Curriculum Vitae of Paul E. Olsen
(Pt. 3 - Abstracts)

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Abstracts

2005:

Olsen, P.E., Rasbury, E.T., Whiteside, J.H., 2005, Implications of radiometric ages from stromatolites, coprolites, and caliches from the Newark and Hartford Triassic-Jurassic rift basins. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with programs, v. 37 (1), p. 7 (invited).  (go to the web page of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Whiteside, J.H., 2005, Towards an astronomically calibrated timescale for the Jurassic. Abstracts for International Symposium on the Jurassic Boundary Events, The First Symposium of IGCP 506, Nov. 1-4, 2005, Nanjing, China, p. 64-65. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., 2005, Intensification of Milankovitch cycles associated with the Triassic-Jurassic super-greenhouse. Geophysical Research Abstracts (EGU 05-A-10827). (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Whiteside, J.H. and Olsen, P.E., 2005, Arboreal stromatolits from the Triassic and Jurassic of eastern North America: Implications for environmental change. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with programs, v. 37 (1), p. 8 (invited).  (
go to the web page of the abstract).

2004:

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Muttoni, G., and Whiteside, J.H., 2004, Assessment of implications of recent marine magnetostratigraphic correlations for non-marine identification of the Carnian-Norian and Norian-Rhaetian boundaries. International Geological Congress, Florence, Florence, Italy, August 20-28; Abstracts.

Olsen, P.E., Machlus, M., Rasbury, T, and Kent, D.V., 2004, The full spectrum of Milankovitch precession-related periodicities in Triassic age lacustrine strata of eastern North America: from 10 k.y. to 3.5 m.y. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 6, 07733. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H., Et-Touhami, M., Kent, D.V., Fowell, S.J., 2004, Stratigraphic Relationship between the continental Triassic-Jurassic boundary and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province in Eastern North America and Morocco. International Geological Congress, Florence, Florence, Italy, August 20-28; Abstracts.

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Sambrotto, R.N., 2004, Negative d13C anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Pangean arid tropics. International Geological Congress, Florence, Florence, Italy, August 20-28; Abstracts.

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Sambrotto, R.N., and Cornet, B., 2004, Milankovitch modulation of d13Corg and fish communities in the tropical great lakes of the Triassic-Jurassic Pangean rift system. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 6, 07738. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

2003:

Et-Touhami, M. and Olsen, P.E., 2003, Eolian deposits in the Bigoudine Formation (Late Triassic, Argana Valley, Morocco): climatic signal vs geographic facies. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 3, p. 16. (go to abstract).

Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., and Christie-Blick, N., 2003, Lacustrine facies typology in the Triassic-Jurassic rifts of Eastern North America and Greenland compared to that of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 3, p. 11. (go to abstract).

Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2003, Milankovitch cyclicity in the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and Wyoming: ILIC3: The Third International Limnogeology Congress Abstract Volume, Tuscon, Arizona 29 March - 2 April, 2003, p. 171. (go to abstract).

Muttoni, G.; Kent, D.V.; Olsen, P.E.; Bernasconi, S.; Lowrie, W.; Martín Hernández, F.; Di Stefano, P., 2003, Tethyan magnetostratigrapy from Pizzo Mondello and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark APTS., Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, p. 02244. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., 2003, High-resolution climatic and tectonic framework for the Triassic-Jurassic rifts of Eastern North America and Morocco and the distribution of potential sources rocks. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 3, p. 15. (go to abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M., and Whiteside, J.H., 2003, The initial CAMP flood basalt event and its relationship to overlying carbonate-rich sequences (North America and Northwest Africa): two options related to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 3, p. 89. (go to abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., and Et-Touhami, M., 2003, Chronology and stratigraphy of the Fundy and related Nova Scotia offshore basins and Morocco based on core and outcrop. GSA-AGS Core Workshop Display Abstracts. (http://www.dal.ca/~es/2003GSA/2003-NEGSA.htm) (go to abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., and LeTourneau, P.M., 2003, Milankovitch forcing in equatorial, Late Triassic Pangea: (Deep River; Dan River, and Richmond basins, southeastern USA). Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 84, no. 46, p. F915. (go to the www version).

