GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

T217. Earth History in the Broadest Context—Tectonics, Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and Big History: Celebrating the Contributions of Walter Alvarez

Session No. 55
Sunday, 25 September 2016: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Mile High Ballroom 3B (Colorado Convention Center)
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALVAREZ K-PG BOUNDARY ASTEROID IMPACT HYPOTHESIS FOR IMPACT CRATERING RESEARCH
Abstract ID#: 286179
KOEBERL, Christian, Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, also of the Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, christian.koeberl@univie.ac.at
TSUNAMIGENIC RECORD OF THE CHICXULUB IMPACT IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION, NORTH AMERICA
Abstract ID#: 284267
DEPALMA II, Robert A., Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, 2805 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33306; Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, SMIT, Jan, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands, BURNHAM, David A., University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, KUIPER, Klaudia, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands, MANNING, Phillip Lars, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424, OLEINIK, Anton E., Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, LARSON, Peter L., Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, PO Box 643, 117 Main St, Hill City, SD 57745, MAURRASSE, Florentin J., Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, VELLEKOOP, Johan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Naamsestraat 22, 3000, Leuven, 3000, Belgium and GURCHE, Loren, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045; Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, 2805 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33306, rdepalma@pbmnh.org
THE METEORITE FLUX TO EARTH IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS AS RECONSTRUCTED FROM SEDIMENT-DISPERSED EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPINELS
Abstract ID#: 280903
SCHMITZ, Birger1, HECK, Philipp R.2, ALVAREZ, Walter3, KITA, Noriko4, ROUT, Surya S.2, DEFOUILLOY, Céline4, SMIT, Jan5 and TERFELT, Fredrik1, (1)Astrogeobiology Laboratory, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden, (2)Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, (3)Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, (4)WiscSIMS, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, (5)Department of Sedimentary Geology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081, Netherlands, birger.schmitz@nuclear.lu.se
SAGA OF THE ALAMO BRECCIA
Abstract ID#: 285553
WARME, John E., 30968 Isenberg Lane, Evergreen, CO 80439, jwarme@mines.edu
THE LITTLE BIG HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL NOVO PORTO: HOW TWO VERSIONS OF THE SAME STORY AS WRITTEN IN ROCKS AND IN PARCHMENTS LEAD TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN HISTORY
Abstract ID#: 282600
MONTANARI, Sandro and BICE, David M., Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco, Cda. Coldigioco 4, Apiro, 60121, Italy, dmb53@psu.edu
A LITTLE BIG HISTORY OF IBERIAN GOLD:  GEOLOGICAL ORIGINS AND HUMAN CONSEQUENCES
Abstract ID#: 284043
AGUIRRE-PALAFOX, Luis Erick1, GARCIA-MORENO, Olga2, HAWLEY, William B.3 and ALVAREZ, Walter1, (1)Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, (2)Centro de Investigacion en Nanomateriales y Nanotecnologia, CSIC-UO-PA, Oviedo, E33005, Spain; Dept. Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, 33005, Spain; Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, (3)Berkeley Sesimological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 215 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720; Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, luis.eap@berkeley.edu
 
Break
Abstract ID#: 288316
LINKING DEEP MANTLE SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY AND SURFACE/NEAR SURFACE TECTONICS--A NEW GLOBAL TECTONIC REVOLUTION?
Abstract ID#: 282450
MOORES, Eldridge M., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 and SIMMONS, Nathan A., Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, emmoores@ucdavis.edu
STRESS PERMUTATIONS, OVERPRESSURE AND STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING DURING TECTONIC INVERSION
Abstract ID#: 284632
PEACOCK, David, Dept. Earth Science, University of Bergen, P.O.Box 7800, Bergen, 5020, Norway, ANDERSON, Mark W., Plymouth and TAVARNELLI, Enrico, Dipartimento Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Siena, Siena, 53100, Italy, enrico.tavarnelli@unisi.it
THE OLD RED SANDSTONE OF SCOTLAND: EVIDENCE FOR A GANGES-SIZED RIVER DRAINING THE CALEDONIAN HIGHLANDS OF NORWAY
Abstract ID#: 282537
ANDERS, Mark H.1, TEMPLETON, John A.2, CHRISTIE-BLICK, Nicholas2 and HEMMING, Sidney2, (1)Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, (2)Department of Earth Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, manders@ldeo.columbia.edu
EARTH'S CONSTANT MEAN ELEVATION: IMPLICATION FOR LONG-TERM SEA LEVEL AND OCEAN LITHOSPHERE DYNAMICS IN A PITMAN WORLD
Abstract ID#: 285812
ROWLEY, David B., Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, rowley@geosci.uchicago.edu
POST-OROGENIC UPLIFT OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
Abstract ID#: 287660
STEWART, Kevin G. and HILL, Jesse S., Department of Geological Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, kgstewar@email.unc.edu
OSCILLATORY TENDENCY IN AFTERSHOCKS MIGRATION PATTERN
Abstract ID#: 281539
CHAN, Lung Sang1, ZHOU, Yu2, LEUNG, Yee2 and YING, Winnie3, (1)Department of Earth Sciences and School of Continuing and Professional Education, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Department of Geography and Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, (3)Hatch, Mississauga, ON L5K 2R7, Canada, chanls@hku.hk
RECONSTRUCTING THE EUROPEAN HYPEREXTENDED MARGIN OF THE ALPINE TETHYS IN CALABRIA, SOUTHERN ITALY
Abstract ID#: 280784
SHIMABUKURO, David H.1, CAPARELLI, Sabina2 and PILUSO, Eugenio2, (1)Department of Geology, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819, (2)Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 15b, Arcavacata di Rende, 87036, Italy, dhs@csus.edu
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