Call for Papers - GSA 2008 "Western Interior Seaway" Technical Session (abstract deadline is June 3rd!!!)

Session Number:  T37
Session Name:  The Western Interior Seaway
(Posters)
Sponsors:  Paleontological Society; GSA
Sedimentary Geology Division; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
 
Session Type:
Posters (all day this year!)
 
Scientific Categories: Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy, Stratigraphy,
Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography - not limited to these categories!
 
This session is intended to be a multidisciplinary session
specifically devoted to studies of the Western Interior Seaway. Ideally,
presenters will be an eclectic mix of vertebrate and invertebrate
paleontologists, stratigraphers, sedimentologists, geophysicsts, geochemists,
petrologists, et. cetera. Also planned is a pre-convention field trip across
Texas (through the southern Texas portion of the Western Interior Seaway and on
to Big Bend National Park). Studies of the Western Interior Seaway have global
implications and presenters and visitors to the GSA from around the world are
invited to take this opportunity to meet and discuss their opinions at length.
 
Tentative List of Speakers: Peter Harries, Department of Geology, University of South Florida,
Peter Ward, Department of Biology, University of Washington - Seattle, John W.
Hoganson, Ph. D., State Paleontologist, North Dakota Geological Survey
Description: A
multidisciplinary session specifically devoted to studies of the Western
Interior Seaway and its global correlatives. Presenters will be an eclectic mix
of paleontologists, stratigraphers, sedimentologists, geophysicists,
geochemists, etc. focused on such work.
 
Convener/Advocate(s): Dee Ann Cooper, deeanncooper@yahoo.com, Roger W. Cooper,
rwcooper@my.lamar.edu
Abstract deadline is
June 3rd!!!  For submission instructions:  https://www.acsmeetings.org/programs/technical/faq/