12 Rise and Fall of the Rocky Mountains II and III: Tectonics, Eustasy, and Climate Change from the Late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountains to the Age of the Dinosaurs

Thursday, 8 May 2003
1:30 PM - 4:20 PM

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU REGION, PENNSYLVANIAN THROUGH CRETACEOUS, AND MID-MORRISON PLATEAU ROTATION
  Maureen Bernice Steiner, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  53248 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 1:50 PM
  JURASSIC JOINTS IN MISSISSIPPIAN CARBONATE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN THRUST FRONT, MONTANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR FRACTURED HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS
  Emily M. Geraghty, Univ of Montana, Missoula, MT and James W. Sears, Univ of Montana, Missoula, MT
  53211 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:05 PM
  THE VIRGILIAN-WOLFCAMPIAN BURSUM FORMATION AND ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN TECTONICS IN NEW MEXICO
  Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Karl Krainer, Univ of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, N/A
  53155 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  DINOSAUR FAUNAS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: SEQUENCE AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE
  Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Andrew B. Heckert, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Kate Zeigler, N/A
  53132 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:35 PM
  STRATIGRAPHY, UNCONFORMITIES, AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A
  Andrew B. Heckert, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and S.G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and K.E. Zeigler, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and A.P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM
  53151 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:05 PM
  A TAPHONOMIC SURVEY OF THE BONEBEDS OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
  Kate E. Zeigler, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Andrew B. Heckert, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM
  52787 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  EVOLUTION OF MIDDLE-UPPER JURASSIC DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS, SOUTHERN WESTERN INTERIOR
  Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Andrew B. Heckert, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Kate E. Zeigler, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM
  52965 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:35 PM
  CATASTROPHIC SEDIMENTATION IN THE MID-MAASTRICHTIAN OF SOUTHERN COLORADO
  Peter Turner, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, N/A and Chris Cornelius, Evergreen Rscs Inc, Denver, N/A and Paul Clarke, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, N/A
  52828 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:50 PM
  THE EFFECT OF VOLCANIC ASH FALLS ON THE EVOLUTION OF DINOSAURS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY IN LATE CRETACEOUS TIME
  James E. Fassett, U. S. Geol Survey, Emeritus, Santa Fe, NM
  53096 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)