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)


Dockum Group
(key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)


Garita Creek Formation (key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)


Tecovas Formation (key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)


Trujillo Fomration (key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)


Bull Canyon Fomration (key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)

Redonda Formation (key papers from the USGS stratigraphic lexicon)