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

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Abstracts

2024:

Hudgins, M., Ikeda, M., Olsen, P. E., Schaller, M., 2024, An ocean acidification even linked to the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province determined through direct measurements of CO2 from fluid inclusions in deep sea cherts during the end-Triassic Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, no. 1, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024NE-397766, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2024NE/webprogram/Paper397766.html.

Okoko, G., Pahwa, A., Goldberg, D., Oldberg, D. S, Kolawole, F., Kinney, S. and Olsen, P. E., 2024, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province basalts: Core-log correlation, integration and CO2 storage opportunities. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 56, Joint Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, abstract 399490, submitted.

2023:

Bebo, C. J., Tibbits, D. M., Chang, C., Pinnella, M., Prabhakar, L., Danyi, C., Witkowski, R., Slibeck, B. B., RoyChowdhury, A., Olsen, P. E., Kinney, S., 2023, Mapping the distribution of geogenic contaminants in bedrock from Colorado Plateau cores using continuous X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Abstract H53N-1504 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1357838

Chang, C., Tibbits, D., Kinney, S., Pinnella, M., Bebo, C. J., Prabhakar, L., Danyi, C., Witkowski, R., Slibeck, B. B., Yazzie, O. W., Lepre, C. J., RoyChowdhury, A., Kent, D. V., Olsen, P. E., 2023, High resolution computed tomography scans of cores from the Colorado Plateau Coring Project Phase 1: Preliminary results. Abstract MR41B-0077 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1431936

Drzewiecki, P., LeTourneau, P., Olsen, P., McDonald, N. G., 2022, Influence of Early Jurassic post-extinction microbial communities on the preservation of dinosaur tracks: Hartford Basin, Connecticut. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 55(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023SE-385631. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023SE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/385631

Hudgins, M. N., Ikeda, M., Olsen, P. E., Schaller, M. F., 2023, Direct measurements of CO2 from fluid inclusions in peep sea cherts link ocean acidification to the emplacement of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province during the end-Triassic extinction. Abstract PP32A-03 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1397491

 

Kent, D. V., Olsen, P. E., Wang, H., Schaller, M. F., Et-Touhami, M., 2023, Tempo of events inferred from short reverse polarity Subchron E23r in sediments and records of secular variation in lavas point to intense volcanic winters from initial pulse of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) lavas punctuating greenhouse world as trigger for the terrestrial end-Triassic extinction (ETE). Abstract GP11C-0483 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1301191

 

Kinney, S., Chang, C., Tibbits, D., Setera, K., Cannato, J., Danyi, C., Galletta, A., Margulis-Ohnuma, M., Geraldes, M., McCracken. R., Pinnella, M., Prabhakar, L., Slibeck. B. B., Stempkovski, I., Witkowski, R., Browning, J. V., Godfrey, L., Miller, K., Olsen, P. E., 2023, Legacy continental records from the rifted Eastern North American Margin (ENAM) are a community resource providing unparalleled opportunities for study of the interplay between the solid Earth, climate, biotic evolution and the Solar System dynamics during the Mesozoic. Abstract T12A-06 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1417191

 

Kligman, B., Villari, J., Hughes, K. R., Olsen, P. E., Montenengro, J, Park Boush, L., Reichelt, T., Pritchard, A. C., 2023, A new lacustrine margin vertebrate assemblage from the Early Jurassic Waterfall Formation of Virginia, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 249-250. (download .pdf)

 

Naslund, H., Yen, T., Olsen, P., 2023, A complete section through the central part of the differentiated Palisades intrusion has been sampled at a depth of 1527-2006 m in SE New York: Evidence for magma chamber convection and interstitial melt migration. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 55(6), 2023, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-394049. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023AM/webprogram/Paper394049.html

 

Olsen, P., 2023, Orbitally-paced latest Triassic-Early Jurassic meromictic lake deposits of Eastern North America – Their sunspot-modulated varves, turbidites, and supereruption ashes. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 55(6), 2023, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-390385. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/390385

 

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Et-Touhami, M., 2023, Identification of spurious hiatuses between lavas of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) diminishes the number of eruptions but greatly amplifies their possible environmental effects. Abstract V51E-0098 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1304713

 

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Kinney, S. T., Lepre, C. J., Tibbits, D., Chang, C., and Bebo, C., 2023, Milankovitch cyclicity in the fluvial Late Triassic Chinle Formation of the Colorado Plateau (Arizona, USA). Abstract PP21D-1337 presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1340531

Olsen, P., Kent, D., Lepre, C., Kinney, S., RoyChowdhury, A., Chang, C., Tibbetts, D., Bebo, C., 2023, Searching for Manicouagan: astrochronological predictions and tests of alternative age models in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation [Colorado Plateau Coring Project-1 (CPCP-1), Arizona, USA]. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, EGU23-2476, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2476.

Olsen, P., Kligman, J. B., Villari, J., Slibeck, B., Hughes, K., Pritchard, A., 2023, Latest Triassic and Early Jurassic continental vertebrate assemblages of the Culpeper Rift Basin (Virginia, USA) in high-resolution temporal and environmental perspectives. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 329. (download .pdf)

Olsen, P., Park Boush, L., Drzewiecki, P., Kinney, S., Schaller, M., Stueeken, E., Reichgelt, T., Ross, M., Whiteside, J., 2023, Testing the role of CAMP volcanic winters as a main driver of Triassic-Jurassic continental ecosystem change with the proposed DinoDrill project (Hartford Basin, USA). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 55(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023SE-385823. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023SE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/385823

Olsen, P., Slibeck, B., Sues, H.-D., 2023, The dinosaur that came in from the cold: the oldest definitive ornithischian dinosaurs and origin of their abrupt appearance. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 55(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023SE-385820. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023SE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/385820

Olsen, P., Suarez, C., Roychowdhury, A., Krijgsman, W., Becenti, L., Kinney, S., Mundil, R., Muttoni, G., Rasmussin, C., Ruhl, M., Schaller, M., Vajda, V., Wang, B., Whiteside, J., Falkowski, P., Vetriani, C., Fang, Yanan, Geissman, J., Higgins, J., Jaret, S., J., Dennis, D., Kolawole, F., Kuerschner, W., Lepre, C., MacLennan, S., Myrbo, A., Santiago Ramos, D., Sha, J., Zakharova, N., 2023, Colorado Plateau Coring Project Phase 2 (CPCP-2): A Continuous Record of Triassic-Jurassic Continental Environmental Change. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 55(6), 2023, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-392351. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/392351

 

Pritchard, A., Kligman, B, Olsen, P., Stevens, M., Sues, H.D., Treado, L., Weems, R., LeTourneau, P., 2023, A new vertebrate-bearing locality from the Carnian-Norian (Late Triassic) of Virginia (Newark Supergroup, Taylorsville Basin). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 354 (download .pdf)

 

Schaller, M. F., Olsen, P. E., Wright, J. D., Kent, D. V., 2023, A gradual increase in pCO2 punctuated by cold tropical temperatures points to volcanic winters as the trigger for the abrupt End-Triassic extinction. Abstract PP33D-1536A presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1394141

Slibeck, B., Milnar, A. R. C., Olsen, P., 2023, Early dinosaur-dominated communities from high-relief, shallow, lake margin environments in low-latitude (Late Triassic–Early Jurassic, New Jersey and Utah, USA). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. (download .pdf)

Slibeck, B., Olsen, P., 2023, Deciphering theropod-dominated communities in latest Triassic ichnofossil assemblages (Newark Basin, NJ). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 55(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2023SE-385875. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023SE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/385875

Tibbits, D., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Bebo, C. R., Pinnella, M., Witkowski, R., Prabhakar, L., Danyi, C., Basu, A., RoyChowdhury, A. Olsen, P. E., 2023, Leveraging scanning X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography to map density changes along cores from the Colorado Plateau Coring Project Phase 1: Implications for early Mesozoic climate and geogenic groundwater contamination. Abstract MR33A-08, presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1434671

 

Whiteside, J. P., Schaller, M. S., Olsen, P. E., 2023, New perspectives on an old challenge: A novel organic approach to estimating ancient atmospheric CO2 from lakes. Abstract PP33D-1550, presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1420835

 

2022:

 

Bebo, C., Tibbits, D., Kinney, S., Slibeck, B. B., Chang, C., Roychowhury, A., Olsen, P., 2022, How are geogenic contaminants affecting ground water on the Colorado Plateau? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-381854. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/381854.

