paleonet Ichnology and Taphonomy session at North-Central GSA, May 2005

["Tim Demko" <tdemko@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to announce a paleontolgy-related theme session at the upcoming North-Central Geological Society of America Meeting in Minneapolis, MN (May 19-20, 2005):

 

Novel Insights Into Terrestrial and Marine Depositional Systems Through Taphonomy and Ichnology (organized by Tim Demko, University of Minnesota Duluth and Ray Rogers, Macalester College)

 

Most earth scientists tend to view fossils from a paleobiological perspective, with fossil material destined to decipher aspects of ancient biological phenomena (e.g., evolution, ecology, behavior). However, ichnofossils provide otherwise unobtainable insights into sedimentary dynamics via evidence of organism-sediment interactions, and the taphonomy of fossils provides clues to a wide range of biotic and abiotic processes post mortem. For this session, we encourage submissions that focus on the use of paleontologic data in a "non-taxonomic" fashion, especially those that address paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic problems. Reports of actualistic studies, including neoichnology and experimental taphonomy, are also encouraged.

 

This is part of Theme Session 8 at:

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005NC/top/index.epl

The session is being sponsored by the Great Lakes Section of SEPM, who are also sponsoring several keynote speakers for this and other sessions at the meeting.

 

Both oral and poster presentations are being solicited. The abstract deadline is February 22, 2005.

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