Singh and Pedro Monarrez

59656 (Technical Sessions)

8:35 AM

STABLE ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE THAT BARITE DEPOSITS IN THE WESTERN BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA MARK THE SITES OF MISSISSIPPIAN METHANE SEEPS

Craig A. Johnson, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Karen D. Kelley, USGS, Denver, CO and David Leach, Denver, CO

65518 (Technical Sessions)

8:50 AM

ANARHYNCHIA (JURASSIC BRACHIOPODA) IN A POSSIBLE SEEP DEPOSIT FROM BEDFORD CANYON, CALIFORNIA, USA

Michael R. Sandy, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Kathleen A. Campbell, Univ of Auckland, Auckland, N/A

62149 (Technical Sessions)

9:05 AM

ANALYSIS OF A NEW MESOZOIC COLD-SEEP LOCALITY, GREAT VALLEY GROUP, GUENOC RANCH, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Kristin Hepper, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA and Jim Richmond, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA and Kathleen Campbell, The University of Auckland, Auckland, N/A and Lisa White, San Francisco State Univ, San Francisco, CA

62522 (Technical Sessions)

9:20 AM

MICROBIAL FOSSIL RECORD FROM THE TEPEE BUTTES (UPPER CRETACEOUS, COLORADO)

Russell S. Shapiro, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN and Henry Fricke, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

65417 (Technical Sessions)

9:35 AM

RECONSTRUCTION OF PALEO-SEEP ECOSYSTEM IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS FORE-ARC BASIN OF NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC USING CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO AND MOLECULAR MARKERS

Robert Gwyn Jenkins, Univ of Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A and Yoshinori Hikida, Nakagawa Ecomuseum Ctr, Hokkaido, N/A and Shigenori Ogihara, Univ of Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A and Kazushige Tanabe, Univ of Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A

64732 (Technical Sessions)

9:50 AM

EARLY PALEOCENE COLD SEEP DEPOSITS, WESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CA: I. FLUID SOURCE AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM

Kevin D. Weberling, Houston, TX and J. Casey Moore, Univ California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

64401 (Technical Sessions)

10:20 AM

EARLY PALEOCENE COLD SEEP DEPOSITS, WESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CA: II. AUTHIGENIC CARBONATES AND TUBE WORM-DOMINATED CHEMOSYNTHETIC ECOSYSTEMS

Hilde Schwartz, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Daniel Minisini, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, N/A and James Sample, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ

64159 (Technical Sessions)

10:35 AM

POSSIBLE SEEP CARBONATES AS SUBSTRATES FOR EARLY OLIGOCENE CORAL AND CRINOID PALEOCOMMUNITIES, NORTHWESTERN OREGON

Casey Burns, Burke Memorial Museum, Seattle, WA and Kathy Campbell, Univ of Auckland, Auckland, N/A and Rich Mooi, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

62398 (Technical Sessions)

10:50 AM

LOWER MIOCENE COLD-SEEPAGE CARBONATES AND BIOTA ASSOCIATED WITH TURBIDITES OF THE NUMIDIAN FLYSCH (APENNINIC-MAGHREBIAN OROGEN, CENTRAL SICILY)

Gian Battista Vai, Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, N/A and Roberto Barbieri, Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, N/A and Marco Taviani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, N/A

65029 (Technical Sessions)

11:05 AM

UNUSUAL MICROBIAL-DERIVED STRUCTURES IN TERTIARY COLD SEEP CARBONATES FROM NORTHERN APENNINE, ITALY

Roberto Barbieri, Univ of Bologna, Bologna, N/A and Barbara Cavalazzi, Univ of Bologna, Bologna, N/A

59898 (Technical Sessions)

11:20 AM

FLUID FLOW AND TECTONICS IN AN ACTIVE TRANSFORM CONTINENTAL MARGIN: THE MONTEREY BAY REGION, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

Ivano Walter Aiello, California State Univ, Moss Landing, CA

64909 (Technical Sessions)

11:35 AM

PLIOCENE CHEMOHERM FORMATION WITHIN DEEP-SEA REDUCING ENVIRONMENTS, ITALIAN NORTHERN APENNINES

Marco Taviani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, N/A and Marco Roveri, Università di Parma, Parma, N/A and Paul Aharon, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

65235 (Technical Sessions)

T144 Biogeochemical Processes at Ancient and Modern Methane Seeps II

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