 

Chang, C., Kinney, S., Fang, Y., Olsen, P. E., Sha, J. 2022, Lake ice rafted debris in deep time lacustrine archives: A new proxy for ancient continental freezing. Abstract PP52A-02 presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 Dec. download a .pdf of this abstract

 

Douglass, A., Olsen, P. E., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Slibeck, B. B., 2022, Scenes from the Sapropels: Revealing Orbital Forcings and Climate in the Mediterranean over the last 500 kyr with Image and XRF Analysis. Abstract PP25D-0897: presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 Dec. download a .pdf of this abstract

 

Douglass, A., Olsen, P. E., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Slibeck, B. B., 2022, Using image analysis and XRF to constrain orbital forcing and climate in the Mediterranean Basin over the last 500,000 years using XRF geochemistry. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-382349, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/382349

 

Geraldes Vega, M.,  Werner, A., Olsen, P. E., 2022, Milankovitch forcing in Jurassic lacustrine stratigraphy in the lower Portland Formation of the Hartford Basin. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-377540, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/377540.   

 

Kinney, S., Chang, C., Tibbits, D. M., Bebo, C. R., Cannato, J., Danyi, C., Galletta, A., Lee, B., McCracken, R., Pinnella, M., Slibeck, B. B., Prabhakar, L., Stempkovski, I., Witkowski, R., Browning, J. V., Miller, K., RoyChowdhury, A., Olsen, P. E., 2022, Development of high-resolution paleoclimate dataset from whole rock geochemistry of two continuously cored Mesozoic continental sequences. Abstract PP25D-0899: presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting, 12-16 Dec. download a .pdf of this abstract

 

Landwehrs, J., Wagreich, M., Feulner, G., Willeit, M., Whiteside, J. H., and Olsen, P. E., 2022, Astronomical climate pacing in a model framework for Late Triassic lake level cycles, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May 2022, EGU22-3744, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3744,

 

Margulis-Ohnuma, M., Chang, C., Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., 2022, Towards a Carnian astrochronology in the paleoequatorial richmond rift basin (VA) using XRF geochemistry. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-377558 https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/377558.

 

Olsen, P. E., Chang, C., Slibeck, B. B., Tibbits, D. M., Kinney, S., 2022, Orbitally-paced dust/loess modulates accumulation rates in Late Triassic lacustrine strata of the Central Pangean Newark Rift Basin, Eastern North America. AGU Fall Meeting 2022 Abstract, https://eppro01.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=AGU22, poster: poster.pdf

 

Olsen, P., Kent, D., Reichgelt, T., Kinney, S. & Slibeck, B. B., 2022, Mapping the Gettysburg Triassic-Jurassic Rift Basin (Pennsylvania, USA); Implications of preliminary observations on stratigraphy, facies, and cyclicity to tectonic development of eastern North American rifts. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 54(3), paper 41-6, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022NE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/374666, doi: 10.1130/abs/2022NE-374666

 

Olsen, P., Kinney, S., Chang, C., Schaller, M., Whiteside, J., and Kent, D., 2022, Eccentricity modulation of weathering and accumulation rates: non-intuitive, empirical relationship suggests links between orbital pacing and pCO2, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May 2022, EGU22-10720, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10720,

 

Olsen, P., Sha, J., Fang, Y., Chang, C., Whiteside, J. H., Kinney, S., Sues, H.-D., Kent, D., Vajda, V., Slibeck, B. B., Lampert, A., 2022, Unique paleoarctic vertebrate assemblages from Late Triassic and Early Jurassic lacustrine strata of the Junggar Basin, (NW China). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-383508. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/383508.

 

Olsen, P. E., Stueeken, E. E., Sean Kinney, S., Schaller, M. F., Whiteside. J. H., Chang, C., 2022, Evidence of volcanic sulfate aerosols from two Early Jurassic eruptions of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP, Eastern North America). Abstract V52C-0020: presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting. 12-16 Dec. download a .pdf of this abstract

 

Olsen, P., Whiteside, J. H., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Slibeck, B., 2020, Early dinosaur adaptations to cold explains their Triassic High-Latitude bias and global expansion through the End-Triassic Mass Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 54(5), doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-383222. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2022AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/383222.

 

Slibeck, B. B, Chang, C., Olsen, P. E., 2022, Sauropod tracks or mud bubble fountains? -- High resolution photogrammetry providesinsights into formation of enigmatic sedismentary tructures. Abstract EP12D-1060: presented at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting. 12-16 Dec. download a .pdf of this abstract

 

2021:

 

Avery, K., Lepre, C. J., Change, C., Olsen, P. E., 2021, ED35A-0591 - What can the geochemical variations in stromatolite layers tell us about climate variability in eastern Africa? Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/966034

 

Brody, P., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Olsen, P., 2021, ED35A-0563 - Evidence of a past earthquake or post depositional liquefaction? Identifying penecontemporaneous melanges in the geologic record. Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/988637

 

DaSilva, T., Chang, C., Olsen, P. E., 2021, ED35A-0586 - Quantitative analysis of modern fish kills and fossil fish: Algae rafting in the fossil record. Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/959635

 

Fox, C., Cui, X., Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Summons, R. E. Grice, K, 2021, PP12A-01 - Biomarkers, compound-specific isotopes and their applications in understanding the carbon isotope record during the end-Triassic mass extinction event (Invited). Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/956103

 

Lepre, C., Yazzie, O., and Olsen, P., 2021, Orbital pacing of redox cycles suggested by red bed color of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Arizona. EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19-30 Apr 2021, EGU21-3696, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3696, 2021

 

Margulis-Ohnuma, M., Whiteside, J. and Olsen, P., 2021, Strong inclination pacing of climate in Late Triassic low latitudes revealed by the Earth-Saturn tilt cycle. EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19-30 Apr 2021, EGU21-6638, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6638, 2021

 

Olsen, P. E., Huber, P., MacDonald, N. G., Kent, D. V., 2021, Astrochronology and correlation of Jurassic strata of the Deerfield rift basin, (Massachusetts, USA) in relation to major dinosaur footprint-bearing levels. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. vol. 53(1), doi: 10.1130/abs/2021NE-361893. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2021NE/webprogram/Paper361893.html

 

Olsen, P. E. and Kinney, S., 2021, PP45F-10 - Orbital pacing of Early Jurassic age lacustrine sequences revealed with multiple age models:the Towaco and East Berlin Formations of the Newark and Hartford rift basins, eastern North America. Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1001964

Traore, O., Olsen, P., Kinney, S., Chang, C., 2021, ED35A-0568 - What can inherited zircons tell us about the sources of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province and its transit through the Earth’s crust? Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/959658

 

Trebian, F., Kinney, S., Chang, C., Whiteside, J. H., Olsen. P. E., 2021, ED35A-0572 - Translation of orbital pacing to climate at a transitory interval of low CO2 during the dawn of the dinosaurs. Presented at 2021 Fall Meeting, AGU, 13-17 Dec, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/959689

 

2020:

 

Baez, J. R., Olsen, P. E., Kinney, S. T., Chang, C., Marsh, A. D., Parker, W., 2020, Did the Manicouagan impact cause a biotic turnover 215.5 Million years ago? Constraints from airfall and detrital zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS Geochronology. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 52(6), 10-13, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-357835. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/357835.

 

Becenti, L., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Olsen, P. E., Effective outreach strategies for reaching students in the Navajo Nation. ED017-07, presented at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting, 7-11 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/738851.

 

Chang, C., Olsen, P. E., 2020, Strange attractors in Lagerstatten - bugs on a stick and rafting fish. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 52(2), Paper No. 56-2, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020SE-345463, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020SE/webprogram/Paper345463.html.

