Rocky Mountain - 55th Annual Meeting (May 7-9, 2003)
Session No. 12 Thursday, May 8, 2003
1:30 PM-4:20 PM, Fort Lewis College: Noble Hall 130

S6. 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

Spencer G. Lucas and Andrew Heckert, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
12-11:35 PM PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU REGION, PENNSYLVANIAN THROUGH CRETACEOUS, AND MID-MORRISON PLATEAU ROTATION: STEINER, Maureen Bernice, Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Wyoming, PO Box 3006, Laramie, WY 82071, magnetic@uwyo.edu.
12-21:50 PM JURASSIC JOINTS IN MISSISSIPPIAN CARBONATE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN THRUST FRONT, MONTANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR FRACTURED HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS: GERAGHTY, Emily M. and SEARS, James W., Geology, Univ of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, emgeraghty@hotmail.com
12-32:05 PM THE VIRGILIAN-WOLFCAMPIAN BURSUM FORMATION AND ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN TECTONICS IN NEW MEXICO: LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, slucas@nmmnh.state.nm.us and KRAINER, Karl, Institute of Geology & Paleontology, Univ of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
12-42:20 PM DINOSAUR FAUNAS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: SEQUENCE AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE: HUNT, Adrian P., LUCAS, Spencer G., HECKERT, Andrew B., and ZEIGLER, Kate, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, ahunt@nmmnh.state.nm.us
12-52:35 PM STRATIGRAPHY, UNCONFORMITIES, AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A: HECKERT, Andrew B., LUCAS, S.G., ZEIGLER, K.E., and HUNT, A.P., New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104-1375, AHeckert@nmmnh.state.nm.us
 2:50 PM Break
12-63:05 PM A TAPHONOMIC SURVEY OF THE BONEBEDS OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES: ZEIGLER, Kate E.1, HECKERT, Andrew B.2, LUCAS, Spencer G.1, and HUNT, Adrian P.1, (1) New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Road SW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, kaerowyn@unm.edu, (2) New Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Road SW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
12-73:20 PM EVOLUTION OF MIDDLE-UPPER JURASSIC DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEMS, SOUTHERN WESTERN INTERIOR: LUCAS, Spencer G., HECKERT, Andrew B., ZEIGLER, Kate E., and HUNT, Adrian P., New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, slucas@nmmnh.state.nm.us
12-83:35 PM CATASTROPHIC SEDIMENTATION IN THE MID-MAASTRICHTIAN OF SOUTHERN COLORADO: TURNER, Peter1, CORNELIUS, Chris2, and CLARKE, Paul1, (1) Petroleum Geoscience Unit, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom, p.turner@bham.ac.uk, (2) Evergreen Rscs Inc, 1401 17th Street, Suite 1200, Denver, 80202
12-93:50 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: FASSETT, James E., U. S. Geol Survey, Emeritus, 552 Los Nidos Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87501, jimgeology@qwest.net.
 4:05 PM Discussion

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