T195 The Hunt for Precambrian Life: An Integrated Approach (Posters)

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  THE HUNT FOR EARLY EUKARYOTES IN ARCHEAN AND PROTEROZOIC OCEANS
  Emmanuelle J. Javaux, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Craig P. Marshall, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ, Sydney, N/A and Malcolm R. Walter, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ, Sydney, N/A
  57490 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  IDENTIFICATION OF FENESTRATE MICROBIALITES FROM THE NEOARCHEAN CARAWINE FORMATION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  Megan A. Murphy, Univ of California, Davis, CA and Dawn Y. Sumner, Univ of California - Davis, Davis, CA
  57863 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  GEOCHEMISTRY OF MOLAR TOOTH STRUCTURE MICROSPAR FROM THE NEOARCHEAN MONTEVILLE FORMATION, SOUTH AFRICA
  James W. Bishop, Univ of California at Davis, Davis, CA and Dawn Sumner, Univ of California at Davis, Davis, CA
  58009 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DETERMINING THE BIOGENICITY OF RESIDUAL CARBON WITHIN THE APEX CHERT
  Thomas G. Sharp, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Bradley T. De Gregorio, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ
  58553 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MICROBIALLY INDUCED SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES – A NEW WINDOW FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE AND LIFE CONDITIONS IN THE PRECAMBRIAN
  Nora Noffke, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA
  60451 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PALEOSOL EVIDENCE FOR THE PHOSPHORUS BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE IN THE PRECAMBRIAN
  Nathan D. Sheldon, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  60625 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  LOW SULFATE AND ANOXIA IN A MID-PROTEROZOIC MARINE BASIN
  Yanan Shen, Harvard Univ, cambridge, MA and Andrew Knoll, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Malcolm Walter, Macquarie Univ, N/A
  60881 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  STUDY OF THE OLDEST ANIMAL FOSSILS WITH COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY
  Alexandre Tsapin, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  62826 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ENVIRONMENTS OF PREFERENTIAL, ABIOTIC CARBONATE PRECIPITATION IN HOLOCENE STROMATOLITES, A MODEL TO GUIDE THE SEARCH FOR PRECAMBRIAN MICROFOSSILS
  Robert N. Ginsburg, Univ of Miami, Miami, FL
  63902 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  LOSSLESS COMPRESSION AS A COMPLEXITY INDEX IN PALEOGEOBIOLOGY: ICHNOFABRICS AND STROMATOLITES AS TWO EXAMPLES
  Michael C. Storrie-Lombardi, Kinohi Institute, Pasadena, CA and Frank A. Corsetti, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  64548 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PRESERVATION OF BIOORGANIC MOLECULES IN AMORPHOUS SILICA IN NATURE
  Randall Stewart Perry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Vera M. Kolb, Univ of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
  64588 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR BIOALTERATION IN PILLOW LAVAS OF PRECAMBRIAN OPHIOLITES
  H. Furnes, University of Bergen, Bergen, N/A and N.R. Banerjee, University of Bergen, Bergen, N/A and K. Muehlenbachs, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and H. Staudigel, University of California, La Jolla, CA and M. de Wit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, N/A and A. Kontinen, Geological Survey of Finland, Kuopio, N/A
  65528 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DIVERSITY OF ANIMAL LIFE IN THE DOUSHANTUO FORMATION OF SOUTHWEST CHINA
  Paola Oliveri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Feng Gao, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Stephen Q. Dornbos, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Jun-Yuan Chen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A and Chia-Wei Li, National Tsing Hua Univ, Hsinchu, N/A and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Eric H. Davidson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  66600 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PRESERVATION OF NEOPROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO PHOSPHATIZED MICROFOSSILS FROM SOUTHWESTERN CHINA
  Feng Gao, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontolgy, Nanjing, N/A and Stephen Q. Dornbos, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Paola Oliveri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Eric H. Davidson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and C.-W. Li, Tsing Hua Univ, Hsinchu, N/A and J.Y. Chen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontolgy, Nanjing, N/A and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  67211 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  LIPID BIOMARKERS AND THEIR CARBON ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES FOR A HYPERSALINE MICROBIAL MAT COMMUNITY
  Linda L. Jahnke, NASA Ames Rsch Ctr, Moffett Field, CA and Victoria F. Orphan, NASA Ames Rsch Ctr, Moffett Field, CA and Tsegereda Embaye, SETI Institute, Mtn. View, CA and Kendra A. Turk, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Mike Kubo, SETI Institute, Mtn. View, CA and Roger E. Summons, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  67656 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MICROBIAL SIGNATURES IN PRECAMBRIAN STROMATOLITES
  Tanja Bosak, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA and Dianne K. Newman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  67709 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MARINE CHEMISTRY OF THE TERMINAL PROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO FORMATION: ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE PHOSPHATIZED EMBRYOS
  Hiroto Kimura, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Jun-Yuan Chen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A and Stephen Q. Dornbos, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Feng Gao, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Paola Oliveri, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Eric H. Davidson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and John M. Eiler, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  67944 (Technical Sessions)