 

Chen, E., MacLennan, S., Kinney, S., Chang, C., Olsen, P., Sha, J., Fang, Y., Liu, J., Schoene, B., 2020, A new look at the Lujiatun: dinosaur attrition in burrows, not a Cretaceous Pompeii and not a shoreline to the Jianshangou lake. V031-0002, presented at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting, 7-11 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/733612.

 

Davis, C., Chang, C., Bostick, B. C., Patterson, K., Olsen, P. E., 2020, Does arsenic and uranium in the bedrock affect water quality on the Navajo Nation? SY020-0009, presented at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting, 7-11 Dec., https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/740742.

 

Davis, C., Chang, C., Bostick, B., Olsen, P. E. 2020, Does arsenic and uranium in the bedrock affect water quality? 2020 SACNAS -- The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference October 12-24, Abstracts. download abstract.

 

Kinney, S. T., MacLennan, S. A. Setera, J., Schoene, B., Vantongeren, J., Strauss, J. V., Bradley, D.,, Hart, A., Town, C. F., Olsen, P. E., 2020,, Long-lived and localized post-orogenic magmatism on the eastern North American margin: insights from zircon U-Pb geochronology. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 52(2), Paper No.14-9, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020SE-345449, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020SE/webprogram/Paper345449.html.

 

Lampert, A., Fang, Y., Olsen, P., Kinney, S., Chang, C., MacLennan S., Sha, J., 2020, Zircon LA-ICP-MS ages constrain possible Jurassic true polar wander event, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, NW China. T009-0013, presented at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting, 7-11 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/733243.

 

Olsen, P. E., Chang, C., Kinney, S. T., Fang, Y., Sha, J., 2020, Simple interpretation of lacustrine Triassic-Jurassic Konservat Lagersatten of the rift basins of eastern North America with comments on the Yanliao and Jehol biotas of China. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 52(2), Paper No. 52-5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2020SE-345471 https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020SE/webprogram/Paper345471.html.

 

Olsen, P. E., Laskar, J., Kent, D. V., 2020, Implications of the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP) 1 & 2 to astrochronology, the Geological Orrery, and empirical mapping of Solar System chaos. PP037-0013,
presented at 2020 AGU Fall Meeting, 7-11 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/730624.

 

Olsen, P., Sha, J., Maclennan, S., Kinney, S., Fang, Y., Chang, C., Kuhn, T., Fu, R., Kent, D., Schone, B., 2020, Monster polar shift, shifts back: paleoclimate and CA-ID-TIMS evidence from northern China, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4-8 May 2020, EGU2020-20827, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20827.

 

Yazzie, O., Lepre, C., Olsen, P., 2020, What can the variability of hematite tell us about the climate of the Triassic? 2020 SACNAS -- The National Diversity in STEM Virtual Conference October 12-24, Abstracts. download abstract.

 

2019:

 

Chang, C., Kinney, S. T.. Fang, Y. , Cho, S. A., Lee, M., Sha, J., Olsen, P. E., 2019, Comparative paleo-limnology of rafting processes in Late Triassic lacustrine records. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, ISSN 0016-7592 doi: 10.1130/abs/2019NE-32857 . (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019NE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/328547)

 

Chang, C., Kinney, S., Towbin, H., Ye, C., Joyse, K., Fang, Y., Sha, J., Olsen, P. E., 2019, Varieties of rafting experience: application of novel techniques to develop objective criteria for distinguishing cryogenic and biogenic transport processes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Paper EP23C-2279, presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/603370

 

Gehrels, G., Giesler, D., Olsen, P., Kent, D. V.,  Marsh, A. M., Parker, W. G., Rasmussen, C. Mundil, R., Irmis, R. B., Geissman, J. W., 2019, 65-8 LA-ICPMS U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircon grains from the Chinle Formation (Colorado Plateau Coring Project). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 51(5), ISSN 0016-7592, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-338169 : https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/334497.

 

Fox, C. P., Whireside, H. H., Olsen, P. E., Cui, X., Summons, R. E., Grice, K., 2019, A biomarker and compound specific isotope investigation into the end-Triassic extinction; implications for CIEs and extinction. EGU Galileo Conferences 2019, GC5-Mass-72. (download abstract).

 

Grice, K., Fox, C., Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Cui, X., Summons, R. E., 2019, Microbial mats record magmatically driven sea level fall as a prelude to the end-Triassic mass extinction. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Paper PP13C-1451 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/51404

 

Haque, Z., Geissman, J. W., Buhedma, H., Olsen, P. E., 2019, 36-7 Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and rock magnetism of the continuous cores of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation strata recovered from the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP) Phase 1. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 51(5), ISSN 0016-7592, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-338169 : https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/338169

 

Kinney, S. T., Maclennan, S. A., Setera, J., Schoene, B.,  VanTongeren, J.,  Olsen, P. E., Strauss, J. V.,  Town, C. F.,  Bradley, D., 2019, Causal implications of a new zircon U-Pb geochronological framework for Mesozoic magmatism in northern New England and Quebec: What are the rift/post-rift igneous rocks of the White Mountains.Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. ISSN 0016-7592 doi: 10.1130/abs/2019NE-328495. (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019NE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/328495)

 

Kinney, S., Olsen, P. E., Chang, C., 2019, Thinking beyond astrochronology to paleo-astronomy: case studies from the late Triassic. Paper PP51D-1401 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/626620

 

Lepre, C., Kent, D. V., and Olsen, P. E., 2019, Magnetic properties of paleosols used to reconstruct monsoonal rainfall. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Paper GP21A-06 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/590294

 

Mundil, R., C.,  et al., 2019, Calibration of sedimentary sequences using combined methods: Examples from the Triassic Period. General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-6216 (download abstract).

Olsen, P., Chang, C., Fang, Y., Kinney, S., Hemming, S., Kent, D., Whiteside, J. H., Schaller, M., Sha, J., 2019, Late Triassic Arctic ice in lacustrine strata of the Junggar Basin NW China.  General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-3694 (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P. E., Hyatt, J. A., Getty, P.  McDonald, N. G., LeTourneau, P. M., Chang, C., Schaller, M. F., Ross, M., 2019, The sailing rock, the dinosaur, and the stem-mammal: ice, microbial mats, or both? AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Paper EP23C-2277 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/580376

 

Olsen, P. E.,  Kent, D. V., Laskar, J., Lepre, C. J., Mundil, R., Rasmussen, C., Irmis, R. B., Gehrels, G. E., Giesler, D., Kinney, S.,  Geissman, J. W., Whiteside, J. H., Parker, W., 2019, Implications of Phase 1 of the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP-1) (core CPCP-PFNP13-1A) for Astrochronology of the Late Triassic and Solar System Chaos. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Paper PP44A-06 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/560675

 

Olsen, P. E., Kinney, S., Stueken, E., Jaret, S., Percival, L., Philpotts, A., Whiteside, J., 2019, Two CAMP Explosive Eruptions. Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2019, 2511. (https://goldschmidtabstracts.info/abstracts/abstractView?id=2019005267).

Olsen, P. E., Laskar, J., Kent, D., Kinney, S. Sha, J., Whiteside, J., 2019, The Geological Orrery: Mapping the Chaotic History of the Solar System using Earth's Geological Record, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, DS19 - MS162-1, https://meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_talk.cfm?p=98700;
https://www.pathlms.com/siam/courses/11697/sections/14920/video_presentations/129751

 

Town, C. F., Strauss, J. V., Kinney, S. T., Maclennan, S. A., Bradley, D. C., Olsen, P. E., Schoene, B., Setera, J., 2019, New zircon U-Pb geochronological data from the Moat Volcanics, White Mountains, New Hampshire - Implications for rift and/or plume related magmatism. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, ISSN 0016-7592, doi: 10.1130/abs/2019NE-327960. (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019NE/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/327960)

 

Whiteside, J. H., Yager, J. A., Schaller, M. F., Olsen, P. E., 2019, A Tale of Two LIP-Induced Hyperthermals: Coupled Atmospheric and Hydrologic Changes During the end-Triassic extinction (ETE) and Toarcian OAE (T-OAE). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Paper PP13C-1451 presented at 2019 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/608652 2018:

 

2018:

 

Fang, Y., Olsen P.E., Sha, J., 2018, Cyclostratigraphy in continental high latitude Central Asia during the Early Jurassic. PP53D-1227 presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/458299).

