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View Entire Issue Vol. 12, No. 1 A Publication of the Geological Society of America January 2002 Inside This Issue Eocene Meridional Weather Patterns Reflected in the Oxygen Isotopes of Arctic Fossil Wood A. Hope Jahren and Leonel Silveira Lobo Sternberg, p. 4 Section Meetings: North–Central and Southeastern, p. 20 South–Central, p. 26 Introducing the ZSX XRF Spectrometer Series from • Extra thin Rh end window tube for superior light element performance • 500 micron spot size • Mapping capabilities • Small sample analysis • Application wizards • X-Y sample stage For more information contact Rigaku at: 9009 New Trails Drive • The Woodlands, Texas 77381 Web: www.rigaku.com Phone: 281-363-1033 • Fax: 281-364-3628 E-mail: [email protected] Contents GSA TODAY (ISSN 1052-5173) is published monthly by The Geological Vol. 12, No. 1 January 2002 Society of America, Inc., with offices at 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, Colorado. Mailing address: P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140, U.S.A. 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GSA Science and Outreach: 2001 Highlights . .45 50% Total Recovered Fiber On the cover: Arctic fossil wood on Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic. 10% Postconsumer See “Eocene Meridional Weather Patterns Reflected in the Oxygen Isotopes of Arctic Fossil Wood,” by A.H. Jahren and L.S.L. Sternberg, p. 4–9. Eocene Meridional Weather Patterns Reflected in the Oxygen Isotopes of Arctic Fossil Wood A. Hope Jahren, [email protected], Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA Leonel Silveira Lobo Sternberg, [email protected], Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA ABSTRACT Figure 1. Map showing present-day location The spectacularly preserved Metasequoia wood excavated of Axel Heiberg Island. from the Fossil Forest site of Axel Heiberg Island (Canadian High Arctic) provides a unique window into the δ18O value INTRODUCTION of Eocene meteoric water via the analysis of fossil cellulose. The sediments of Axel Heiberg Island, located in the High Seventeen fossilized Metasequoia individuals yielded Arctic of Canada (Fig. 1), contain hundreds of fossil cellulose with δ18O (Vienna standard mean ocean water Metasequoia trees that grew at a paleolatitude of 82°N. The [VSMOW]) values ranging from 17.1‰ to 21.4‰ and with a Fossil Forest site, near the western coast of the island, has mean value of 19.9‰—strikingly low compared to modern been a focus of research since 1986 and has inspired numer- trees of all latitudes. Using established biosynthetic ous monographs on the evolutionary and biogeographic relationships for plant cellulose, we reconstructed the δ18O history of plants. All fossil wood recovered from Axel Heiberg (VSMOW) value of Eocene meteoric water to be −15.1‰ on Island has been of gymnosperm origin, mostly Metasequoia Axel Heiberg Island—a value similar to previous with rare occurrences of Picea and Larix (Jagels et al., 2001); determinations of Eocene terrestrial water using varied however, significant angiosperm populations were present in paleoenvironmental indicators. A wholly temperature-based Fossil Forest communities (Kalkreuth et al., 1996). The forest- interpretation of these isotopic results would predict a mean bearing sediments are extensive (Fig. 2A), and contain large annual temperature of −2.7 °C, but this is incompatible with quantities of mummified litter, stumps, boles, roots, seeds, extremely high forest productivity. Instead, a calculation of cones, rhizomes, soil organic matter, and fossilized resin. The isotopic fractionation in moisture transported from the Pacific excellent state of preservation, which suggests little alteration Ocean north across North America explains the simultaneous beyond drying (Fig. 2B), presents a unique opportunity to arrival of warm air and isotopically depleted moisture in the apply stable isotope techniques usually reserved for much Eocene Arctic; we suggest that these meridional weather younger substrates. Holocene trees have been used to patterns were caused by the absence of a Polar Front during estimate paleotemperature using relationships between δ18O the ice-free Eocene. value of cellulose and δ18O value of site precipitation (Burk Figure 2. A: The Fossil Forest site of Axel Heiberg Island. B: Exceptional preservation of Eocene wood fossils. 4 JANUARY 2002, GSA TODAY and Stuvier, 1981) and between δD Eocene to early Oligocene. The most Forest site itself are three tooth enamel value of cellulose-nitrate and δD value widely known age was assigned using fragments found as “float on poorly of site precipitation (Yapp and Epstein, vertebrate fossils found within the consolidated, reddish brown sandstone” 1977). However, lack of well-preserved correlative Eureka Sound Group on directly overlying the R-S-T coal of the fossils has prevented application of western Ellesmere Island (Dawson et Fossil Forest site (Fig. 3; Eberle and these relationships in deep time until al.,
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