Key Papers
(Under Construction! Will
be continously updated based on participants submissions. If you don't
see something you think is important send a .pdf file of the paper or
the reference to polsen@ldeo.columbia.edu)
Workshop Specific
Cohen, A.S. & Nielsen, D.L (eds.),
2003, Best Practices in the Development of Scientific Drilling
Projects, Report of a Workshop, May 31, 2003, Radisson Metrodome Hotel,
Minneapolis, MN, DOSECC, Inc., 30 p. (
PDF)
Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Raeside, R., 1999, International workshop
for a climatic, biotic, and tectonic, pole-to-pole coring transect of
Triassic-Jurassic Pangea. Newsletter, ICDP (Potsdam), v. 1, p. 16-20. (
PDF)
Olsen, P. E., Kent, D V., Cornet, B., Witte, W. K., Schlische, R.
W., 1996, High-resolution stratigraphy of the Newark rift basin (Early
Mesozoic, Eastern North America): Geological Society of America, v.
108, 40-77. (
PDF)
Magnetostratigraphy
Bazard, D.R. & Butler, R.F., 1991. Paleomagnetism of the Chinle and
Kayenta Formations, New Mexico and Arizona. Journal of Geophysical
Research, 96: 9847-9871. (
PDF)
Ekstrand, E.J. & Butler, R.F., 1989. Paleomagnetism of the Moenave
Formation: Implications for the Mesozoic North American apparent polar
wander path. Geology, 17: 245-248. (
PDF)
Kent, D.V., & Olsen, P.E., 2007, Early Jurassic
magnetostratigraphy and paleolatitudes from the Hartford continental
rift basin (eastern North America): Testing for polarity bias and
abrupt polar wander in association with the Central Atlantic Magmatic
Province. Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.
Kent, D.V. & Olsen, P.E., 1999, Astronomically tuned geomagnetic
polarity time scale for the Late Triassic, Journal of Geophysical
Research, 104:12,831-12,841. (
PDF)
Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Witte, W.K., 1995, Late Triassic-Early
Jurassic geomagnetic polarity and paleolatitudes from drill cores in
the Newark rift basin (Eastern North America). Journal of Geophysical
Research, 100 (B8): 14,965-14,998. (
PDF)
Kent, D.V. & Tauxe, L., 2005, Corrected Late Triassic latitudes for
continents adjacent to the North Atlantic. Science, 307(5707): 240-244. (
PDF)
Kent, D.V. & Witte, W.K., 1993. Slow apparent polar wander for
North America in the Late Triassic and large Colorado Plateau Rotation.
Tectonics, 12: 291-300. (
PDF)
Molina-Garza, R.S., Geissman, J.W. and Lucas, S., 2003. Paleomagnetism
and magnetostratigraphy of the lower Glen Canyon and upper Chinle
Groups, Jurassic-Triassic of northern Arizona and northeast Utah.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B4): doi:10.1029/2002JB001909. (
PDF)
Molina-Garza, R.S., Geissman, J.W., Van der Voo, R., Lucas, S.G.,
Hayden, S.N., 1991. Paleomagnetism of the Moenkopi and Chinle
Formations in central New Mexico: Implications for the North American
apparent polar wander path and Triassic magnetostratigraphy. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 96: 14,239-14,262. (
PDF)
Steiner, M.B. & Lucas, S., 1992. A Middle Triassic paleomagnetic
pole for North America. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 104:
993-998. (
PDF)
Steiner, M.B. & Lucas, S.G., 2000, Paleomagnetism of the Late
Triassic Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group, Western United
States., further evidence of "large" rotation of the Colorado Plateau:
Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, v. 105,
no. 11, p. 25,791-25,808. (
PDF)
Szurlies, M., 2007. Latest Permian to Middle Triassic
cyclo-magnetostratigraphy from the Central European Basin, Germany:
Implications for the geomagnetic polarity timescale. Earth and
Planetary Science Letters: doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.018. (
PDF)
Paleoclimate
Loope, D.B., Steiner, M.B., Rowe, C.M.,
Lancaster, N., 2004, Tropical westerlies over Pangaean sand seas.
Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 315–322. (
PDF)
Olsen, P.E. & Kent, D.V., 1999, Long-period Milankovitch cycles
from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of eastern North America and
their implications for the calibration of the early Mesozoic time scale
and the long-term behavior of the planets. Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society of London (series A), v. 357, p. 1761-1787. (
PDF)
Parrish, J.T. & Peterson, F., 1988, Wind directions predicted from
global circulation models and wind directions determined from eolian
sandstones. Sedimentary Geology, v. 56, p. 261-282. (
PDF)
Parrish, J.T., 1993, Climate of the Supercontinent Pangea. The Journal of Geology, 101: 215-233. (
PDF) [NB!
