Isogeochem users may be interested in attending the following one-day
meeting to be held in London on 27 February.

Please reply to Jim Marshall

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and not to isogeochem if you want to attend!

Cheers

Jim

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The Lyell Meeting -


ISOTOPIC STUDIES IN
PALAEONTOLOGY

Tuesday 27th February 1996

Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

10.30 am - 5.00pm

Conveners - John Hudson (Leicester) and Jim Marshall (Liverpool)

Programme

10.30 - Coffee and Posters

10.50  Introduction - Jim Marshall

11.00 - Paul Pearson, (Bristol) and Nick Shackleton, (Cambridge)  "Stable
isotopes and the enigma of planktonic forminifer evolution".

11.30 - Pat Brenchley, Jim Marshall (Liverpool), Linda Hints (Tallinn).
-'New isotopic data solving an old biostratigraphic problem: the Late
Ordovician Holorhynchus fauna from Baltica'.

12.00 - John Hudson (Leicester), Michal Gruszczynski (Warsaw) and Max
Coleman (Reading) -"Life history and palaeoenvironment of Jurassic
cephalopods from Lukow, Poland: what do isotopes tell us?

12.30 - Sandy Tudhope (Edinburgh)- 'Palaeoclimatic records from annually
banded corals

1.00 Lunch  - and Poster Session

14.00 - Fabien Kenig (Chicago), Jaap Damsté (Netherlands Institute for Sea
research), Brian Popp (Hawaii) and Roger E. Summons (Australian Geological
Survey). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Oxford Clay sea:
geochemical fossils and their carbon isotopic composition.

14.30 - David Beerling (Sheffield) 'Carbon isotope changes in fossil leaves
during the Younger Dryas'

15.00 - Jonathan Holmes (Kingston), F.A. Street-Perrott, P. Fothergill, D.
Harkness, D. Kroon, and R.A. Perrott ,'Holocene palaeolimnology of
Kajemarum Oasis, northern Nigeria: an isotopic study of ostracods,
authigenic carbonate and organic carbon'.
15.30 Tea - and Poster Session

16.00 - Peter Forey (British Museum)- 'Strontium isotopes and fossil
fishes: the highs and lows of ecological inference'.

16.30 - Rob Raiswell (Leeds) et al.- 'Isotopic and geochemical studies of
fossil pyritization.'
17.00 Concluding remarks - John Hudson


Intending Participants should contact - Jim Marshall preferably  by  email
-  isotopes @ liv.ac.uk or by post to Dept. of Earth Sciences, University
of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool,L69 3BX.

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Jim Marshall
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Liverpool
PO Box 147
Liverpool
L69 3BX
UK


tel (44) 0151- 794 - 5177
fax (44) 0151- 794 - 5170

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