T186 From the Forearc to the Foreland: Contrasting Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Paleoenvironments of the North American Cretaceous

Monday, 6 October 2008
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  New Interpretation of Cretaceous Basin Development, Orogenesis, and Tectonism In the Cordillera (U.S. and Canada) Based on Reconstruction of Major Cretaceous-Cenozoic Strike-Slip Faults
  Sandra J. Wyld, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  146140 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  Cretaceous Geodynamic History of Western North America
  Ronald C. Blakey, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ and Paul J. Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
  148366 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  Migrating, Short-Lived Depocentres Revealed through High-Resolution Allostratigraphy
  Guy Plint, University of Western Ontario, London, ON and Xavier Roca, Imperial Oil Resources, Calgary, AB and Heng Zhang, Calgary, AB and Jessica R. Krawetz, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Calgary, AB and Michael A. Kreitner, Petro Canada Resources, Calgary, AB and Chad F. Sisulak, Imperial Oil Resources, Calgary, AB and Bogdan L. Varban, Imperial Oil Resources, Calgary, AB
  145665 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  Depositional Environments of the Turonian Ferron Sandstone In the Henry Mountains of South-Central Utah
  Christopher R. Fielding, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
  145979 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  Comparative Cretaceous Molluscan Biochronology and Biogeography, Pacific Coast and Western Interior Regions of North America
  James W. Haggart, Geol Survey Canada, Vancouver, BC and Peter D. Ward, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  151481 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  Paleoenvironments of Cretaceous Fore-Arc and Foreland Basins In Western Canada: Contrasting Controls on Biogeographic Provinces
  Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
  146260 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  Anatomy of An Unconformity and Its Earliest Overlying Fill – the Basinwide Sub-Cretaceous Unconformity of Western Canada Foreland Basin
  Dale A. Leckie, Nexen Inc, Calgary, AB
  148802 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  Advancing and Quantifying Paleogeographic Maps
  Paul J. Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ and Ronald C. Blakey, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
  151606 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  Co-Occurring Campanian/Maastrichtian Index Fossils in the Western Interior and North Pacific Biotic Provinces Require Fundamental Changes in Zonal Biostratigraphy for Both Provinces
  Peter D. Ward, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Ross, N. Mitchell, Yale University, New Haven, CT and James Haggart, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC
  150652 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  Paleoenvironmental and Paleogeographic Reconstructions of the Turonian to Santonian Western Interior Sea, Canada
  Karsten Schjodt Nielsen, PetroGlobe inc, calgary, AB and Claudia Schröder-Adams, Carleton University, Ottawa, AB and Dale Leckie, Nexen inc, Calgary, AB
  151479 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  Oceanic Anoxic Event 3 (Coniacian-Santonian, Late Cretaceous) in the Western Interior Seaway
  R. Mark Leckie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Jeffrey M. Salacup, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Steven T. Petsch, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  151133 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  Carbon-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Calera Limestone, California, USA: Insights into Pacific Ocean Paleoceanography and Oceanic Anoxic Events
  Stuart Robinson, University of Oxford, Oxford and Leon Clarke, Bangor University, Isle of Anglesey, N/A and Alexandra Nederbragt, University College London, London, N/A and Ian Wood, University College London, London, N/A
  149427 (Technical Sessions)