Session: Applied Micropaleontology: Tools and Techniques for the 21st Century

Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 310CF

Presiding:

Brian J. O'Neill , Alicia C.M. Kahn , Jere H. Lipps and Andrew Bowman

8:00 AM

8:05 AM

Petrography and Biostratigraphy of #101 Las Cañas and Mesita #1 cores, Golden Lane/Poza Rica Trend, Mexico
Paul R. Krutak, P. Krutak Geoservices Intl

8:20 AM

806-2

Utilizing Abundance Changes of New and Non-Standard Calcareous Nannofossil Taxa to Increase Biostratigraphic Resolution in Expanded Continental Margin Deposits: Examples from the Middle and Lower Miocene of the Gulf of Mexico
Richard A. Denne, Applied Biostratigraphix

8:35 AM

806-3

Comparison of Two Planktonic:Benthonic (P:B) Curves from the Yazoo Clay (Eocene; Priabonian) of Mississippi
Richard H. Fluegeman, Ball State University; Aneesha Balakrishnan, Ball State University; Christopher J. Banser, Ball State University; Kelli A. McGuire, Ball State University; Nicholas S. Tiedemann, Ball State University; Davina M. Wolfe, Ball State University; Michelle A. Crume, Ball State University; Daniel C. Thurber, Ball State University; Bradley A. Funk, Ball State University

8:50 AM

806-4

Kerogen and Palynomorph Analyses of the Mid-Cretaceous Bahariya Formation and Abu Roash “G” Member, North Western Desert, Egypt
Mohamed Zobaa, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Carlos Sanchez Botero, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Cassandra Browne, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Francisca E. Oboh-Ikuenobe, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Mohamed I. Ibrahim, Alexandria University

9:05 AM

806-5

Permian Radiolarian Faunal Variations Correlated to Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes in the Lamar Limestone, Delaware Basin, West Texas: Implications for Radiolarian Paleoecology
Yuxi Jin, University of Nevada, Reno; Paula J. Noble, University of Nevada, Reno; Simon R. Poulson, University of Nevada, Reno

9:20 AM

806-6

Middle Miocene Biostratigraphy of the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica: The First Diatom Perspective from the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project
Eva Tuzzi, University of Nebrska-Lincoln; Matthew Olney, University of South Florida; Christina Riesselman, Stanford University; David M. Harwood, University of Nebrska-Lincoln

9:35 AM

Break

10:00 AM

806-7

High Planktonic Foraminiferal Species Turnover, Enhanced Vertical Ocean Mixing and “Coolhouse” Climatic Conditions across the Aptian-Albian Boundary Interval
Brian T. Huber, Smithsonian Institution; R. Mark Leckie, University of Massachusetts; Kenneth G. MacLeod, University of Missouri

10:15 AM

806-8

From Martyrdom to Resurrection for St. Lucie: Revival of a Meiofauna
Sreepat Jain, Smithsonian Institution; Lee-Ann C. Hayek, Smithsonian Institution; Martin A. Buzas, Smithsonian Institution

10:30 AM

806-9

The Last Global Extinction In the Deep Sea
Bruce W. Hayward, Geomarine Research; Shungo Kawagata, Yokohama National University; Hugh R. Grenfell, Geomarine Research; Ashwaq T. Sabaa, Geomarine Research; Tanya O'Neill, Massey University

10:45 AM

806-10

Biogeographic Comparisons of Neogene Benthic Foraminifera of Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador
Carly J. Smith, Florida International University; Laurel S. Collins, Florida International University; Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Luis I. Quiroz, University of Saskatchewan

11:00 AM

806-11

Paleo-Hazard recognition in coastal settings—microfossil determinations of the history and precursors of major catastrophic events
David B. Scott, Dalhousie Univ; Jere H. Lipps, University of California

11:15 AM

806-12

An Experimental Approach to Understanding the Response of Benthic Foraminifera to Cd, Hg, Pb and Zn
Ellen R. Brouillette; Susan T. Goldstein

11:30 AM

Concluding Remarks

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806 GC2. Applied Micropaleontology: Tools and Techniques for the 21st Century(Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research; Paleontological Society; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies; Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); Paleontological Research Institute)

806 GC2. Applied Micropaleontology: Tools and Techniques for the 21st Century
(Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research; Paleontological Society; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies; Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); Paleontological Research Institute)