Olsen, P.E. and Machlus, M., 2003, What controls organic matter preservation in lakes? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 7, p. 104. (go to the www version).

Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H., 2003, Evolutionary and ecological sequelae of mass extinctions: examples from the continental Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 84, no. 46, p. F335. (go to the www version).

Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H., LeTourneau, P.M., and Kent, D.V., 2003, The first half million years of the Jurassic as seen in the stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 7, p. 88. (go to the www version).

Sues, H.-D., Carter, J., Olsen, P., Novak, S., and Peyer, K., 2003, Life and death in the Late Triassic: an extraordinary assemblage from the Newark Supergroup of North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v, 23, suppl. to no. 3, p. 102A. (go to abstract).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Cornet, B., and Sambrotto, R.N., 2003, Parallel δ13C and conifer physiognomic trends across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 84, no. 46, p. F299. (go to the www version).

Whiteside, J.H. and Olsen, P.E., 2003, Possible Triassic-Jurassic boundary sections, Hartford basin, Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 3, 84. (go to abstract).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., and Sambrotto, R.N., 2003, Negative δ13C carbon isotopic anomaly in continental strata at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in eastern North America (Newark Basin, Pennsylvania, USA). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 7, p. 160. (go to the www version).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., and Rasbury, T., 2003, A 230 million year old record of arboreal stromatolites. Fourth International Symbiosis Congress Schedule and Abstracts. Etc. Press, Halifax, Nova Scotia, p. 173-174.

2002:

Et-Touhami, M., Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V, and Puffer, J., 2002. Lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, and magnetic evidence for brief and synchronous Early Mesozoic basalt eruption over Morocco immediately after the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. in McRoberts, C. A. and Olsen, P. E., (eds.), Triassic-Jurassic Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark, and Hartford basins (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts), Eastern United States, 2nd Field Workshop, June 7th-12th, 2002, Abstracts with Programs, p. 10. (download pdf)

Olsen, P. E., Et-Touhami, M., P. E., Kent, D. V, and Fowell, S. J., 2002, Triassic-Jurassic boundary strata in eastern North America and Morocco. in McRoberts, C. A. and Olsen, P. E., (eds.), Triassic-Jurassic Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark, and Hartford basins (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts), Eastern United States, 2nd Field Workshop, June 7th-12th, 2002, Abstracts with Programs, p. 14-15. (download pdf)

Olsen, P. E.,  Et-Touhami, M., and Puffer, J., 2002, Comparison of the continental syn-basalt (CAMP) Earliest Jurassic age strata of Eastern North American rift basins with coeval continental to marine strata of Morocco. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 2, p. A-31. (go to abstract).

Olsen, P. E..  Kent, D. V., Et-Touhami, M., Fowell, S. J., and Witte, W. K.,, 2002, Cyclicity, Time scale, and Correlation of the Triassic and Early Jurassic Rift Strata of the Argana Basin, Morocco, in Essamoud, R. and Ekamel, F. (eds.), 2002, Troisème Réunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias, Casablanca, 18-20 Avril 2002, Résumés, p. 29-30. (go to abstract).

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., and LeTourneau,, P. M., 2002, Stratigraphy and age of the Early Jurassic Portland Formation of Connecticut and Massachusetts: a contribution to the time scale of the Early Jurassic. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 2, p. A-61. (go to abstract).

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V, LeTourneau, P. M., Et-Touhami, M., 2002, Astronomically calibrated GPTS for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic based on the Newark Hartford and Taylorsville basins of Eastern North America. in McRoberts, C. A. and Olsen, P. E., (eds.), Triassic-Jurassic Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark, and Hartford basins (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts), Eastern United States, 2nd Field Workshop, June 7th-12th, 2002, Abstracts with Programs, p. 13. (download pdf)

Olsen, P. E., and Rainforth, E. C., 2002, Continental tetrapod ichnofaunal sucession and turnover in the Newark Supergroup (?Middle-Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic, eastern North America) and temporally equivalent strata in Morocco. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, no. 3, supp., p. 93A-94A. (go to abstract).

