2016:
Baranyi, V., Reichgelt, T., Olsen, P.E., William G. Parker, W.G., Kuerschner, W.M., 2016, Norian vegetation history and related
environmental changes: new data from the Chinle
Formation, Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, SW USA). GSA Bull. submitted.
Buhedma, H.M.A, , Geissman,
J.W., McIntosh, J., Olsen, P.E., Dennis V Kent, 2016,
Preliminary magnetic polarity stratigraphy and rock magnetic data from the
continuous cored record of Triassic continental environmental change, the
Colorado Plateau Coring Project. AGU, 2016 Fall
Meeting, GP31B-1298: (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/144302).
Huber, P., Olsen,
P.E., LeTourneau, P.M., 2016, Incipient Pangean
rifting responsible for the initiation of Chinle-Dockum
sedimentation: Insights from the Newark Supergroup and shared Late Triassic
plate-scale tectonic events and geochronologies.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Northeastern Section, v.
48(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-271702 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016NE/webprogram/Paper271702.html).
Olsen, P., Geissman, J., Gehrels, G., Irmis, R., Kent, D., Mundil, R.,
Parker, W., Sha, J., Roberto-Molina Garza, R-M., Kuerschner, W., Bachmann, G., and Schaller, M., 2016, The
Colorado Plateau coring project (CPCP): exportable chronostratigraphic context for Triassic-Jurassic Earth
System events and processes. International Geological
Congress, Abstracts, v. 35; 35th international geological congress, Cape Town,
South Africa, Aug. 27-Sept. 4, 2016. (GeoRef)
(download abstract)
Olsen, P.E.,
Parker, W., Kuerschner, W., Huber, P., Geissman, J., 2016, Implications of the stratigraphic
results of the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP):
salt vs. plate tectonics vs. eustasy in the Late
Triassic Chinle Formation. International
Geological Congress, Abstracts, v. 35; 35th international geological congress,
Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 27-Sept. 4, 2016. (GeoRef)
(download abstract).
Olsen. P.E., Philpotts, A.R., McDonald, N.G., Steinen, R.P., Kinney, S.T., Jaret, S.J., Rasbury, E.T., 2016, Wild and wonderful implications of the 5 mm Pompton Ash of the Hartford and Newark basins (Early Jurassic, Eastern North America). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Northeastern Section, v. 48(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272509 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016NE/webprogram/Paper272509.html).
Olsen, P.E., 2015, The Geological Orrery:
Using Earth's Sedimentary Record to Map the Chaotic Evolution of the Solar
System. The 2nd Symposium of International Geoscience Programme Project 632,
Geologic and biotic events on the continent during the Jurassic/Cretaceous
transition, September 2015, Shenyang, China, p. 153-155. (download .pdf of abstract) (go to IGCP 632 abstract volume page).
Olsen,
P.E., Sha, J., Kinney, S.T., Hemming, S.R., Rasbury,
T., Jaret, S.J, 2015,
Geochronology and astrochronology of mid- to high-latitude Mesozoic continental
systems of China and low-latitude North America. Geological
Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v 47(7), https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper266970.html.
2014:
Geissman, J.G., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Irmis, R.B., Gehrels,
G.E., Mundil, R., Parker,
W., Bachmann, G.H., Kuerschner,
W.M., Molina-Garza, R., Sha, J., 2014, The inception
of the Colorado Plateau Coring Project: Filling the Triassic geochronologic gap and providing a continuous record of
continental environmental change in western equatorial pangea.
AGU, 2014
Fall Meeting, Abstracts, Paper 11439, PP31C-1145 (go
to web page of abstract).
Irmis, R.B., Mundil, R., Geissman, J.W., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H.,
2014, New geochronologic constraints allow
comparisons between Late Triassic biota and paleoenvironment
from western and eastern North America. Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs. v. 6(3)3,
Paper 12-2. (go to web page of abstract).
Olsen P., Geissman J., Gehrels G., Irmis R., Kent D., Martz, J., Mundil
R., Parker, W., 2014, The Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP):
Providing a precise numerical timescale for Triassic Earth system events and
processes. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, Berlin,
Germany, November 5–8, 2014, p. 198-199. (download .pdf of abstract).