 

Fox, C. P., Whiteside, J. H., Olsen, P. E., Summons, R., Grice, K., 2018, Ecological and redox condition changes during the end-Triassic mass extinction at St. Audrie’s Bay, UK. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, BCG1010. (download abstract).

 

Haque, Z., Geissman, J.W., Olsen, P.E., 2018, Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and rock magnetic data from Moenkopi Formation strata cored at site PFNP-13-2B, a continuous record of Triassic strata, Colorado Plateau Coring Project. GP43B-0776 presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/360997).

 

Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Rasmussen, C., Lepre, C.J., Mundil, R. Irmis, R.B., Gehrels, G.E., Giesler, D., Geissman, J.W., Parker, W., CPCP Team, 2018, Empirical evidence for a stable 405 kiloyear Jupiter-Venus eccentricity climate cycle as a framework for an accurate chronostratigraphy for the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. PP53D-1229 presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/347623).

 

Kinney, S.T., Setera, J. B., Olsen, P. E., MacLennan, S. A., VanTongeren, J. A., Schoene, B., Town, C. F., Strauss, J. V., Hemming, S. R., Bradley, D. C., 2018, Causal implications of new geochronological constraints on Mesozoic post-rift magmatism in New England Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018 129.
(https://goldschmidt.info/2018/abstracts/abstractView?id=201800403629) (download abstract).

 

Lepre, C. J., Kent, D., Olsen, P.E., CPCP Science Team, 2018, Late Triassic pedoclimate change of the Chinle Formation interpreted from scientific core CPCP-PFNP13-1A, Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP). PP41A-04 presented at 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/361608).

 

Mundil, R., Olsen, P., Kent, D., Randy Irmis, R., Lepre, C., Rasmussen, C., Gehrels, G., Giesler, D., Geissman, J., Parker, W., Keller, B.,2018, Synthesis of a multi-method chronostratigraphic framework for the Late Triassic (Chinle Formation, Colorado Plateau, USA). EGU General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 20, EGU2018-11074. (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P., Kent, D., Geissman, J., Gehrels, G., Irmis, R., Whiteside, J., Fang, Y., Sha, J., 2018, The Geological Orrery: Using Earth's Geological Record to Map the Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System with continuous cores of Earth's climate record. EGU General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 20, EGU2018-11276-2 (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P., McDonald, N., Kinney, S., 2018, Lake algal-rafted lithic and biotic debris and the origin of insect lagerstatten. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 20, EGU2018-11440-2. (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P. E., Whiteside, J. H., Kent, D. V., Fang, Y., Chang, C., Kinney, S., Hemming, S., Sues, H.-D., Schaller, M. F., Sha, J., 2018, Arctic ice and the Triassic origin and ecological ascent of the dinosaurs. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-325061 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018AM/webprogram/Paper325061.html).

 

Olsen, P.E., Yager ,J., Whiteside, J., Steinen, R., 2018, New astrochronology of the end-Triassic extinction (ETE) and initial carbon isotopic excursion (CIE) Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018 1922. (https://goldschmidt.info/2018/abstracts/abstractView?id=2018002308) (download abstract).

 

Whiteside, J. H., Fox, C. P., Yager, J., Cui, X., Summons, R. E., Olsen, P. E., Grice, K., 2018, The end-Triassic initial carbon isotopic excursion: Not your grandpa's CIE. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-324631 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018AM/webprogram/Paper324631.html).

 

Whiteside, J., Percival, L., Mather, T., Olsen, P., 2018, Atmospheric deposition of volcanic Hg on a Jurassic lava flow of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018 2782. (https://goldschmidt.info/2018/abstracts/abstractView?id=2018003669). (download abstract).

 

Whiteside, J. H., Yager, J., Olsen, P. E., Palmer, M., Schall;er, M., 2018, A Mesozoic prelude to the Anthopocene: Intensification of the hydrological cycle driven by CAMP-induced CO2 injection. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-325082 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2018AM/webprogram/Paper325082.html).

 

2017:

 

Fang, Y., Sha, J., Olsen, P.E., 2017, Provenance and sedimentary environment evolution of the southern Junggar Basin in the Jurassic. Symposium Abstracts and Program, Continental Crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction Events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems 5th Symposium of IGCP 632, Jurassic Tropical to Polar Biotic and Climatic Transects, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA September 28 - October 2, 2017. (download abstract).

 

Fox, C.P., Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Sepulveda, J.,  Summons, R.E., K. Grice, K., 2017, Alternative explanations for the iniotial organic carbon isotope excirsiomn in the UK during the end-Triassic mass extinction. 28th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, 2017, Florence, Italy, P104, 252.pdf. (download abstract).

Ikeda, M., Olsen, P., Tada, R., Ozaki, K., 2017, Solar system chaos and its climatic and biogeochemical consequences. PP33C-1335, presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/249493) (download abstract).

 

Irmis, R., Olsen, P., Geissman, J. Gehrels, G. Kent, D., Mundil, R., Rasmussen, C., Giesler, D., Schaller, M., Kuerschner, W., Parker, W. Buhedma, H., 2017, The Colorado Plateau Coring Project: a continuous cored non-marine record of Early Mesozoic environmental and biotic change. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Paper EGU2017-14923. (download abstract).

 

Irmis, R.B., Olsen, P.E, Parker, W., Rasmussen, C., Mundil, R., Whiteside, J.H., CPCP Science Party, 2017, Understanding Late Triassic low latitude terrestrial ecosystems: new insights from the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP). PP53A-1098 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/267644) (download abstract).

 

Jones, D.S., Beaty, B.J., Schaller, M.F., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., 2017, Sedimentary Hg in Upper Triassic rift basins of eastern North America: CAMP volcanism, CO2, and end-Triassic extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-307100, (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/307100) (download abstract).

 

Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Mundil, R., Lepre, C.J., CPCP Science Team, 2017, Testing the age calibration of the Newark-Hartford APTS by magnetostratigraphic correlation of U-Pb zircon-dated tuffaceous beds in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation in core PFNP-1A from the Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA). PP44A-03 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/214230) (download abstract).

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., 2017, High-resolution elemental geochemisty of the Late Triassic- Early Jurassic Newark Basin. Goldschmidt 2017 Abstracts (https://goldschmidt.info/2017/abstracts/abstractView?id=2017006095) (download abstract).

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., Chang, C., 2017, Development of a high resolution chemostratigraphy for the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Newark Basin. PP53A-1102  presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/279405) (download abstract).

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., Setera, J., Schoene, B., van Tongeren, J.A., 2017, The White Mountain Magma Series of New England: new perspectives from zircon U-PB geochronology. Symposium Abstracts and Program, Continental Crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction Events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems 5th Symposium of IGCP 632, Jurassic Tropical to Polar Biotic and Climatic Transects, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA September 28 - October 2, 2017. (download abstract).

