32^nd Annual Meeting

of

The American Association of

Stratigraphic Palynologists, Inc.

Program

Edited by

Fredrick J. Rich and James H. Darrell, II

October 26-30, 1999

Coastal Georgia Center

Savannah, Georgia

1999 officers of the American Association of

Stratigraphic Palynologists

President:

Christopher N. Denison

Chevron Overseas Petroleum, Inc.

P.O. Box 6046

San Ramon, California 94583-0946

President-Elect:

Fredrick J. Rich

Department of Geology and Geography

Georgia Southern University

P.O. Box 8149

Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8149

Past-President:

Rolf Mathewes

Department of Biological Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6

Secretary-Treasurer:

Thomas D. Demchuk

Conoco, Inc.

Permian 3048

P.O. Box 2197

Houston, Texas 77252

Managing Editor:

David K. Goodman

ARCO Alaska, Inc.

700 G Street

Anchorage, Alaska 99501

Directors-At-Large:

Robert A. Cushman, Jr.

Joyce Lucas-Clark

Paul Strother

Pierre A. Zippi

Schedule of events and presentations

8:00 AM The annual AASP Golf "Tournament", Southbridge Golf Club, Savannah

4:00 Registration in the lobby of the Coastal Georgia Center

7:00-10:00 Icebreaker at the Savannah History Museum.

8:45 -9:00 Welcoming remarks, and General Session in the auditorium, Coastal Georgia Center

9:00-9:20 Paul K. Strother and Gordon Wood - A Terrestrial Flora by Middle Cambrian Time: Evidence from the Bright Angel Shale and Rogersville Shale of the United States

9:20 -9:40 Chris Denison and Rebecca Sheppy - Dinocysts as Salinity Indicators in a Campanian Incised Valley-fill Succession, Tuscher Canyon, Eastern Utah

9:40 -10:00 Francine McCarthy, Peta Mudie, and Kevin Gostlin - What Do Palynological Records Record?

10:00 -10:20 Refreshment break

10:20 -10:40 G. Jones and W. Buhler - Pollen Analyses of Western Corn Rootworm

10:40 -11:00 C. Heunisch and U. Rosenfeld - LIthofacies and Palynofacies in the Triassic North and Northeast of the Rhenish Massif (NW Germany)

11:00 -11:20 Mirta Quattrocchio and William A.S. Sarjeant - Dinoflagellate Assemblages from the Paleocene of Southern Chile

11:20 -11:40 V. Wahnert and B.A.R. Mohr - Albian to Early Cenomanian Meso-and Palynofloras from the Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Indian Ocean) abstract only

12:00 -1:20 Lunch on the town

1:20-3:20 Special Session - Short-term Palynological Records with Emphasis on Human Influences, hosted by Art Cohen

1:20 - 1:40 Arthur Cohen - Assessing Anthropogenic Impacts on Peatlands Using Combined Palynologic and Petrographic Techniques

1:40 - 2:00 Robert Booth and Stephen Jackson - Impacts of Historical Logging and Fire on a Lake Superior Coastal Wetland, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

2:00 - 2:20 L. Dillon Gorham and Vaughn Bryant, Jr. - Palynological Studies of Two A.D. Ninth-Century Shipwrecks from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

2:20 - 2:40 Rolf Mathewes and Marlow Pellatt - High-Resolution Palynology of a Marine Core from Saanich Inlet, British Columbia

2:40 -3:00 Refreshment break

3:00-3:20 Peta Mudie, Andre Rochon, and Elisabeth Levac - Holocene Proxy-;Records of Red Tides

8:45 Opening remarks

9:00 -9:20 Mirta Quattrocchio and Wolfgang Volkheimer - Danian Microfloral Provinces in Argentina

9:20 - 9:40 John Beck and Paul Strother - Silurian Plant Diversity as Determined from Spores and Cryptospores from the Central Appalachians, U.S.A.

9:40 -10:00 Thomas Demchuk and the Conoco Taiwan Exploration Team - Palynological characterization and Multi-discipline Chronostratigraphic Interpretation of Cenozoic Strata from the Taiwan Straits Region

10:00 -10:20 Refreshment break

10:20 -10:40 Anneli Uutila and William A.S. Sarjeant - The Ordovician Acritarch Genera Tranvikium and Ampullula: Their Relationship and Taxonomy.

10:40 -11:00 James Mahaffy - Profile Patterns and Their Paleoecological Interpretation in the Herrin (No, 6) Coal Member at Old Ben No. 24 Mine (Franklin County, Illinois)

11:00 -11:20 Fredrick Rich - From Deepstep to Waycross : A Review of the Tertiary - Quaternary Boundary on the Georgia Coastal Plain

11:20 -11:40 Ebrahim Ghasemi-Nejad - Marine Palynomorphs Confirm Sequence Boundaries Established for the Swiss Basin (abstract only)

12:00 -1:20 Lunch on the town

1:20 - 2:20 General Session Resumes

1:20 - 1:40 Owen Davis - Steno, Dokuchaev, and Dimbleby: The Stratigraphy of Soils

1:40 - 2:00 E. Martinez-Hernandez and E. Ramirez Arriaga - Palynology of the Tepexi De Rodriguez Region, S.E. Puebla (Mexico): Chronostratigraphic Implications

2:00 - 2:20 Valenti Rull - Fossil Pollen Records and the Origin of Mangrove Communities

Valentina Shalaboda - Pollen Spectra in the Late Pleistocene Interglacial of Belarus (abstract only)

V. Shalaboda - Armeria Pollen in Interglacial Deposits of the Middle Pleistocene of Belarus (abstract only)

O.F. Dzyuba, T.L. Jakovleva, and A.N. Kudrina - Pollen Morphological Changes as a Model for Monitoring Changes in Animal and Human Generative Conditions in Industrial Regions (abstract only)

2:20 - 3:20 Poster Session Review - Lobby, Coastal Georgia Center

Friday, October 29

8:45 Opening remarks

9:00 - 11:40 Special Session on Cretaceous and Tertiary Palynology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, Southeastern U.S. , hosted by Joyce Lucas-Clark

9:00 - 9:20 John Firth - Maastrichtian Dinoflagellate Biostratigraphy of the Southeastern U.S. Continental Margin : U.S.G.S. Santee Coastal Reserve Borehole, Charleston, South Carolina, and ODP site 1052, Blake Nose Continental Slope

9:20 - 9:40 Joyce Lucas-Clark and Lucy Edwards - Two Dino Family Trees From The Old South

9:40 - 10:00 Donald Engelhardt and Robert Van Pelt - A Tertiary Palynological Zonation for the Savannah River Site, South Carolina and the Surrounding Area in the Southeastern United States

10:00 - 10:20 Refreshment break

10:20 - 10:40 Eddie Robertson -The Palynology of Early Eocene Samples from Georgia and South Carolina and Their Relationship to the Wetzeliella Marker Event

10:40 - 11:40 Steven Emslie (guest speaker) - A Fossil Death Assemblage of Seabirds and Fish: Evidence for Toxic Red Tides in the Late Pliocene of Florida

11:40 Group photo, Coastal Georgia Center

12:00-2:30 AASP Business Luncheon, Coastal Georgia Center.

2:30 Those who have registered for it can leave at this time for a fieldtrip to the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal, sponsored by Georgia Southern University and Reinhardt College. Local history and floodplain forest communities of the Ogeechee River will be discussed.

Saturday, October 30

8:00 Assemble at the Days Inn for fieldtrip to the Okefenokee Swamp.

6:00 Return to Savannah for another night on the town.