2001:

Et-Touhami, M., Olsen, P. E.. Puffer, J., 2001, Lithostratigraphic and biostratigrpahic evidence for breif and synchroneus Early Mesozoic basalt eruption over the Maghreb (Northwest Africa). Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 82, no. 20, p. S276. (go to abstract)

Machlus, M., Olsen, P. E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2001, Milankovitch cyclicity in the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado and Wyoming. Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 82, no. 47, Abstract U12A-0005, p. F3. (go to abstract)

Olsen, P.E., 2001, Grand cycles of the Milankovitch band. Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 82, no. 47, Abstract U11A-11, p. F2. (go to abstract)

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 2000, Cyclostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic constraints on the duration of the CAMP. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 82, no. 20, p. S276. (go to abstract)

Olsen, P. E. and Rainforth, E., C., 2001, The ascent of the dinosaurs: ecological release after the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction in continental environments. Earth System Processes 2001, Progammes with Abstracts, Geological Society of America and The Geological Society of London, p. 93. (go to abstract)

Olsen, P. E., Schneider, V., Sues, H.-D., Peyer, K, M., and Carter, J. G., 2001, Biotic provinciality of the Late Triassic equatorial humid zone. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 2, p. A-27. (go to abstract)

Peyer, K., Carter, J. G., Sues, H.-D., and Olsen, P. E., 2001, An articulated poposaurid rauisuchian from the Triassic Deep River Basin, North Carolina. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 2, p. A-27. (go to abstract)

Sues, P. E., Olsen, P. E., Carter, J. G., and Peyer, K., 2001, A remarkable Triassic tetrapod assemblage from the Deep River basin of North Carolina. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no. 2, A.-27. (go to abstract)

2000:

Kent, D. V. and Olsen, P. E., 2000, Paleomagnetism of the Triassic-Jurassic Blomidon Formation in the Fundy basin: implications for Early Mesozoic tropical climate gradients. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 1, p. A-20.

Olsen, P. E., 2000, Cyclostratigraphic controls on the duration and correlation of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction and associated basalts. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 1, p. A-63.

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 2000, Climatic, biotic, and tectonic, pole-to-pole transect of Triassic-Jurassic Pangea. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no. 1, p. A-63.

Olsen, P. E., Koeberl, C., Huber, H., Montanari, A., and Fowell, S J, 2000, Geochemical and Biological Evidence for a Catastrophic end to the Triassic. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 81, no. 48,  p. F1325. (go to abstract)

Gilfillian, A. M. and Olsen, P. E., 2000, The coelacanth Diplurus longicaudatus as the origin of the large coprolites occurring in the Triassic-Jurassic lacustrine strata of Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.32, no. 1, p. A-20.

1999:

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 1999, Comparison of the tectonostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Triassic-Jurassic Fundy (Nova Scotia) and Argana (Morocco) rift basins. Deuxièm Réunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias, GMPT-2, Marrakech, 24-26 novembre 1999, Résumés, (Groupe Marocain Permien et du Trias, Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences - Semlalia, Département de Gélogie), p. 32.

Olsen, P. E., Sues, H. D., and Kent, D. V., 1999, Constraining the timing and magnitude of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction in continental ecosystems.

Kent, D. V. and Olsen, P. E., 1999, Search for the Triassic/Jurassic long normal and the J1 cusp. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 80, no. 46, p. F306.

Olsen, P. E., Fairfield, H. M., and Hemming, S., 1999, Stratigraphic and Geochemical Evidence of the Past Distribution of CAMP Basalts. . Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 80, no. 17, p. S318. (go to abstract)

Withjack, M. O., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1999, Relative Timing of Eastern North America Magmatism, Rifting, Drifting, and Inversion. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 80, no. 17, p. S319.

Olsen, P. E., LeTourneau, P. M., Kent, D. V., and Withjack, M. O., 1999, Comparative Tectonostratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic Fundy (Nova Scotia) and Argana (Morocco) Rift Basins. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 2, p. A-59.

1998:

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 1998, The rise of dinosaurian dominance through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic: tetrapod footprint evidence from eastern North America. The Dinofest Symposium, Abstracts, p. 43.

Olsen, P. E., Sues, H.-D., Rainforth, E., Hartline, B., Szajna, M., 1998b, New Tetrapod Bone Assemblage near Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Southeastern PA (late Rhaetian, Newark Basin. Dinofest Symposium, Abstracts, addendum.

