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George Stanley (Missoula) is organizing a thematic paleontology session "Three Billion Years of Reef Systems" at the 2002 Geological Society of America Annual meeting in Denver (October 27-30). The planned session also will be sponsored by the Paleontological Society. See topic T76 at: http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2002/t_topical.htm It intentionally is planned to be broad and to address diverse topics related to reefs, reef-like features and carbonate buildups from the Precambrian through Phanerozoic time. As stated in the summary, reefs are enduring marine ecosystems. Their biotic and geologic history has been affected by changes in atmosphere, nutrients, seawater chemistry, sedimentation, and the evolution of new biotic groups. This session explores interdisciplinary approaches to better understand the history and sedimentology of reefs. Some of the topics of this session will be reef evolution, processes on reefs and how reef systems (both biotic and sedimentologic) have changed over geologic time. If you are interested in participating, please contact me with a possible title and a brief summary. Thanks, George D. Stanley, Jr. Department of Geology University of Montana 32 Campus Drive #1296 Missoula, MT 59812 USA FAX: 406-243-4028 VOICE: 406-243-5693 E-mail: fossil@selway.umt.edu
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