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

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Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 332CF

Presiding:
Claudia Schroder-Adams and James Haggart
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
186-1
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
Concluding Remarks
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