Kent, D. V. and Olsen, P. E., 1998, Astronomically calibrated geomagnetic polarity time-scale for the Late Triassic. In. Bachmann, G. H., Borg, G., Haubold, H., Heinisch, H., Lempp, C., Pñllmann, H., and Wycisk, P. (eds.) Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, Abstracts, Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, B, Geologie, Palaeontology, Minerologie, v. 5, p. 88-89.

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 1998, High-resolution early Mesozoic pangean climatic, tectonic, and biotic transect. In. Bachmann, G. H., Borg, G., Haubold, H., Heinisch, H., Lempp, C., Pñllmann, H., and Wycisk, P. (eds.) Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, Abstracts, Hallesches Jahrbuch für Geowissenschaften, B, Geologie, Palaeontology, Minerologie, v. 5, p. 128-130.

LeTourneau, P. M., Huber, P., Olsen, P. E., 1998, Revised correlation and biochronology of the Late Triassic Richmond and Taylorsville basins, Virginia. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 4, p. 24.

1997:

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Fowell, S. J., 1997, Causal? association of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction and Pangean flood basalt; a matter of timing. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 78, no. 46, Suppl., p. 721.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., and LeTourneau, P. M., 1997, High resolution climatic transect across Triassic-Jurassic Pangea. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 6, p. 240.

Schlische, R. W., Withjack, M. O., and Olsen, P. E., 1997, Relationship among rifting, inversion, and Early Jurassic age eastern North American magmatism. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, no. 1, p. 77.

Sues, H.-D., Baird, H.-D., and Olsen, P. E., 1997, Procolophonidae (Amniota: Parareptilia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Supplement to No. 3, p. 79A.

1996:

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., 1996, Precession cycle frequency doubling at the equator of Triassic Pangea. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, n. 46, Suppl., p. 301.

Fowell, S. J. and Olsen, P. E., 1996, Palynofloral diversity and provinciality in the Late Triassic Newark Supergroup. in LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Geoscience: Abstracts. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Reports 1, p. 10.

Kent, D. V. and Olsen. P. E., 1996, A integrated magnetostratigraphic and paleolatitudinal framework for the Late Triassic Newark Supergroup. in LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Geoscience: Abstracts. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Reports 1, p. 21.

Kent, D. V. and Olsen. P. E., 1996, Statistical Properties of an astronomically tuned geomagnetic polarity time scale for the Late Triassic. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, no. 46, p. F171.

Kent, D. V. and Olsen. P. E., 1996, Paleomagnetism of the Late Triassic Dan River/Danville Basin section; interbasin correlation of continental sediments and a test of the tectonic coherence of Newark rift basins in eastern North America. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, no. 17, Suppl., p. 83-84.

LeTourneau, P. M., Olsen, P. E., and Kent, D. V., 1996, The stratigraphy and structure of the buried late Triassic Taylorsville basin, Virginia and Maryland: Results of recent subsurface investigations. in LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Geoscience: Abstracts. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Reports 1, p. 22-23.

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., 1996, Regional and global climatic implications of high-resolution astronomically calibrated paleomagnetic polarity time scale for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. in LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Geoscience: Abstracts. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Reports 1, p. 33-34.

Olsen, P. E., Norell, M. A., Sues, H. -D., and McDonald, N. G., 1996, Discovery of a small archosaur skull from the lower New Haven Formation of the Hartford basin, Connecticut, USA (Late Triassic, Newark Supergroup). in LeTourneau, P. M. and Olsen, P. E. (eds.), Aspects of Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin Geoscience: Abstracts. Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Reports 1, p. 35-36.

1995:

Olsen, P. E., 1995, Climate change and the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinctions. EOS, supplement, v. 76, no. 17, p. S186.

Tseng, H-Y., Gao, G, Onstott, T. C., Person, M., Swenson, J., Boone, D., Balkwill, D. Colwell. R., Griffin, T., Kieft, T., McKinley, J., Stevens, T., Nierzwicki-Bauer, S., Phelps, T., White, D.C., Ringelberg, D., Malinconico, M. A., Olsen, P. E., Burruss, R.C., and Miller, D., 1995, Subsurface bacteria in a Triassic basin: Fluid-flow model constraints. EOS, supplement, v. 76, no. 17, p. S150.