The
author has asked that it be noted that she will be providing
significantly updated data and interpretations relevent to this paper
at the meeting].
Peterson, F., 1988, Pennsylvanian to Jurassic eolian transportation
systems in the western United States. Sedimentary Geology, v. 56,
207-260. (
PDF)
Ufnar, D.F., González, L.A., Ludvigson, G.A., Brenner, R.L.,
Witzke, B.J., 2004, Evidence for increased latent heat transport during
the Cretaceous (Albian) greenhouse warming. Geology, v. 32(12) p.
1049–1052. (
PDF)
Ziegler A., Eshel G., Rees P.M., Rothfus T., Rowley D., Sunderlin D.,
2003, Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present.
Lethaia,, 36(3): 227-254. (
PDF)
Isotopic Dating
Riggs, M.R., Ash, S.R., Barth, A.P., Gehrels, G.E., Wooden, J.L., 2003.
Isotopic age of the Black Forest Bed, Petrified Forest Member, Chinle
Formation, Arizona: An example of dating a continental sandstone.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 115: 1315-1323. (
PDF)
Triassic-Jurassic Boundary and Biotic Change
Lucas, S.G. & Tanner, L.H.,
2007, Tetrapod biostratigraphy and biochronology of the
Triassic–Jurassic transition on the southern Colorado Plateau,
USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 244, p.
242–256. (
PDF)
Lucas, S.G. & Tanner, L.H., 2007, The nonmarine
Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the Newark Supergroup of eastern
North America. Earth-Science Reviews, 84: 1–20. (
PDF)
Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Sues, H.-D., Koeberl, C., Huber, H.,
Montanari, A., Rainforth, E. C., Fowell, S.J., Szajna, M.J., Hartline,
B.W., 2002, Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the
Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Science, v. 296, p. 1305-1307. (
PDF)
Tanner, L.H., Lucas, S.G., Chapman, M.G., 2004, Assessing the record
and causes of Late Triassic extinctions. Earth-Science Reviews, v. 65,
p. 103–139. (
PDF)
Tanner, L.H. & Lucas, S.G., 2007, The Moenave Formation:
Sedimentologic and stratigraphic context of the Triassic–Jurassic
boundary in the Four Corners area, southwestern U.S.A. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 244, p. 111-125. (
PDF)
van Dam, J.A., Aziz, H.A., Sierra, M.A.A., Hilgen, F.J., Ostende,
L.W.V.D.H., Lourens, L.J., Mein, P., van der Meulen, A.J.,
Pelaez-Campomanes, P., 2006, Long-period astronomical forcing of mammal
turnover. Nature, 443 (7112): 687-691. (
PDF)
Lithostratigraphy and Sedimentology and Provenance
General
Blakey, R.C., 1989, Triassic and
Jurassic geology of the southern Colorado Plateau, in Jenney, J. P.,
and Reynolds, S. J., Geologic evolution of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona
Geological Society Digest 17, p. 369-396. (PDF)
Blakey, R.C., Peterson, F., Kocurek, G., 1988, Synthesis of late
Paleozoic and Mesozoic eolian deposits of the Western Interior of the
United States. Sedimentary Geology, v. 56, p. 3-125. (
PDF)
Riggs, N.R., Lehman, T.M., Gehrels, G.E., Dickinson, W.R., 1996,
Detrital zircon link between headwaters and terminus of the Upper
Triassic Chinle-Dockum paleoriver system. Science, v. 273, p. 97-100. (
PDF)
Woody, D., 2006, Revised stratigraphy of the lower Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of Petrified Forest National Park. in
Parker, W.G., Ash, S.R., and Irmis, R.B. (eds.), A Century of Research
at Petrified Forest National Park. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin
No. 62., p. 17-45. (
PDF)
Colorado Plateau (by formation)
Moenkopi (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Chinle (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Moenave (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Kirkland, J.I. and Milner, A.R.C., 2006, The Moenave Formation at the
St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, St. George,
southwestern Utah. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Bulletin 37:289-309. (
PDF)
Wingate (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Kayenta (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Navajo (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Rahl, J.M., Reiners, P.W., Campbell,
I.H., Nicolescu, S., Allen, C.M., 2003, Combined single-grain (U-Th)/He
and U/Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Navajo Sandstone, Utah.
Geological Society of America, Bulletin, v. 31(9), p. 761–764. (
PDF)
San Rafael Group (
key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)
Craton (Texas and New Mexico: by formation)