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., Setera, J., vanTongeren, J.A., Schoene, B., 2017, The White Mountain Magma Series of New England: New perspectives from zircon U-Pb geochronology. Last Days of Pangea Triassic-Jurassic Research Symposium, Bruce Museum, May 16th, 2017, p. 5. (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., Kinney, S.T., Hemming, S., Jarett, S.J., Rasbury, E.T., Philpotts, A.R., Steinen, R.P., 2017, CAMP ashes and the ETE. Goldschmidt 2017 Abstracts (https://goldschmidt.info/2017/abstracts/abstractView?id=2017006082) (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., Mundil, R., Kent, D.V., CPCP Science Party, 2017, Milankovitch cyclicity in the paleotropical, fluvial, Late Triassic age strata recovered by the Colorado Plateau Coring Project (CPCP). PP53A-1099 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/224433) (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., Sha, J., Fang, Y., 2017, Lake ice rafted debris from the Late Triassic of the Junggar Basin China: Implications for dinosaur survival through the ETE. Last Days of Pangea Triassic-Jurassic Research Symposium, Bruce Museum, May 16th, 2017, p. 6. (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., Sha, J., Fang, Y., Kinney, S.T., Whiteside, J.H., 2017, Ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs. Symposium Abstracts and Program, Continental Crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction Events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems 5th Symposium of IGCP 632, Jurassic Tropical to Polar Biotic and Climatic Transects, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA September 28 - October 2, 2017. (download abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E, Whiteside, J.H., Schaller, M.F.,, Kent, D.V., Kinney, S.T., 2017, The Late Triassic and Early Jurassic prelude to the Anthropocene? Earth's Climate Change: Science and Impacts, Book of Abstracts, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, 11-13 October 2017, p. 13-22. (download abstract).

 

Percival, L., Whiteside, J.H., Kinney, S., Olsen, P.E., Mather, T.A., Philpotts, A., 2017, Records of Triassic volcanism in Pangean Great Lakes, and implications for reconstructing the distal effects of Large Igneous Provinces. PP53A-1105 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/241309) (download abstract).

Rogers, N.J., Kinney, S.T., Lewis, K.,  Olsen, P.E., 2017, Chemostratigraphic analysis using Laser Induced Breakdown  Spectroscopy: Mars, by way of the Newark Basin. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-302797 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/302797) (download abstract).

 

Whiteside, J.H., Grice, K., Fox, C., Kent, D. V., Olsen, P. E., Irmis, R.B., 2017, A brief exegesis of end Triassic extinction issues. PP53A-1104 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, L.A., 11-15 Dec. (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/267772) (download abstract).

 

Whiteside, J., Palmer, M., Milton, J.A., Schaller, M., Olsen, P., 2017, CAMP-Induced CO2 injection drove hydrological cycle intensification across the end-Triassic extinction. Goldschmidt 2017 Abstracts (https://goldschmidt.info/2017/abstracts/abstractView?id=2017006186) (download abstract).

 

Winitch, M.L. and Olsen, P.E., 2017, Implications of an analysis of deep pes tracks and manus impressions for the supposed Atreipus-Grallator ichnogeneric plexus: An apomorphy-based approach. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers, 77th Annual Meetiing, p. 214-215. (download abstract) (download poster).

 

2016:

 

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 continuousc 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).

Et-Touhami, M., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Letourneau, P.M., Fowell, S.J., Witte, W.K., Whiteside, J.H., 2016, Tectonic, astrochronostratigraphic,  and biostratigraphic implications of the paleomagnetic polarity reversal stratigraphy of the Late Triassic Bigoudine Formation (Argana Basin, Morocco). AGU, 2016 Fall Meeting, GP43B-1251: (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/158242) (download .pdf of poster).

Fox, C.P., Grice, K., Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Sepulveda, J., Summons, R., 2016, An alternative explanation to the initial carbon isotope excursion at St. Audrie’s Bay during the end-Triassic extinction as indicated by biomarker analysis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 48(7), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-287958 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287958.html)

Geissman, J.W., Buhedma, H., MacIntosh, J.A., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.: 2016, The Colorado Plateau (USA) Coring Project (CPCP): Preliminary magnetic polarity  stratigraphy and rock magnetic data from the continuous cored record of Triassic continental environmental change, Internat. Geol. Cong., Abstracts 35; Paper Number 4937, 35th international geological 65 congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 27 August-4 September 2016.(GeoRef) (download abstract).

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) (download .pdf of presentation).

Kinney, S., Olsen, P.E., Schoene, B., VanTongeren, J.A., 2016, Progress in constraining episodes of both rift(?) and post-rift magmatism on the Eastern North American Margin from high-resolution zircon U-Pb geochronology. AGU, 2016 Fall Meeting, T42D-05: (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/198216).

Kinney, S., Olsen, P.E., Schoene, B., VanTongeren, J.A., Setera, J., 2016, Jurassic igneous activity of the White Mountain Magma Series and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: A temporal and possible geodynamic connection? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 48(7), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-287845 . (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287845.html)

Kinney, S., Sha, J., Schoene, B., Olsen, P., 2016, Implications of U-Pb zircon CA ID-TIMS ages for high-resolution stratigraphy and timescale of Jurassic-Cretaceous continental strata of northern China. International Geological Congress, Abstracts, v. 35; 35th international geological congress, Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 27-Sept. 4, 2016. (GeoRef) (download abstract).

Kuhn, T., Fu, R.R., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., 2016, Geomagnetic reversals of the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous captured in a North China core. AGU, 2016 Fall Meeting, GP43B-1249: (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/152716).

Olsen, P.E., 2016, Feathered dinosaurs of Chinese Mesozoic lacustrine lagerstaetten: Extraordinary preservation or extraordinary effort? 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., 2016, Selective nature of end-Triassic tetrapod extinctions consistent with scenarios of extreme volcanic winters not a super-greenhouse. AGU, 2016 Fall Meeting, V23C-2991: (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/157455).

Olsen, P.E., 2016, The paradox of  "clam shrimp" paleoecology. International Geological Congress, Abstracts, v. 35; 35th International Geological Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 27-Sept. 4, 2016, Paper number 4248. (download abstract; Georef; Poster - low resolution, higher on request).

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, Paper number 4254. (download abstract); Georef)

Olsen, P.E. and Kent, D.V., 2016, Falsification of hypotheses of a major hiatus in the Newark Supergroup Rhaetian (Late Triassic, US and CA) based on data from the Bristol Channel (UK) and North Germanic (DE) basins. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 48(7), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-287150. (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287150.html) (download .pdf of presentation)

Olsen, P.E. and Kinney, S., 2016, Early post-depositional bedding-plane-parallel melanges created by shear and liquefaction: A common but largely misinterpreted organic-rich mudrock facies. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 48(7), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-287708. (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287708.html) (download .pdf of presentation)

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) (download .pdf of presentation).

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) (download .pdf of presentation).

Schaller, M., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Wright, J.D., 2016, A gradual increase in pCO2 across the abrupt end-Triassic extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Northeastern Section, v. 48(2), doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NE-272862 (https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016NE/webprogram/Paper272862.html).\

Whiteside, J.H., Palmer, M., Schaller, M.F., Olsen, P.E., 2016, CO2 and amplification of orbitally forced changes in the hydrological cycle across the end-Triassic extinction. AGU, 2016 Fall Meeting, V23C-2990: (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/176339).

 

2015:

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., Blackburn, T.J., Hemming, S.R., Rasbury, T., Jaret, S., 2015, Subsurface igneous rocks of Florida and Georgia: Timing and relationship to the Cetral Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP).Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 47(7), https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper270103.html.

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., Rasbury, T., Kent, D.V., Jaret, S., and Anders, M.H., 2015, New zircon U/PB age constraints for the Agamenticus complex of southeastern Maine. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 47, no. 3, Paper 54-10. (go to web page of abstract).

 

Kinney, S.T., Olsen, P.E., Schoene, B., Vantongeren, J., Setera, J., Hemming, S.R., 2015, Re-evaluating the White Moubtain Magma Series through high-preceision zirocon U-Pb geochronology and trace element geochelistry: A preliminary report.Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 47(7), https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper270062.html.

 

Letourneau, P.M., McDonald, N.G., Huber, P., Olsen, P.E., 2015, Blowing in the Jurassic wind: paleogeography and hydrogeology of eolian sandstones from the Hartford, Pomperaug, and Argana (Morocco) rifts. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 47(3), Paper 11-12. (go to web page of abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., 2015, Fire and Ice: The mechanism of mass extinction of continental vertebrates at the end-Triassic extinction and rise of dinosaur-dominance. 17th Annual Paleofest, Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, IL, March 14 & 15, 2015, Burpee Museum, p. 21. (download .pdf of abstract).