Fraser, N. G., Grimaldi, D. A., Olsen, P. E., and Axsmith, B. J., 1995, The fauna and flora of the Solite Quarry: a spectacular Late Triassic fossil lagerstaetten. Geological Society of America, Abracts with Programs, v. 27., p. 45.

Olsen, P. E., 1995, A new approach for recognizing track makers. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27., p. 86. download .pdf

Ackermann, R. V., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1995, Evaporite dissolution and associated collapse features of the Fundy basin: paleoenvironmental implications. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 1, p. 25.

Ackermann, R. V., Schlische, R. W., Olsen, P. E., 1995, Synsedimentary collapse of portions of the lower Blomidon Formation (Late Triassic), Fundy rift basin, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 32n. 11, p. 1965-1976.

1994:

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1994, Summary of the Newark Basin Coring Project: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1994, Results of the Newark Basin Coring Project; a cyclostratigraphically calibrated geomagnetic polarity time scale for the Late Triassic. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 7, p. 336.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1994, Summary of the Newark Basin Coring Project. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union.

Olsen, P. E. and Johansson, A. K., 1994, Relationship between evolution of plants, consumers, and global climate: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology.

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D.V., 1994, Overview of paleoclimatic results from the Newark Rift basin drilling project: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology.

Olsen, P. E. and Withjack, M. O., 1994, Inversion during the early stages of seafloor spreading; seismic and field evidence from the Bay of Fundy, Canada. American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. 228.

Good, S. C., Yenik, L. A., Olsen, P. E., and McDonald, N. G., 1994, Non-marine molluscs from the Scots Bay Formation, Newark Supergroup (Early Jurassic), Nova Scotia: taxonomic assessment and paleoecologic significance. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 3, p. 20. (download pdf)

1993:

Ackermann, R. V., Schlische, R. W., Olsen, P. E., 1993, Triassic buried interstratal karst, Fundy Basin, Canada. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 69

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Fowell, S., and Fedosh, M. S., 1993, Cyclostratigraphic time scale for the Late Triassic and earliest Jurassic based on continuous coring of the Newark basin in New Jersey. in: Lucas, S. G. and Morales, M., 1993, (eds.) The Nonmarine Triassic, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin No. 3, p. 122.

Kent, D. V., Witte, W. K., and Olsen, P. E., 1993, A complete Late Triassic magnetostratigraphy from the Newark basin: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 74, no. 16 (Supp.), p. 109.

Kent, D. V., Witte, W. K., and Olsen, P. E., 1993, Late Triassic to earliest Jurassic geomagnetic polarity sequence from the Newark continental rift basin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Annual Meeting Abstracts, p. 128.

Ackermann, R. V., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1993, Triassic buried interstratal karst, Fundy basin, Canada: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 69.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, A high-resolution Late Triassic-Early Jurassic time scale: implications for mass extinctions. Geological Association of Canada, Program and Abstracts 1993, p. A-79.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, Rift basin patterns and processes: A time for remodelling? American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, The terrestrial plant and herbivore arms race - A major control of Phanerozoic atmospheric CO2? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 2 , p. 71. (Go to a facimile abstract)

Olsen, P. E. and Johansson, A. K., 1993, Relationship between evolution of plants, consumers, and global climate. SEMP meeting. (Go to a facimile abstract)

1992:

El Tabakh, M. E., Schreiber, B. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, The nature of the transition between the Lockatong-Passaic formations of the Newark Supergroup (Newark Basin, New Jersey): a petrologic view: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 24, no. 3, p. 18.

El Tabakh, M. E., Schreiber, B. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Unexpected evaporites within the terrestrial strata of the Passaic Formation, Newark Basin, New Jersey: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76, no. 8, p. 1273-1274.

El Tabakh, M. E., Schreiber, B. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Distribution of evaporites and authigenic minerals in the Newark Supergroup (Triassic-Jurassic), Newark Basin, New Jersey: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76.

Fowell, S. J., Cornet, B., and Olsen, P. E., 1992. Palynomorph assemblages from cyclic sedimentary sequences of Late Triassic age. 8th International Palynological Congress, Program and Abstracts, p. 48.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Newark continental rift basin coring project. International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan, Abstracts, v. 1, p. 30.

