Session: From the Forearc to the Foreland: Contrasting Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Paleoenvironments of the North American Cretaceous

Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 332CF

Presiding:

Claudia Schroder-Adams and James Haggart

8:00 AM

8:05 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
Sandra J. Wyld, University of Georgia

8:25 AM

186-2

Cretaceous Geodynamic History of Western North America
Ronald C. Blakey, Northern Arizona University; Paul J. Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University

8:40 AM

186-3

Migrating, Short-Lived Depocentres Revealed through High-Resolution Allostratigraphy
Guy Plint, University of Western Ontario; Xavier Roca, Imperial Oil Resources; Heng Zhang; Jessica R. Krawetz, Canadian Natural Resources Limited; Michael A. Kreitner, Petro Canada Resources; Chad F. Sisulak, Imperial Oil Resources; Bogdan L. Varban, Imperial Oil Resources

8:55 AM

186-4

Depositional Environments of the Turonian Ferron Sandstone In the Henry Mountains of South-Central Utah
Christopher Fielding, University of Nebraska

9:10 AM

186-5

Comparative Cretaceous Molluscan Biochronology and Biogeography, Pacific Coast and Western Interior Regions of North America
James W. Haggart, Geol Survey Canada; Peter D. Ward, University of Washington

9:25 AM

186-6

Paleoenvironments of Cretaceous Fore-Arc and Foreland Basins In Western Canada: Contrasting Controls on Biogeographic Provinces
Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, Carleton University

9:40 AM

Break

9:55 AM

186-7

Anatomy of An Unconformity and Its Earliest Overlying Fill – the Basinwide Sub-Cretaceous Unconformity of Western Canada Foreland Basin
Dale A. Leckie, Nexen Inc

10:15 AM

186-8

Advancing and Quantifying Paleogeographic Maps
Paul J. Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University; Ronald C. Blakey, Northern Arizona University

10:30 AM

186-9

Co-Occurring Campanian/Maastrichtian Index Fossils in the Western Interior and North Pacific Biotic Provinces Require Fundamental Changes in Zonal Biostratigraphy for Both Provinces
Peter D. Ward, University of Washington; Ross, N. Mitchell, Yale University; James Haggart, Geological Survey of Canada

10:45 AM

186-10

Paleoenvironmental and Paleogeographic Reconstructions of the Turonian to Santonian Western Interior Sea, Canada
Karsten Schjodt Nielsen, PetroGlobe inc; Claudia Schröder-Adams, Carleton University; Dale Leckie, Nexen inc

11:00 AM

186-11

Oceanic Anoxic Event 3 (Coniacian-Santonian, Late Cretaceous) in the Western Interior Seaway
R. Mark Leckie, University of Massachusetts; Jeffrey M. Salacup, University of Massachusetts; Steven T. Petsch, University of Massachusetts

11:20 AM

186-12

Carbon-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Calera Limestone, California, USA: Insights into Pacific Ocean Paleoceanography and Oceanic Anoxic Events
Stuart Robinson, University College London; Leon Clarke, Bangor University; Alexandra Nederbragt, University College London; Ian Wood, University College London

11:35 AM

186-13

Paper Withdrawn

11:50 AM

Concluding Remarks

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