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Geological Society of America
North-Central Meeting
Rockford, Illinois
April 2-3, 2009


Coalition Presentations


Title: Determining sediment transport rates during deglaciation of the Michigan Lobe, northeastern Illinois
Authors: B. Brandon Curry
  Steven E. Brown
  Jason F. Thomason
Affiliations: Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, UIUC, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, curry@isgs.illinois.edu
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Title: Impacts of seasonal anoxia on microbiota (ostracodes) and sediment chemistry at Crystal Lake, Illinois, during the Anthropocene and the last glacial-interglacial transition
Authors: B. Brandon Curry (1)
  Gabriel M. Filippelli (2)
Affiliations: (1) Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, UIUC, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, curry@isgs.illinois.edu
  (2) Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 723 W. Michigan Street, SL 188, Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Title: Insights into the paleoenvironment of lacustrine sediments prior to the last glaciation at Wedron, Illinois
Authors: Nicole D. Fox (1)
  Jason Thomason (2)
  David Grimley (2)
  Brandon Curry (2)
Affiliations: (1) Department of Geology, University of Illinois, 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, ndfox2@illinois.edu
  (2) Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, UIUC, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
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Title: Illinoian and pre-Illinoian paleoecology and paleoenvironments in central and southern Illinois
Authors: David A. Grimley (1)
  Elizabeth Geiger (2)
  Andrew Phillips (1)
  Nathan Webb (1)
  Andrew Stumpf (1)
Affiliations: (1) Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, UIUC, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, grimley@isgs.illinois.edu
  (2) Department of Geology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901
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Title: Glacial Lake Mesick: A previously unrecognized proglacial lake associated with the Port Huron stadial
Authors: Kevin A. Kincare
Affiliations: U.S. Geological Survey, 926 A National Center, Reston, VA 20192, kkincare@usgs.gov
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Title: Age of organic carbon in late Wisconsin till, southwestern Michigan
Authors: Alan E. Kehew (1)
  Nathaniel A. Barnes (2)
  R. V. Krishnamurthy (1)
Affiliations: (1) Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, alan.kehew@wmich.edu
  (2) GeoTrans, Inc, 46010 Manekin Plaza, Suite 100, Sterling, VA 20166
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Title: Methodology and use of close range photogrammetry for geologic studies of inaccessible outcrops
Authors: Justine Petras (1)
  Christopher Stohr (2)
  Donald Mikulic (2)
Affiliations: (1) Department of Geology, University of Illinois, 1301 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, petras@isgs.illinois.edu
  (2) Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, UIUC, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
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Title: Interpreting subsurface glacigenic sequences: An example of using exposed ice-contact sediments as a model for mapping buried ice-margin deposits
Authors: Jason F. Thomason
  Steven E. Brown
Affiliations: Illinois State Geological Survey, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, UIUC, 615 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820, thomason@isgs.uiuc.edu
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Title: Separating stratigraphic layers and local facies in borehole records from glacial sediments using statistical analysis
Authors: Erik R. Venteris
Affiliations: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey, 2045 Morse Rd., C-2, Columbus, OH 43229, erik.venteris@dnr.state.oh.us
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