9 Paleontology and Paleoclimatology

Wednesday, 18 May 2011
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Cottonwood

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  EXPLORING THE PALEOCLIMATIC RECORD OF TERRESTRIAL APTIAN-ALBIAN CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION OF EASTERN UTAH
  G.a. Ludvigson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and R.M. Joeckel, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Luis A. Gonzalez, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and J.I. Kirkland, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Laura Murphy, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS and Celina Suarez, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  187551 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  PRELIMINARY CENSUS OF FOSSIL WOOD, KAIPAROWITS FORMATION (UPPER CAMPANIAN-CRETACEOUS), GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH
  Alan L. Titus, Kanab, UT and Kim T. Anderson, Kanab, UT
  187580 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  VISUAL ENHANCEMENT OF TRACE FOSSILS AND OTHER SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES IN THE ESCALANTE SANDSTONE MEMBER OF THE ENTRADA FORMATION (MIDDLE JURASSIC) BY ENDOLITHIC MICROBES; TWENTY MILE WASH, GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH
  Bob Stevenson, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Escalante, UT and Alan Titus, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Kanab, UT
  187576 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE? BALANCING INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY WITH MULTIPLE-INTELLIGENCE PEDAGOGY VIA VIRTUAL GEOLOGY FIELD TRIPS OF NATIONAL PARKS
  Parvinder Sethi, Radford Univ, Radford, VA
  187810 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  PRELIMINARY TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF A COELOPHYSOID THEROPOD DINOSAUR BONEBED IN THE EARLY JURASSIC NUGGET SANDSTONE OF UTAH
  Mariah Chambers, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Hales Kimberly, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Brooks B. Britt, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Daniel J. Chure, National Park Service, Jensen, UT and George F. Engelmann, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Omaha, NE and Rod Scheetz, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
  187347 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  DINOSAUR TRACKS CONFIRM LATE CRETACEOUS AGE FOR THE LOWER GRAND CASTLE FORMATION, IRON COUNTY, UTAH: STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS
  Gary J. Hunt, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Robert F. Biek, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Donald D. DeBlieux, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Scott K. Madsen, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Andrew R.C. Milner, St. George, UT and Eric M. Roberts, James Cook University, Townsville and Jeffery G. Eaton, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
  187276 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  IDAHO'S FIRST DINOSAUR IDENTIFIABLE TO GENUS LEVEL, ORYCTODROMEUS SP., FROM THE MID-CRETACEOUS WAYAN FORMATION, AND THE GEOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL SETTING
  L.J. Krumenacker, Vernal, UT and Brooks Britt, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and David J. Varricchio, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and Rod Scheetz, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Steve Robison, Caribou/Targhee National Forest, Idaho Falls, ID
  187424 (Technical Sessions)