Olsen. P. E., 1992, Modulation of lacustrine ecosystems by tectonics, climate, and evolution. International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Japan, Abstracts, v. 2, p. 306.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D.V., Reynolds, D., Cornet, B., and Witte, W. K., 1992, Evolutive spectral analysis of 24 million years of early Mesozoic orbital forcing from the lacustrine Newark rift basin cores. International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Abstracts, v. 1, p. 90.

Olsen, P. E., Withjack, M. O., and Schlische, R. W., 1992, Inversion as an integral part of rifting: an outcrop perspective from the Fundy basin, eastern North America: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 73, p. 562.

Reynolds, D. J. and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Seismic reflection and well log records of climate change in a non-marine basin: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 73, no. 43 (Supp.), p. 71.

Withjack, M. O., Olsen, P. E., and Link, M. H., 1992, Rifting and Inversion in the Bay of Fundy, Canada: a seismic perspective: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 73, p. 563.

1991:

Kent, D. V., Olsen, P. E., and Witte, W. K., 1991, Late Triassic magnetostratigraphy from the Newark rift basin coring project: EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 72, no. 17 (Supp.), p. 101.

Olsen, P. E., Fowell, S., Cornet, B., and Witte, W. K., 1991, Calibration of a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Time Scale Based on Orbitally Induced Lake Cycles. International Geological Congress, Abstracts 1990, 2, 2-547-548.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., and Cornet, B., 1991, Thirty million years of orbitally forced climate change from continental coring of the Newark rift basin: EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 72, no. 17 (Supp.), p. 269.

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Anatomy of a rift system: Triassic-Jurassic basins of eastern North America: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 75, no. 3, p. 667.

Schlische, R. W., Olsen, P. E., Cornet, and Silvestri, S. M., 1991, Preliminary analysis of Newark basin drilling project cores: Implications for basin tectonics: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 23, no. 5, p. 251.

Silvestri, S. M., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Analysis of deformed tetrapod footprints from the Jacksonwald syncline of the Newark basin: Implications for the Triassic-Jurassic extinctions: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 23, no. 1, p. 127.

Withjack, M. O., Link, M. H., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Structure, stratigraphy, and climate of the Mesozoic Chignecto subbasin, Bay of Fundy, Canada: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 75, p. 695.

1990:

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1990, Tectonic development of the Newark Rift basin: implications for the growth and evolution of half graben and their boundary faults: EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 71, no. 43 (Supp.), p. 1606.

Reynolds, D. J., Olsen, P. E., Stechler, M. S., and Burgess, C.F., 1990, Structural framework of the Newark basin, EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 71, no. 43 (Supp.), p. 1605-1606.

Sues, H.-D. and Olsen, P. E., 1990, A Triassic Synapsid-dominated tetrapod assemblage of Gondwanan affinities from the Richmond basin of Virginia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 10 (supp. to no. 3), p. 45A.

1989:

Padian, K., and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Baird's two axioms of vertebrate paleontology. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Newsletter, 1989.

Olsen, P. E., Cornet, B., and McDonald, 1989, Cyclostratigraphy of the Chicopee Fish Bed and adjacent strata: implications for the palynostratigraphy of the Portland Formation (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 56.

Silvestri, SM. and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Ichnostratigraphy of the Jacksonwald Syncline: the last 7 million years of the Triassic. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 66.

Witte, W. K., Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Pre- and post-folding magnetization of the Late Triassic Passaic Formation sediment is southeast Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 76-77.

1988:

Olsen, P. E., 1988, Tectonic, climatic, and biological modulation of lake sediments in the Newark Supergroup. AAPG Symposium, Snowbird, p. 12.

Olsen, P. E. and Cornet, B., 1988, The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in eastern North America. Global Catastrophes in Earth History. Lunar and Planetary Institute - National Academy of Sciences, Symposium, Snowbird, p. 135-136.

Olsen, P. E. and Cornet, B., 1988, Evidence for early Mesozoic mass extinctions in eastern North American rift deposits (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup. IGCP Project 199, Rare Events in Geology, Berrichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Wein), v. 15, p. 20.