Olsen, P., Geissman, J., Gehrels, G., Irmis, R., Kent, D., Mundil, R.,
Parker, W., Sha, J.G., Garza, R.M.,
Kurschner, W., Bachmann G., 2014, The Colorado
Plateau Coring Project (CPCP): Chronostratigraphic
Context for Triassic-Jurassic Earth System Events and Processes. 1st Symposium
of IGCP 632 in the 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, p.876. (download .pdf of abstract).
Olsen, P.E., Geissman, J.W., Gehrels, G., Irmis, R.B., Kent, D.V., Mundil, R., Parker, W., Sha, J., Molina-Garza, R.S., Kuerschner, R,, Gerhard H Bachmann, G.H.,
Schaller, M., Natalia V Zakharova, N.V., Colbert, M., 2014, The Colorado Plateau Coring
Project (CPCP): A continuous cored Record of Triassic
continental environmental change in Western North America. AGU,
2014 Fall Meeting, Abstracts, Paper 11510, PP31C-1145. (go to web page of abstract).
2013:
Olsen, P.E.,
Kent, D.V., Geissman, J.W., Mundil, R., Gehrels, G.E., Irmis, R.B., Whiteside, J.H., Morgan F Schaller, M.F.,
2013, Filling the Triassic geochronologic gap: a
continuous cored record of continental environmental change in western North
America. Abstract GP42A-10 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU,
San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. (download
.pdf of abstract).
Irmis,
R.B. and Mundil, R., 2011,
Filling a 30 Million Year Gap: Radioisotopic Age
Constraints for the Late Triassic Timescale. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Abstract #V44A-08. (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AGUFM.V44A..08I).
Bachmann, G.H., Szurlies, M, Olsen, P.E, Kent, D.V., Geissman, J.W., Mundil, R., Gehrels, G., R.B. Irmis, R.B.,
Blakey, R., Kueschner, W.M., J. Sha, J., R. Molina-Garza, R., 2010, Colorado
Plateau Coring Project (CPCP): 100 million years of
climatic, tectonic, and biotic evolution in continental cores. IODP/ICDP Kolloquium
"Geozentrum" Frankfurt, March 9-11, 2010, p. 28.
Geissman, J.W., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V.,
2010, Site Selected for Colorado Plateau
Coring: Colorado Plateau Coring Project Workshop, Phase 2: 100 Million
Years of Climatic, Tectonic, and Biotic Evolution from Continental Coring. EOS,
Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 91(14), p. 128.
Mundil, R., Irmis,
R.B., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V.,
2010, Calibration of the Late Triassic time scale: U-Pb
zircon ages from the Chinle Formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(12),
p.A738.
Olsen, P.E.,
Kent, D. V., Geissman, J. W., Bachmann, G., Blakey, R.C., Gehrels,
G., Irmis, R. B., Kuerschner,
W., Molina-Garza, R., Mundil, R., Sha, J., 2010, The
Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP): 100 Million
Years of Earth System History. Earth Science Frontiers, v. 17, special issue,
p. 55-63. (download a .pdf of this paper: 7.2
MB).
Olsen, P.E. and
Kent, D.V., 2009, Climate models in deep time require
tight temporal and latitudinal constraints: the Colorado Plateau as a case in
point. AAPG, Annual Convention & Exhibition,
Denver, Abstracts. (go to web page of the abstract) (download a ,pdf of the abstract).
Olsen, P.E.,
Kent, D.V., Mundil, R., Irmis, R., Geissman, J.W., 2009, The Colorado Plateau Coring Project: The
timescale and tempo of biotic change of the Early Mesozoic. AGU, 90(52),
Fall Meet. Suppl. GP22A-08 (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/waisfm09.html) (download
a .pdf of the abstract).
Olsen,
P.E., Kent, D.V., Geissman,
J.W., 2008, CPCP: Colorado
Plateau Coring Project – 100 Million years of early Mesozoic climatic,
tectonic, and biotic evolution of an epicontinental
basin complex. Scientific Drilling Journal, No.6., p.
62-66. (download a .pdf of this paper: 1.4
MB).
Olsen,
P.E., Kent, D.V., Geissman,
J.W., 2008, Climatic, Tectonic, and Biotic Evolution
in Continental Cores: Colorado Plateau Coring Project: Workshop St. George,
Utah, 13-16 November 2007. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical
Union, v. 89(12), p. 118.