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164 Ancient Polar Ecosystems and Environments: Proxies for Understanding Climate Change and Global Warming

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Sunday, 5 October 2008: 1:30 PM-4:45 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 330A

Presiding:
Anthony Fiorillo and Paul McCarthy
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:45 PM
164-1
A Possible Reincised Eocene Paleovalley and New Formation near Brooks Camp, Naknek Lake, Alaska
Judith Totman Parrish, Univ of Idaho; Anthony R. Fiorillo; Bonnie F. Jacobs, Southern Methodist University
2:05 PM
164-2
Stable Isotope Proxies for Polar Paleoprecipitation in Ancient Greenhouse Worlds
Greg A. Ludvigson, The University of Kansas; Luis A. González, University of Kansas; Mark Pagani, Yale Univ
2:25 PM
164-3
Stable Isotope Studies of Vertebrate Fossils from Polar Localities: Paleoclimatic and Paleoecological Insights and Parallels Between Late Cretaceous and Eocene Time Periods
Henry Fricke, Colorado College
2:45 PM
164-4
Tidally Influenced, High Latitude, Alluvial-Deltaic Deposits of the Dinosaur-Bearing Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation: North Slope, Alaska
Peter P. Flaig, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Paul McCarthy, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Anthony R. Fiorillo
3:00 PM
164-5
Sedimentologic and Taphonomic Interpretations of the Dinosaur-Bearing Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska: Insights from An Ancient High-Latitude Terrestrial Ecosystem
Anthony R. Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science; Paul McCarthy, University of Alaska
3:15 PM
164-6
A Preliminary Analysis of Phytodebris Assemblages from the Liscomb Bone Bed Area, Prince Creek Formation, North Slope, Alaska
J.M. Tapp II, University of Alaska Fairbanks; G.R. Upchurch Jr, Texas State University; S.J. Fowell, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Paul McCarthy, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Anthony Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science
3:30 PM
164-7
Toward a Basin-Scale Paleofloral Analysis of the Late Cretaceous Cantwell Formation In Denali National Park, Alaska: Tying Facies Analysis to Plant Fossil Occurrence
David Sunderlin, Lafayette College; Eric S. Ricci, Lafayette College
3:45 PM
164-8
Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Paleoenvironments from the Lower Cantwell Formation at Sable Mountain , Denali National Park , Alaska
Carla Susanne Tomsich, University of Alaska; Paul McCarthy, University of Alaska; Sarah J. Fowell, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks; Anthony R. Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science; David Sunderlin, Lafayette College; Stephen T. Hasiotis, University of Kansas
4:00 PM
164-9
Early to Late Cenozoic Changes in North American High-Latitude Lowland-Forest Biomass
Christopher Williams, Franklin and Marshall College
4:15 PM
164-10
Palynomorphs Recovered from the ANDRILL SMS Sediment Cores Provide First Proximal Environmental Characterization of the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum
Sophie Warny, Louisiana State University; Rosemary Askin, Consultant; Ian Raine; Mike Hannah, Victoria University of Wellington; Barbara Mohr, Museum H.U; SMS Science Team Andrill, University of Nebraska
4:30 PM
164-11
Fresh and Warm Arctic Ocean Surface Waters during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2
Appy Sluijs, Utrecht University; Stefan Schouten, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; Ursula Roehl, Bremen University; Gert-Jan Reichart, Utrecht University; Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; Francesca Sangiorgi, Utrecht University; Srinath Krishnan, Yale University; Mark Pagani, Yale University; Henk Brinkhuis, Utrecht University
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