Olsen, P. E. and Fedosh, M. S., 1988, Duration of the early Mesozoic extrusive igneous episode in eastern North America determined by use of Milankovitch-type lake level cycles. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., v. 20, no. 1, v. 59.

Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1988, New quantitative stratigraphic models of rifts based on orbitally induced lake level cycles (E. Mesozoic, Eastern North America): AAPG Bull., v. 72, p. 231-232.

Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1988, Quantitative rift basin evolution: application of extensional basin filling model to early Mesozoic rifts, E. North America: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 20, 59.

Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1988, Unraveling the rules of rift basins: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 20, A123.

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1988, A model for the structural evolution of the Newark Basin. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 20(1), 68.

Silvestri, S, and Olsen, P. E., 1988 Uniquely preserved trackway of the reptile ichnotaxon Rhynchosauroides hyperbates Baird from the Late Triassic of Arcola, Pa., associated forms, and significance to Carnian-Norian tetrapod extinctions. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 20(1), 70.

1987:

Olsen, P. E. and Schlische, R. W., 1987, Paired half-graben, crestal collapse graben - examples from the Early Mesozoic of Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., v. 19, no. (7), p. 794. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1987, Comparison of growth structures in dip-slip vs. strike-slip dominated rifts: Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., v. 15, no. (7), p. 833. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

1986:

Olsen, P. E., 1986, How did the small ornithischian trackmaker of Anomoepus walk? First International Symposium Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.

Olsen, P. E. and Baird, D., 1986, Milford revisited: with notes on a new ichnofaunule from the Norian of New Jersey. First International Symposium Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.

Olsen, P. E., Shubin, N. H., and Anders, M. H., 1986, New vertebrate data from eastern North America (Newark Supergroup) suggest a catastrophic end to the Triassic. S.E.P.M. Abstracts, 1986.

Pratt, L. M., Burruss, R. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1986, Petroleum generation and migration in Lower Jurassic sequences, Hartford Basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Bull., v. 70, m. 5, 635.

1985:

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Biological constraints on the formation of lacustrine microlaminated sediments: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 14(1), 56.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Van Houten cycles: the modal cycle type for the Lacustrine portions of the Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup, eastern North America: In M. Arthur and others (eds.) Cycles and Periodicity in Geologic Events, Evolution and Stratigraphy, Dept. Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton. 26.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Significance of the great lateral extent of thin units in the Newark Supergroup (Early Mesozoic, Eastern North America) (Abst.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 69, no. 9, p. 1444.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Control of organic-rich lacustrine strata by Milankovitch- type cyclic climate: a new hydrocarbon exploration strategy. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, no. 7, p. 681.

Smoot, J. P., Letourneau, P. M., Turner-Peterson, C. E., Olsen, P. E., 1985, Sandstone and conglomerate shoreline deposits in Triassic-Jurassic Newark and Hartford basins of Newark Supergroup. AAPG Bulletin, v. 69, no. 9, p. 1448.

1983:

Baird, D., Olsen, P. E. 1983, Late Triassic herptofauna from the Wolfville Fm. of the Minas Basin (Fundy Basin), Nova Scotia, Can. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 3, p. 122.

Olsen, P. E. , 1983, On the non-correlation of the Newark Supergroup by fossil fishes; biogeographic, structural, and sedimentological implications. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, n. 3, p. 121.

Olsen, P. E., 1983, Relationship between biostratigraphic subdivisions and igneous activity in the Newark Supergroup. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 15, no. 2, p. 93.

1982:

Olsen, P. E., 1982, Lockatong Fm. detrital cycles (Late Triassic, Newark Basin, N.J. and Pa.), giant lakes, and ecosystem efficiency. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, no. 1-2, p. 70.

Olsen, P. E., Baird, D., 1982, Early Jurassic vertebrate assemblages from the McCoy Brook Fm. of the Fundy Group (Newark Supergroup, Nova Scotia, Can.). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 14, no. 1-2, p. 70.

1981:

Manspeizer, W., McGowan, M., and Olsen. P. E., 1981, Hydrocarbon occurrences in Triassic-Jurassic lacustrine deposits, Newark rift basin, Atlantic passive margin. AAPG Bulletin, v. 65, no. 9, p. 1667-1667.

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