PP42B:
Neoproterozoic Glaciation: Interrogation of Data and Models I

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Ian J Fairchild, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Huiming Bao, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ian J Fairchild, Univ Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Huiming Bao, Louisiana State Univ., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Francis A Macdonald, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Huiming Bao, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Flood Basalts and Neoproterozoic Glaciation
Galen P Halverson1, Grant M Cox1, Marcus Kunzmann1, Justin Vincent Strauss2 and Francis A Macdonald2, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
10:35 AM
 
How cloud radiative forcing could allow Snowball Earth deglaciation
Dorian S Abbot, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
10:50 AM
 
Did photosynthetic organisms take refuge in ice shadows during Snowball Earth events?
Adam J Campbell1, Stephen G Warren1,2 and Edwin D Waddington1, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Astrobiology Program, Seattle, WA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Orbitally Forced Climatic Fluctuations in Snowball Earth: Compelling Evidence from a Data-Model Study
Doug Benn1, Ian J Fairchild2, Guillaume Le Hir3, Ed Fleming4, Gilles Ramstein5, Carl Stevenson4, Yannick Donnadieu5, Huiming Bao6, Michael Hambrey7, Michael S Petronis8 and Peter Wynn9, (1)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (2)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (3)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris - IPGP, Paris, France, (4)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, (5)LSCE CEA/CNRS, Gif Sur Yvette, France, (6)Louisiana State Univ., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (7)university of aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (8)New Mexico Highlands Univ, Las Vegas, NM, United States, (9)Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
11:20 AM
 
Developing an Age Model for the Cryogenian: the South China perspective
Daniel James Condon1, Maoyan Zhu2, Francis A Macdonald3 and Simon Tapster1, (1)British Geological Survey, NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (2)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, China, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:35 AM
 
Making up for Lost Time: Stratigraphic and Geochemical Implications of a Long-Lived Sturtian Glaciation
Francis A Macdonald1, Mark David Schmitz2, Daniel James Condon3, Maoyan Zhu4, Alan D Rooney1 and Alan D Brandon5, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Dept Geoscience, Boise, ID, United States, (3)NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, United Kingdom, (4)Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, China, (5)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
11:50 AM
 
Sea-level change following the Marinoan Snowball Earth deglaciation
Jessica R Creveling, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jerry X Mitrovica, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
12:05 PM
 
Cryogenian Snowball Earth: a 25th anniversary assessment of models and data
Paul F Hoffman, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada