2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
Session No. 186 Monday, 6 October 2008
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, George R. Brown Convention Center: 332CF

T78. From the Forearc to the Foreland: Contrasting Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Paleoenvironments of the North American Cretaceous (GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM); Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies)

Claudia Schroder-Adams and James Haggart, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
186-18:05 AM New Interpretation of Cretaceous Basin Development, Orogenesis, and Tectonism In the Cordillera (U.S. and Canada) Based on Reconstruction of Major Cretaceous-Cenozoic Strike-Slip Faults: WYLD, Sandra J., Dept. of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, swyld@gly.uga.edu
186-28:25 AM Cretaceous Geodynamic History of Western North America: BLAKEY, Ronald C. and UMHOEFER, Paul J., Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Box 4099, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, ronald.blakey@nau.edu
186-38:40 AM Migrating, Short-Lived Depocentres Revealed through High-Resolution Allostratigraphy: PLINT, Guy1, ROCA, Xavier2, ZHANG, Heng3, KRAWETZ, Jessica R.4, KREITNER, Michael A.5, SISULAK, Chad F.2, and VARBAN, Bogdan L.6, (1) Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada, gplint@uwo.ca, (2) Imperial Oil Resources, Calgary, AB T2P 3M9, Canada, (3) 108 3 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 0E7, Canada, (4) Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Calgary, AB T2P 0E7, Canada, (5) Petro Canada Resources, Calgary, AB T2P 3E3, Canada, (6) Imperial Oil Resources, Calgary, AB T2P 3E3, Canada
186-48:55 AM Depositional Environments of the Turonian Ferron Sandstone In the Henry Mountains of South-Central Utah: FIELDING, Christopher, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, cfielding2@unl.edu
186-59:10 AM Comparative Cretaceous Molluscan Biochronology and Biogeography, Pacific Coast and Western Interior Regions of North America: HAGGART, James W., Geol Survey Canada, 625 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5J3, Canada, jhaggart@nrcan.gc.ca and WARD, Peter D., Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
186-69:25 AM Paleoenvironments of Cretaceous Fore-Arc and Foreland Basins In Western Canada: Contrasting Controls on Biogeographic Provinces: SCHRÖDER-ADAMS, Claudia J., Dept. of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 Canada, csadams@earthsci.carleton.ca
 9:40 AM Break
186-79:55 AM Anatomy of An Unconformity and Its Earliest Overlying Fill – the Basinwide Sub-Cretaceous Unconformity of Western Canada Foreland Basin: LECKIE, Dale A., Nexen Inc, 801 7th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3P7 Canada, dale_leckie@nexeninc.com
186-810:15 AM Advancing and Quantifying Paleogeographic Maps: UMHOEFER, Paul J. and BLAKEY, Ronald C., Geology, Northern Arizona University, Box 4099, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, paul.umhoefer@nau.edu
186-910:30 AM Co-Occurring Campanian/Maastrichtian Index Fossils in the Western Interior and North Pacific Biotic Provinces Require Fundamental Changes in Zonal Biostratigraphy for Both Provinces: WARD, Peter D., Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Kincaid Hall, Seattle, WA 98125, argo@u.washington.edu, MITCHELL, Ross, N., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, and HAGGART, James, Geological Survey of Canada, 625 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6B5J3, Canada
186-1010:45 AM Paleoenvironmental and Paleogeographic Reconstructions of the Turonian to Santonian Western Interior Sea, Canada: NIELSEN, Karsten Schjodt, PetroGlobe inc, 2112 14A street sw, calgary, AB t2t3w8, Canada, karsten.nielsen@petroglobe.com, SCHRÖDER-ADAMS, Claudia, Earch Sciences, Carleton University, 2160 Herzberg building, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada, and LECKIE, Dale, Nexen inc, 801-7th Avenue S.W, Calgary, AB T2P 3P7, Canada
186-1111:00 AM Oceanic Anoxic Event 3 (Coniacian-Santonian, Late Cretaceous) in the Western Interior Seaway: LECKIE, R. Mark, SALACUP, Jeffrey M., and PETSCH, Steven T., Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, mleckie@geo.umass.edu
186-1211:20 AM Carbon-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Calera Limestone, California, USA: Insights into Pacific Ocean Paleoceanography and Oceanic Anoxic Events: ROBINSON, Stuart1, CLARKE, Leon2, NEDERBRAGT, Alexandra1, and WOOD, Ian1, (1) Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, stuart.robinson@ucl.ac.uk, (2) School of Ocean Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, LL59 5AB, United Kingdom
186-1311:35 AM Paper Withdrawn
 11:50 AM Concluding Remarks

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