27 Recent Work in Mesozoic East Coast Rift Basins: Structure, Sedimentology, Paleontology, Mapping, and More!

This session will bring together those conducting geological studies of the evolution of North American east coast Mesozoic rift basins and their sedimentary, volcanic, paleontological, and paleoclimatic records.

Monday, 23 March 2026
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
CCC, Room 26

Participants

• Chair Peter Drzewiecki
• Chair Randolph Steinen

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  Lateral continuity of facies in Jurassic ephemeral lake strata of the Hartford Basin: Implications for correlation and depositional environment interpretation
  Peter Drzewiecki, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut
  411095 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  Re-evaluation of fluvial style in the Triassic-Jurassic Hartford Graben, Connecticut and Massachusetts
  Christopher Fielding, University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, CT and Peter Drzewiecki, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut and Michael Wizevich, Central Connecticut State University, Geological Sciences, New Britain, CT
  411191 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  Two New Sets of Aetosauriform Dermal Armor Impressions from the New Haven Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of New Haven, Connecticut
  Adé Ben-Salahuddin, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT and Daniel Brinkman, Yale Peabody Museum , New Haven, Connecticut and James Hyatt, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut
  411242 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  WHERE ARE THE LAVA FLOWS OF THE TALCOTT BASALT IN PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN HARTFORD BASIN, CONNECTICUT?
  Randolph Steinen, Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hartford, CT 06106 and Allison Charney, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050
  411453 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  Syndepositional Faulting in the Hanging Hills and Watchungs, Hartford and Newark Basins, Associated with the Initial Pulse of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP)
  Paul Olsen, Lamont-Dohery Earth Observatory of Columbia University , Palisades, NY and Sean Kinney, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey and Phillip Huber, Geoscience Books and Services, Faribault, Minnesota
  411463 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  Measuring the Magnitude and Timing of Burial, Exhumation, and Deformation During the Rift-Drift Transition Along the Eastern Border Fault of the Mesozoic Hartford Basin, Southern Connecticut, USA.
  Phillip Resor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and Rebekah Kennedy, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and Zachary Klang, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT and Julie Fosdick, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and Robert Wintsch, Wesleyan University, Haddam, CT
  411468 (Technical Sessions)