UW-Madison SedPaleo Society

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Papers for Thursday 23 Feb 2009: Stratigraphic Paleontology

Allright all you secular humanist-atheistic-Darwinists! What better way to celebrate the birth of Our Lord (Charles Darwin) AND the publication of His Holiest Book (The Origin) than with a SedStratPaleo meeting!

Noel (who is a hell-bound evolutionist) has suggested an appropriatly Darwin-flavored topic for us to mull over, as well: STRATIGRAPHIC PALEONTOLOGY! He's agreed to put up with us in his very own house for the evening of Feb 23, 2009 (Monday), so gather up some beer, some food, and some blasphemy, and we'll see you all there.

The papers for the meeting are:

Scarponi, D., and Kowaleski, M., 2004, Stratigraphic paleoecology: Bathymetric signatures and sequence overprint of mollusc associations from the upper Quaternary sequences of the Po Plain, Italy: Geology, v. 32, p. 989-992.

Scarponi and Kowaleski 2004


Olszewski and Patzkowsky, 2001, Measuring recurrance of marine biotic gradients: A case study from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Midcontinent: Palaios, v. 16, p. 444-460

Olszewski and Patzkowsky 2001


Crampton et al., 2006, Second-order sequence stratigraphic controls on the quality of the fossil record at an active margin: New Zealand Eocene to Recent Molluscs: Palaios, v. 21, p. 86-105

Crampton Et Al 2006

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Papers for Thurs 29 Jan, 2009: Foreland Basin Geodynamics!!!

Hail and well-met, Earthy-nerds! That tingling sensation you are experiencing is the anticipation of the very first meeting of the Sed/Strat/Paleo/Beer club for 2009 (the Year of Our Secret Muslim Lord).

I heartily entreat you to gather 'round the tables of Good Sir David Lovelace, who has agreed to host our esteemed company on the Night of Thursday, 29th of January, at 7 o'clock in the evening. Bring food and drink to share, and a merry time shall be had by all!

Anyway, I have sent out an email with Dave's address, so keep alert for it.

The papers up for discussion are all about the Geodynamics of Foreland Basins (which are, by definition, RAD), so enjoy!

DeCelles and Giles 1997

DeCelles and Giles 1996

Catuneanu et al 1997

Catuneanu Et Al 1997
AND Burgess and Moresi 1999

Burgess and Moresi 1999