1 Time of Transition: Cretaceous Climate, Tectonics, and Evolutionary History I

Monday, 19 May 2025
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Cascade E

Participants

• Chair Marina Suarez
• Chair Kate Andrzejewski
• Chair Landon Burgener
• Chair Greg Ludvigson
• Chair Andreas Möller

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  REFINED GEOCHRONOLOGIC FRAMEWORK OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS NONMARINE WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN
  Jack Fekete, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR and Clayton Forster, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT and Queen Kalu, Texas A&M, College Station, TX and Matthew Allen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Ellie Biebesheimer, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Glenn Sharman, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR and Celina Suarez, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR and Marina B. Suarez, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS and Lindsay E. Zanno, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch and Ryan T. Tucker, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch and Richard Lupia, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Peter J. Makovicky, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and James L. Crowley, Boise State University Geochronology Center, Boise, ID
  410136 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  CONTINUING INVESTIGATION OF A HIGH-RESOLUTION DATE-CONSTRAINED RECORD OF THE VALANGINIAN CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSION OR "WEISSERT EVENT" IN TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS OF THE YELLOW CAT MEMBER IN UTAH, USA
  R. M. (Matt) Joeckel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Gregory Ludvigson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and N.M. McLean, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and A. Möller, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Marina Suarez, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  409952 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:35 AM
  RECOGNITION OF THE UPPER ALBIAN OAE 1C CHEMOZONE (AMADEUS EVENT) IN TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN
  Gregory Ludvigson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Andreas Möller, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Robert Joeckel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Marina B. Suarez, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS
  410050 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:50 AM
  BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA MORPHOLOGY TRACK DYNAMIC SHIFT IN OXYGENATION DURING OAE2 IN THE SOUTHWESTERN WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY
  Aidan Trendell, Seekonk, MA and Raquel Bryant, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and Christina Belanger, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and R. Mark Leckie, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
  409701 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  PALEOSOLS IN THE LOWER YELLOW CAT MEMBER OF THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION IN EASTERN UTAH INDICATE THAT THE EARLIEST CRETACEOUS (BERRIASIAN) IN THE COLORADO PLATEAU REGION WAS EXCEPTIONALLY WET
  James Kirkland, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Edward L. Simpson, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA and Michael Wizevich, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT and Donald D. DeBlieux, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT
  409473 (Theme Sessions)