 

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., 2015, Fire and ice: super-eruptions, volcanic winters, the end-Triassic extinction, and the rise of dinosaur-dominance. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v 47(7), https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper264447.html.

 

Olsen, P.E., 2015, The Geological Orrery: Using Earth’s geological record to map the chaotic evolution of the Solar System. International Workshop in Astronomy and Dynamics (in Honor of Jacques Laskar), Observatoire de Paris. (web cast: https://webcast.in2p3.fr/videos-the-geological-orrery).

 

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.

 

Olsen, P.E., Schaller, M.F., and Kent, D.V., 2015, Atmospheric CO2 Amplification of Orbitally Forced Changes in the Hydrological Cycle in the Early Mesozoic. AGU, 2015 Fall Meeting,  Paper PP53A-2321.

 

Schaller, M., Olsen, P.E., Wright, J.D., Kent, D.V., 2015, A gradual increase in pCO2 across the abrupt accross the abrupt end-Triassic extinction. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v 47(7). https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper267142.html.

 

2014:

 

Collins, D., Conrad, J.A., Goldberg, D., Kent., D.V., Olsen, P., Pasadena, P., and Slater, B., 2014, Characterization of the Triassic-aged Newark rift basin in New York and New Jersey - assessment of CO2 storage potential. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 46(2), Paper 37-8. (go to web page of abstract).

 

Et-Touhami, M., Olsen, P.E., and Whiteside, J.H., 2014, The earliet Jurassic Continental to marine syn-CAMP carbonate-rich sequences of Morocco and their relationship to coeval strata in North America.1st Symposium of IGCP 632 in the 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, p. 869. (download .pdf of abstract).

 

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).

 

Heckert, A.B., Schneider, V., Sload, E.J., Olsen, P., Huber, P., 2014, Tiny Triassic fish from the Newark Supergroup: what do small sharks and little lungfish say about paleoenvironments of North America's Triassic rift basins? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 6(3)3, Paper 12-4. (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).

 

Kent, D.V.. Olsen, P.E., Mutoni, G., 2014, Current status of the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic APTS from continental sediments and correlation with standard marine stages. AGU, 2014 Fall Meeting, Abstracts, Paper 11148, submitted. (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).

 

Olsen, P., Kent, D.V., Whiteside, J.H., Reid, J.C., and Taylor, K.B., 2014, Chronostratigraphic context of the biotic assemblages of the Dan-River-Danville and Deep River basins (Newark Supergroup, Virginia and North Carolina, USA). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 6(3)3, Paper 12-1. (go to web page of abstract).

 

Sha, J., Olsen, P.E., Pan, Y., Xu, D., Yao, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., 2014, Obliquity-dominated high-latitude continental Triassic-Jurassic climate, from the coal-bearing Junggar Basin, (Urmqui, China). AGU, 2014 Fall Meeting, Abstracts, Paper 11537, PP41C-1401. (go to web page of abstract).

 

Sues, H-D. and Olsen, P.E., 2014, New data on the Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod assemblages in the Fundy Group of the Canadian Maritimes.Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, Berlin, Germany, November 5 - 8, 2014, p. 237. (download .pdf of abstract).

 

2013:

 

Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Muttoni, G., 2013, Integration of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and orbital cyclostratigraphy: towards a Late Triassic chronology. Supplement to the Online Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2013, p. 153, ISSN 1937-2809. (download .pdf of abstract).

 

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).

 

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Whiteside, J.H., Schaller, M., 2013, Volcanic winter scenario for the selective nature of the Triassic-Jurassic transition on land. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 46, No. 3, p.20, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/finalprogram/abstract_228132.htm (go to web page of abstract).

 

2012:

 

Blackburn, T.J., Olsen, P.E., Bowring, S.A., McLean, N.M., Kent, D.V., Puffer, J.H., McHone, G., Rasbury, T., High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronological constraints on the End-Triassic Mass Extinction, the late Triassic Astronomical Time Scale and geochemical evolution of CAMP magmatism. AGU, 2012 Fall Meeting, Abstract U51A-11. (download .pdf of abstract).

Et-Touhami, M., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., 2012, Potential source rocks of Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Synrift deposits in Morocco. Salon International des Energies (SIDE), International Energy Exhibition & Conference Oil, Gas, Mining, RnE, October 2 - 5, 2012 Palais des Congres - Marrakech, Maroc. (download .pdf of abstract).

Heckert, A.B., Schneider, V.P., Fraser, N.C., Mitchell, J., Olsen, P.E., 2012, Recent advances in understanding the Late Triassic vertebrate fauna of the Deep River basin (Newark Supergroup: Chatham Group), North Carolina. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/abstract_210948.htm. (go to web page of abstract).

Heckert, A.B., Schneider, V.P., Mitchell, J., Sload, E.J., Olsen, P. E., Reconstructing the Triassic vertebrate fauna of the Deep River Basin (Newark Supergroup: Chatham Group), North Carolina based on new discoveries. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs v. 44, no. 4, p. 67. (go to web page of abstract).

Ikeda, M., Olsen, P.E., 2012, Changes in the silicate weathering intensity on Pangea: as estimate from the early Mesozoic deep-sea sequence in Japan. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/abstract_207208.htm. (go to web page of abstract),

Ikeda, M., Olsen, P.E., Tada, R., 2012, Chaotic evolution of the long period Milankovitch cycle during the early Mesozoic: independent evidences from the Newark lacustrine sequence (North America) and the pelagic bedded chert sequence (Japan). AGU, 2012 Fall Meeting Abstract PP33D-03. (download .pdf of abstract).

Ikeda, M., Tada, R., Olsen, P.E., 2012, Orbital-scale changes in the global silicate weathering intensity: the Mesozoic bedded chert sequence in Japan as its potential measure. AGU, 2012 Fall Meeting, Abstract PP11C-2032. (download .pdf of abstract).

Kent, D.V., Wang, H., and Olsen, Paul E., 2012, Correlation of extrusive units of North Mountain Basalt and Central High Atlas CAMP lavas using geomagnetic paleosecular variation. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs v. 44, no. 2, p. 56. (go to web page of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M., Kent, D.V., Whiteside, J.H., LeTourneau, P.M., 2012, Synchronized accumulation rate and facies change between the Argana (Morocco) and eastern North American Triassic-Jurassic basins. Salon International des Energies (SIDE), International Energy Exhibition & Conference Oil, Gas, Mining, RnE, October 2 - 5, 2012 Palais des Congres - Marrakech, Maroc. (download .pdf of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M., Whiteside, J.H., 2012, Cynodontipus: A procolophonid burrow - not a hairy cynodont track (Middle-Late Triassic: Europe, Morocco, eastern North America). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs v. 44, no. 2, p. 56, (go to web page of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., 2012, Quantitative challenges to our understanding of the tectonostratigraphic evolution of rift basin systems. AGU, 2011 Fall Meeting Abstract T43G-02. (download .pdf of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Et-Touhami, M., 2012, Determining the concentration of individual eruptive events of the CAMP: Distinguishing interflow hiatuses from subterranean alteration and void infilling. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 14: EGU2012-13599 (download .pdf of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Reid, J.C., Whiteside, J.H., LeTourneau, P.M., 2012, Synchronized stasis and abrupt change in the accumulation rate history and facies between the Dan River-Danville (NC & VA) and other eastern North American Triassic-Jurassic basins. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/abstract_212779.htm. (go to web page of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Philpotts, A.R., McDonald, N.G., Huber, P.G., 2012, Air-fall ashes of the CAMP from eastern North America and Morocco. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs v. 44, no. 2, p. 56. (go to web page of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Reynolds, D.J., Goldberg, D., Kent, D.V., Whiteside, J.H., 2012, Geophysical and topographic expression of early Mesozoic grand cycles of the Milankovitch band. AGU, 2012 Fall Meeting, Abstract PP11C-2033. (download .pdf of abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Schaller, M. F., Kent, D. V., Et-Touhami, M., 2012, Was it the CO2 or the sulfur that did it? The mechanism of mass extinction of continental vertebrates at the end-Triassic extinction. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 14, EGU2012-13755 (download abstract).

