Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 351BE

Presiding:

Neil Tibert and Bosiljka Glumac

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:15 AM

183-1

Temperature and Salinity Tolerance of Modern and Holocene Acropora Cervicornis from Barbados and the Dominican Republic

Lisa Greer, Washington and Lee University; H. Allen Curran, Smith College; Carol B. de Wet, Franklin and Marshall College; Lida T. Teneva, Columbia University; Elizabeth Rhea, Washington and Lee University

8:30 AM

183-2

Bioerosion of the Pleistocene Key Largo Limestone In the Florida Keys

Michelle L. Mary, University of Utah; Allan A. Ekdale, University of Utah

8:45 AM

183-3

Coral Reef Ed-Ventures: An Environmental Education Program for Children in San Pedro, Belize

Susan Etheredge, Smith College; Paulette Peckol, Smith College; H. Allen Curran, Smith College

9:00 AM

183-4

Taphonomy and ages of bivalve shells from San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Sara B. Pruss, Smith College

9:15 AM

183-5

Evolution of a Holocene Reef-Lagoon System: St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College; Ashley Burkett, Muskingum College; Sarah Chamlee, University of the South; Matthew Klinman, Haverford College; Caitlin Tems, Colorado College; Dennis Hubbard, Oberlin College

9:30 AM

183-6

The use of plant trace fossils to differentiate transgressive-phase from regressive-phase Quaternary eolian calcarenites, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

Andrew N. Birmingham, Mississippi State University; James L. Carew, College of Charleston; John E. Mylroie, Mississippi State University

9:45 AM

183-7

North Atlantic Climate Variability Over the Holocene: Preliminary Analysis of Bermuda Historical Weather Data and Stable Isotope Time Series from Bermuda Stalagmites

Steven E. Gaurin, University of Massachusetts; Stephen J. Burns, Univ of Massachusetts Amherst; Hai Cheng, Univ. of Minnesota; Lawrence Edwards, Univ of Minnesota

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

183-8

The first macroborings known from quartzite substrates: Trypanites in boulders from the Upper Cambrian Deadwood Formation, Black Hills of South Dakota

Mark A. Wilson, College of Wooster; Markes E. Johnson, Williams College; Jack A. Redden, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

10:30 AM

183-9

The First Animals on Land: Al Curran(t) State of Knowledge

James W. Hagadorn, Amherst College

10:45 AM

183-10

New Insights into Autecology of the Ordovician Strophomenid Brachiopod Rafinesquina from Ichnology, Epibionts, and Biomechanics

Benjamin F. Dattilo, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne; David L. Meyer, Univ of Cincinnati; Keith Dewing, Geol Survey of Canada

11:00 AM

183-11

Potential Evolutionary Significance of Meniscate Trace Fossils (Beaconites/Taenidium), from the Lowville Limestone (Upper Ordovician), Mohawk Valley, New York

Jennifer R. Tegan; Warren D. Allmon, Paleontological Research Institution

11:15 AM

183-12

Enigmatic Trace Fossils and Depositional Setting of the Clifty Formation (Devonian), Northwest Arkansas

Stephen K. Boss, Univ of Arkansas; Joshua M. Blackstock, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

11:30 AM

183-13

Tracing the Meter- to Kilometer-Scale Carbonate Seafloor Topography Following the Alamo Impact Event, Late Devonian, Nevada

Julia Anderson, Minnesota Geological Survey; Leif Tapanila, Idaho State University

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