224.
Special Session: A Life in Earth History from Tectonics to Climate II: The Scientific Legacy of Paul F. Hoffman

Session No.
Sunday, 27 October 2013: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center Mile High Ballroom 4EF

Special Session: A Life in Earth History from Tectonics to Climate II: The Scientific Legacy of Paul F. Hoffman

 
Introductory Remarks
Abstract ID#: 234544
 
WERE CRYOGENIAN LANDSCAPES GREEN? -- AN EMERGENCE-SYNCHRONIZED MARINE CARBONATE 12C ANOMALY IN NAMIBIA FROM SEA TO SHORE
Abstract ID#: 222036
HOFFMAN, Paul F.1, KUNZMANN, Marcus2, MAGUIRE, Thomas J.3, STRAUSS, Justin4, HALVERSON, Galen P.2, and SCHRAG, Daniel P.5, (1) 1216 Montrose Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 2K4, paulfhoffman@gmail.com, (2) Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University St, Montreal, QC H3A0E8, Canada, (3) Earth and Planetary Sciences/GEOTOP, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, Canada, (4) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, (5) Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
 
NEOPROTEROZOIC EARTH HISTORY AS WRITTEN IN NAMIBIA
Abstract ID#: 223487
PRAVE, A.R., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews, Sy Andrews, KY16 9AL, United Kingdom, ap13@st-andrews.ac.uk, HOFFMANN, K-H., Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek, 9000, Namibia, CONDON, Daniel, NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, United Kingdom, and FALLICK, A.E., S.U.E.R.C, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G75 0QF, United Kingdom
 
MICROSCOPIC TEXTURES, MACROSCOPIC SHAPES AND DEPOSITION RATES OF PELOIDAL FACIES IN THE BASAL EDIACARAN CAP DOLOSTONE
Abstract ID#: 226552
BOSAK, Tanja, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, tbosak@MIT.EDU, MARIOTTI, Giulio, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, MACDONALD, Francis A., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, PERRON, J. Taylor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusets Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, and PRUSS, Sara B., Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063
 
EVIDENCE FOR A POST-STURTIAN EUKARYOTIC BIOSPHERE FROM CAP CARBONATES OF NORTHERN NAMIBIA AND ZAMBIA
Abstract ID#: 225363
PRUSS, Sara B.1, BOSAK, Tanja2, MACDONALD, Francis A.3, SAWDY, Maggie1, MOORE, Kelsey1, and LAHR, Daniel J.G.4, (1) Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, spruss@smith.edu, (2) Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, (3) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, (4) Department of Zoology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 05508, Brazil
 
RE-OS GEOCHRONOLOGY AND OS ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC CALLISON LAKE DOLOSTONE: INSIGHTS INTO DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, NEOPROTEROZOIC MICROFOSSILS AND CORRELATION OF CORDILLERAN STRATIGRAPHY
Abstract ID#: 231038
ROONEY, Alan D.1, STRAUSS, Justin V.1, BRANDON, Alan2, and MACDONALD, Francis A.3, (1) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, alan.rooney@fas.harvard.edu, (2) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 312 Science and Research Building 1, Houston, TX 77004, (3) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138
 
PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN ASSESSING PROTEROZOIC EUKARYOTIC DIVERSITY
Abstract ID#: 225715
COHEN, Phoebe, Geosciences, Williams College, 947 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267, Phoebe.A.Cohen@williams.edu
 
Break
Abstract ID#: 234545
 
RECENT ANALOGS FOR SNOWBALL EARTH SEDIMENTS AND STRATIGRAPHY DISCOVERED BENEATH ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES: CHANGING PARADIGMS AND CHALLENGING NAYSAYERS
Abstract ID#: 228911
DOMACK, Eugene W., Department of Geosciences, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Rd, Clinton, NY 13323, edomack@hamilton.edu
 
PROTEROZOIC-PHANEROZOIC CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHERN CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Abstract ID#: 233966
MAGUIRE, Thomas J., Earth and Planetary Sciences/GEOTOP, McGill University, Montreal, QC H2X2X8, Canada, thomas.maguire@mail.mcgill.ca and HALVERSON, Galen P., Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University St, Montreal, QC H3A0E8, Canada
 
THE EFFECT OF SEAWATER REDOX STRATIFICATION ON EARLY METAZOANS FROM THE TERMINAL EDIACARAN KHATYSPYT FORMATION OF ARCTIC SIBERIA
Abstract ID#: 232712
KAUFMAN, Alan J.1, CUI, Huan2, PEEK, Sara1, ROGOV, Vladimir3, GRAZHDANKIN, Dmitri3, and XIAO, Shuhai4, (1) Geology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, kaufman@geol.umd.edu, (2) Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, (3) Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk Branch, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia, (4) Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
 
CAMBRIAN TRANSGRESSION AND 'EXPLOSION' OF METAZOAN LIFE LINKED TO OPENING OF IAPETUS-PACIFIC OCEANIC CONNECTION
Abstract ID#: 226607
DALZIEL, Ian W.D., Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road (R2200), Austin, TX 78758-4445, ian@ig.utexas.edu
 
CARBON AND STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE EARLIEST CAMBRIAN IN CHENGJIANG, SOUTH CHINA: A UNIQUE CONDITION FOR THE SMALL SHELLY ANIMAL DIVERSIFICATION
Abstract ID#: 230464
SATO, Tomohiko, Tokyo Inst. Tech, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan, sato.t.bq@m.titech.ac.jp, ISOZAKI, Yukio, Univ Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan, TAHATA, Miyuki, Dept. Earth & Planet. Sci, Tokyo Inst. Tech, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan, YOSHIDA, Naohiro, Dept. Environment. Sci. & Tech, Tokyo Inst. Tech, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8502, Japan, KANI, Tomomi, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto Univ, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto, 860-8555, Japan, and SHU, Degan, Early Life Inst, Northwest Univ, 229 Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710069, China
 
CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF AN ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN SHALLOW WATER CARBONATE PLATFORM: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF δ13C EXCURSIONS UNDER GLACIOEUSTATIC EXPOSURE SURFACES
Abstract ID#: 230753
JONES, David S., CREEL, Roger C., RIOS, Bernardo Andres, and SANTIAGO RAMOS, Danielle, Geology Department, Amherst College, 11 Barrett Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002, djones@amherst.edu
 
­­­­MICROBIAL SHAPING OF WRINKLE STRUCTURES IN SILICICLASTIC DEPOSITS
Abstract ID#: 228444
MARIOTTI, Giulio1, PERRON, J. Taylor2, PRUSS, Sara B.3, O'GRADY, M.2, and BOSAK, Tanja4, (1) Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, giuliom@mit.edu, (2) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusets Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, (3) Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, (4) Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
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