Whiteside, J.H. and Olsen, P.E., 2012, Stable carbon isotopic trends at the end-Triassic mass extinction  recovered in continental strata in eastern North America and Morocco. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs v. 44, no. 2, p. 41. (go to web page of abstract).

Withjack, M.O., Schlische, R.W., Malinconico, MA. L., Olsen, P.E., 2012, Rifting, breakup, and post-rift deformation on the “passive-aggressive” margin of eastern North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/abstract_208121.htm. (go to web page of abstract).

Zakharova, N.V., Goldberg, D., Collins, D., Olsen, P.E., 2012, Petrophysical and mechanical properties of fractured aquifers in the northern Newark basin: Implications for carbon sequestration. AGU, 2012 Fall Meeting, Abstract T43G-02. (download .pdf of abstract).

2011:

 

Akintunde, O.M., Knapp, C.C., Knapp, J.H., Prasad, M., Olsen, P.E., 2011, Porosity and permeability of Jurassic-Triassic formations of the South Georgia rift basin: Potential implications for CO2 storage. AGU, 2011 Fall Meeting, Abstract GC44A-05 (http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com). (download a .pdf of the abstract). 

Duce, R.A., Goldstein, A.,  Glickson, D., Banerjee, S.K., Curry, W.B., Friberg, M., Huber, J.A., Jackson, M.E., Millheim, K., Mukasa, S.B., Naish, T., Olsen, P.E., Summa, L.I., Trehu, A.M., 2011, A New NRC Report on Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges. AGU, 2011 Fall Meeting, Abstract OS11A-1453 (http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com). (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Et-Touhami, M. and Olsen, P.E., 2011, Les depots evaporitiques marocains du debut du Mesozoique: vue synthetique. Sixieme reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias (GMPT6), May 20-21, Tetouan, Morocco. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Et-Touhami, M. and Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H., Kent, D.V., Fowell, S.J., 2011, The end-Triassic extinction (ETE) event in Morocco: An overview. Second Arab Impact Cratering and Astrogeology Conference (AICAC II) Abstracts, Hassan II Casablanca University Faculty of Sciences and Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences, p. xx. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M. Hemming, S., Rasbury, E.T.,  Goldstein, S.L., Kent. D.V., 2011, Platinum group element evidence for a giant impact just prior to the end Triassic extinction (eastern North America and Morocco). Second Arab Impact Cratering and Astrogeology Conference (AICAC II) Abstracts, Hassan II Casablanca University Faculty of Sciences and Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences, p. xx. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M., Kent, D.V., 2011, Cyclostratigraphy of Early Mesozoic Strata of Subtropical Pangea, Morocco and Eastern Canada. Sixieme reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias (GMPT6), May 20-21, Tetouan, Morocco. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E. and Philpotts, A., 2011, Implications of a widespread airfall tuff in Jurassic lacustrine rift strata, Eastern USA. AGU, 2011 Fall Meeting, Abstract V51F-2566 (http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com). (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Withjack, M.O., Schlische, R.W., Goldberg, D., Kent, D.V., Tamulonis, K., Coueslan, M,, Collins, D.J., 2011, Subsurface images of the northern Newark basin, New York, USA and their implications for carbon sequestration. AGU, 2011 Fall Meeting, Abstract GC44A-07 (http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com). (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Tymchak, M., Collins, D., Brown, C., Conrad, J., Papadeas, P., Coueslan, M.L., Tamulonis, K., Goldberg, D., Olsen, P.E., 2011, New seismic reflection profiling across the northern Newark basin USA: Data acquisition and preliminary results. AGU, 2011 Fall Meeting, Abstract GC51B-0979 (http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com). (download a .pdf of the abstract).

2010:


Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Et-Touhami, M., 2010, The Triassic‐Jurassic Transition Across the Nova Scotian ‐ Moroccan Conjugate Margins. AAPG, Annual Convention & Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, Abstracts. #90104 (2010) (Go to AAPG Search and Discovery page for the abstract).

2009:


Blackburn, T., Bowring, S., Olsen, P., Kent, D., Rasbury, T., McHone, G., 2009, U-Pb zircon dating of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Implication for the Triassic-Jurassic extinction and the astrochronological timescale. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, no. 7, p. 421. (go to web page of the abstract)

Kent, D.V., Wang, H., and Olsen, Paul E., 2009, Chron E23r, paleosecular variation, CAMP volcanism and the end-Triassic extinction event. Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl. GP22A-07 (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/waisfm09.html) (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Mitchell., J., Heckert, A., Schneider, V., Olsen, P., 2009, Evolutionary insights from preliminary statistical analysis of teeth of the venomous microvertebrate Uatchitodon (Archosauriformes) from the Upper Triassic (Sanford Sub-basin, Cumnock Formation) of North Carolina, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 29(3) (Supplement), p. 149A. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P., 2009, Implications of the Newark basin astrochronology and geomagnetic polarity timescale (NBAGPTS) for the tempo and mode of the early diversification of the Dinosauria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 29(3) (Supplement), p. 158A-159A. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E. and Kent, D.V., 2009, A Roadmap for empirical mapping of the chaotic behavior of the Solar System and consequent development of an astronomical time scale for the Phanerozoic. AAPG, Annual Convention & Exhibition, Denver, Abstracts. (go to web page of the abstract) (download a .pdf of the abstract).

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: Implications for 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).

2008:


Heckert, A., Mitchell, K., Schneider, V., Olsen, P., 2008, Exceptional taxonomic diversity from a single site: The Upper Triassic Moncure microvertebrate locality, Cumnock Formation, Sanford subbasin, North Carolina, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28(3) (Supplement), p. 90A-90A. (go to reprint of abstract)

Heckert, A.B., Schneider, Vince, Olsen, P.E., Mitchell, J.S., 2008, The Moncure microvertebrate fauna (Upper Triassic: Norian), Colon cross-structure/Sanford sub-basin, North Carolina, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40(4), p. 55 (go to the web page of the abstract).

 

Milner, A., Spears, S., Olsen, P., 2008, New specimens of Tanaocrossus (Actinopterygii, Perleidiformes) from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation of the Western United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28(3) (Supplement), p. 116A-116A. (go to reprint of abstract)

Olsen, P.E., 2008, The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Newark Supergroup; Quo Vadis? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40(4), p. 56 (go to the web page of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., 2008, Implications of the Geological Determination of “Grand Cycles” of the Milankovitch Band for Behavior of the Solar System. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 40(6), p. 282. (go to the web page of the abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., 2008, New Dynamic Classification of Lake Systems and Their Geological Records. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 40(6), p. 166. (go to the web page of the abstract) (download a ,pdf of the abstract) (download .pdf of poster).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Eglinton, T.I., Cornet, B., Huber, P., McDonald, N., 2008, Milankovitch modulation of the ecosystem dynamics of fossil great lakes. Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP33B-1535 (go to the web page of the abstract) (download a .pdf of the poster).

 

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M., 2008, Carbon isotopic excursion below CAMP basalts. MAPG First International Conference & Exhibition, Marrakech, Morocco. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

2007:

 

Et-Touhami, M., Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Fowell, S.J., Whiteside, J.H., 2007, Tectonostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and magnetostratigraphy of Late Triassic-Early Jurassic red beds in Morocco: an overview. The First MAPG International Convention, Conference & Exhibition, Marrakech Convention Center, October 28-31, 2007, MAPG, p. 37-38. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Kent. D.V. and Olsen, P.E., 2007, Early Jurassic paleopoles from the Hartford continental rift basin (eastern North America): Was an abrupt change in polar wander associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province? Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GP54A-06. (go to the web page of the abstract) (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Machlus, M., Ramezani, J., Bowring, S.A., Hemming, S.R., Christie-Blick, N., and Olsen, P.E., 2007, Spectral analysis and U-Pb dating of the Eocene Wilkins Peak Formation, Wyoming: support for Milankovitch cyclicity. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 305. (go to the web page of the abstract).

