PP51F:
Evolution of the Earth System I

Session ID#: 3524

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2010 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Dr. Colin Goldblatt, PhD, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada and Benjamin W Johnson, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Convener:  Dr. Colin Goldblatt, PhD, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-conveners:  Benjamin W Johnson, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Paul F Hoffman, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Dr. Colin Goldblatt, PhD, University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada
Index Terms:

0325 Evolution of the atmosphere [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0343 Planetary atmospheres [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1030 Geochemical cycles [GEOCHEMISTRY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The State of the Earth's Atmosphere 3.5 Ga Ago (Invited) (6172)
Bernard Marty, Guillaume Avice and Maia Kuga, CRPG-CNRS,Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
Sulfur Isotope Trends in Archean Microbialite Facies Record Early Oxygen Production and Consumption (21746)
Aubrey Zerkle1, Nicolette Meyer1, Gareth Izon1, Simon Poulton2, James Farquhar3 and Mark Claire4, (1)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of St Andrews, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom
Evolution of the Proterozoic Earth System: Insights from the ∆17O Record of Sedimentary Sulfate Minerals (Invited) (6596)
Peter William Crockford1, Justin A Hayles2, Galen P Halverson3, Andrey Bekker4, Robert Rainbird5 and Boswell A Wing3, (1)Carleton University, Department of Earth Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)Louisiana State Univ., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)University of California Riverside, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, United States, (5)Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
The nitrogen cycle in the aftermath of the mid-Cryogenian snowball Earth glaciation. (Invited) (5460)
Christopher K Junium1, Matthew Hurtgen2, Susannah Porter3, Galen P Halverson4 and Leigh Anne Riedman3, (1)Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Co-evolution of Eukaryotes and Ocean and Atmosphere Oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Eras (26373)
Tim Michael Lenton1, Stuart J Daines1, Benjamin Mills2 and Richard A Boyle3, (1)University of Exeter, Global Systems Institute, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Southern Denmark, Biology, Odense, Denmark
Variation of Atmospheric Oxygen in the Phanerozoic Recorded By δ13c of Terrestrial Organic Matter (8679)
Karlis Muehlenbachs1, Ralf Tappert2, Ryan C McKellar3, Alexander P Wolfe3, Michelle Tappert3 and Martin Schoell4,5, (1)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmopsheric Scdiences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Innsbruck, Austria, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Retired, Washington, DC, United States, (5)GasConsult International Inc., Berkeley, CA, United States
A Quarter Century Record of Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosol: implication for the past, present and future climates (13913)
Robina Shaheen1, M Abaunza1, Teresa Lou Jackson2, J McCabe3, J Savarino4, Mark H Thiemens1 and South pole aerosol team, (1)University of California San Diego, Chemistry, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, United States, (3)WPacific Ridge School, Carlsbad, CA, United States, (4)LGGE Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Saint Martin d'Hères, France