FIRST ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE 1980

GULF COAST SECTION
SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALEONTOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS

In 1980, the GCSSEPM Foundation did not exist, and no one knew whether this series of conferences would be given more than once. Thanks to the vision, the extremely hard work of a few good people, and industry support, this year (2003) the twenty-third research conference will be held.

The program and abstracts of the first conference have been long unavailable. It would be prohibitively expensive to do it again in hard copy, and frankly, I have been unable to find a truly clean copy for scanning; it appears that everyone who attended took copious notes on/in their copy. Therefore, the program and abstracts have been retyped and the figures scanned from an original copy. Thus the exact look and layout is not the same as the original copy, but the words and figures are.

One key difference is that I have not retyped the program schedule; I assume that when the paper was given in the conference is not important but the abstract itself. A second key difference is that after the authors, I have included the original page numbers in the hard copy, so that the indicated page numbers may not reflect where it is at in this electronic copy. If you reference the abstract, these page numbers should be used, not the position of the paper in this copy.

Why has this been done? The last paragraph of the introduction by Gene Martin and Bob Perkins explain it all; the goals of the Section and Foundation have not changed. There is also a second reason: this has been done in tribute to those of the 1980 Section: what we have today is because of your hard work.

Thank you.

Dr. Norman C. Rosen,
Executive Director,
GCSSEPM Foundation

June, 2003

Click here to download a pdf file of the 1980 Research Conference Abstracts (1.7 MB).

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