Olsen. P.E., 2007, Tempo and modes of climate variability: perspectives from deep-time rift basins. AAPG, Annual Meeting. Long Beach, CA (invited). (go to the web page of the abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., 2007, The Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction. In Rainforth, E.C. (ed.), Contributions to the Paleontology of New Jersey (II), Field Guide and Proceedings, Geological Association of New Jersey, p. 10. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Et Et-Touhami, M., LeTourneau, P.M., 2007, High-resolution transect from the tropics to the temperate zone in Triassic Pangea. The First MAPG International Convention, Conference & Exhibition, Marrakech Convention Center, October 28-31, 2007, MAPG, p. 35. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Whiteside, J.H., 2007, Implications of the cyclostratigraphy of Jurassic lacustrine strata of the Hartford rift basin (CT and MA, USA) for the Time Scale of the Early Mesozoic. Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A51F-12. (go to the web page of the abstract).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Eglinton, T., 2007, Timing is everything: ecological vs. evolutionary pacing of Triassic-Jurassic carbon cycle disruptions. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GP54A-06. (go to the web page of the abstract).

Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Et-Touhami, M., 2007, Carbon isotopic excursion below CAMP basalts. The First MAPG International Convention, Conference & Exhibition, Marrakech Convention Center, October 28-31, 2007, MAPG, p. 41. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

2006:

 

Fensom, R, Pennanen, J, Fedal T., MacRae, A., Olsen, P., Wade, J., Williams, G., Adams, K., Jennifer Bates, J., Brown, D., Falcon-Lang, H., Kathy Goodwin7, Miller, R., Pe-Piper, G., Skilliter, D., 2006, Dinosaurs, deserts and volcanoes: the creation of a series of paintings depicting scenes from the Mesozoic Fundy Basin of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. AGS Abstracts - 2006 Annual General Meeting, Atlantic Geology, 2006, Volume 42, Number 1, p. 84. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Heckert, A.B., Schneider, V., Olsen, P.E., Nesbitt, S., 2006, A new microvertebrate fauna from the upper Triassic (Norian) Cumnock Formation, Durham Subbasin, North Carolina, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 38, No. 3, p. 23. (go to the web page of the abstract).

Kent, D.K., and Olsen, P.E., 2006, Magnetoasterochronology of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary interval and the Tempo or CAMP Volcanism. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38(7), p. 398 (invited). (go to the web page of the abstract).

McRoberts, C.A., Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H., 2006, Linking terrestrial and marine extinctions: disaster species and the end-Triassic Extinction. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38(7), p. 339 (invited). (go to the web page of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E. and Kent, D.K., 2006, Contribution of the Newark Basin Coring Project to astrogeochronology and celestial mechanics. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38(7), p. 273 (invited). (go to the web page of the abstract).

Olsen P.E., Whiteside J.H., Kent D.V., Et-Touhami M., 2006, Pattern and pace and origin of biotic change though the continental early Mesozoic as seen in Eastern North America and Morocco. La 5eme Reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias aura lieu a la Faculte des Sciences Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida, Maroc du 26 au 29 avril 2006. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Olsen, P.E., Whiteside, J.H., Kent, D.V, 2006, Towards an astronomically calibrated timescale for the Jurassic. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38(7), p. 53 (invited). (go to the web page of the abstract).

Olsen P.E., Whiteside J.H., McRoberts C., Et-Touhami M., 2006, The first 200 ky of the Early Jurassic in eastern North America and Morocco. La 5eme Reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias aura lieu a la Faculte des Sciences Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida, Maroc du 26 au 29 avril 2006. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Whiteside J.H., Olsen P.E., 2006, Carbon isotopic test of the Triassic age of the lower Central High Atlas basalts. La 5eme Reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias aura lieu a la Faculte des Sciences Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida, Maroc du 26 au 29 avril 2006. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

Whiteside J.H., Olsen P.E., Kent, D.V., Eglinton, T.I., 2006, Double precessional cycles and traversodont cynodont-dominated provinces in equatorial Pangea. Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP41A-1180. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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 stromatolites 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).

 

Machlus, M., Olsen, P.E., Christie-Blick, N., and Hemming, S.R., 2003, Oil-Shale Yield in the Green River Formation as a Proxy for Relative Lake-Depth, AAPG Annual Convention
May 11-14, 2003, Salt Lake . City, Utah. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

Muttoni, G., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Bernasconi, S., Lowrie, W., Martin Hernandez, F., Di Stefano, P., 2003, Tethyan magnetostratigraphy 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)

 

Lanci, L., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., 2002,  Milankovitch cyclicity In Late Triassic continental sediments from the Newark Basin from singular spectrum analysis of natural gamma ray logs. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, 21-26 April 2002, abstract #4943. (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, Troiseme Reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias, Casablanca, 18-20 Avril 2002, Resumes, 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 succession 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 biostratigraphic evidence for brief and synchronous 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:

Fairfield, H.M., Olsen, P.E., Hemming, S., 1999, Samarium/neodymium isotopic evidence for an insignificant basaltic contribution of shales in the Mesozoci Hartford Basin, U.S.A. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 2, p. A-14. (download a copy of the abstract)

 

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. and Kent, D.V., 1999, Comparison of the tectonostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Triassic-Jurassic Fundy (Nova Scotia) and Argana (Morocco) rift basins. Deuxiem Reunion du Groupe Marocain du Permien et du Trias, GMPT-2, Marrakech, 24-26 novembre 1999, Resumes, (Groupe Marocain Permien et du Trias, Universite Cadi Ayyad, Faculte des Sciences - Semlalia, Departement de Geologie), p. 32.

 

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)

 

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.

 

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. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Supplement, v. 80, no. 17, abstract B21B-10 (http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/1999/FM/B21B-10.html).

 

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, Spring Meeting, Supplement, v. 80, no. 17, p. S319.

 

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., Poellmann, H., and Wycisk, P. (eds.) Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, Abstracts, Hallesches Jahrbuch fuer 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., Poellmann, H., and Wycisk, P. (eds.) Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, Abstracts, Hallesches Jahrbuch fuer 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:

 

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.

 

Fowell, S.J., Traverse, A., Olsen, P.E, and Kent, D.V., 1996, Carnian and Norian palynofloras from the Newark Supergroup, Eastern United States and Canada. and the Argana Basin of Morocco; relationship to Triassic climate zones. CIMP Newsletter 51: 4.

 

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, Precession cycle frequency doubling at the equator of Triassic Pangea. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, n. 46, Suppl., p. 301.

 

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, Abstracts 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, Climate Modulation of source, reservoir and seal facies along the zonal climate gradient of Pangea. Hydrocarbon Habitat in Rifts, The Petroleum Group, 9-11, May, 1993, Bath, UK. (download a .pdf)

 

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, 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 facsimile abstract)

 

Olsen, P. E. and Johansson, A. K., 1993, Relationship between evolution of plants, consumers, and global climate. SEMP meeting. (Go to a facsimile 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., 1992, Rift basin patterns and processes: A time for remodeling? American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. AAPG Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 22-25. (Go to AAPG facimile abstract) (go to facimile abstract)

 

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. (download a .pdf of the abstract)

 

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. (Download .pdf)

 

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 paleoichnology. Abstract of Papers, Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 9, no. 3, Supplement, p. 34A-35A. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

Olsen, P.E., Cornet, B., and McDonald, N.G., 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. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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.  (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

1988:

 

Olsen, P. E., 1988, Tectonic, climatic, and biological modulation of lake sediments in the Newark Supergroup. AAPG Symposium, Snowbird, p. 12. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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, p. 59. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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.  (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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, v. 20, no. 1, p. 59. (download a .pdf of the abstract).

 

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. (Download .pdf)

 

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. (Go to web page archive)

 

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. (Go to web page archive)

 

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. (Download .pdf)

 

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. (Download .pdf)

 

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. (Download .pdf)

 

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. (Download .pdf)

 

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. (Go to web page archive).

 

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