Science report
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22 Oct 2018
Science report |
| 22 Oct 2018
| 22 Oct 2018
Colorado Plateau Coring Project, Phase I (CPCP-I): a continuously cored, globally exportable chronology of Triassic continental environmental change from western North America
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
John W. Geissman
Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
Dennis V. Kent
Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
George E. Gehrels
Department of
Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Roland Mundil
Berkeley
Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Berkeley CA 94709, USA
Randall B. Irmis
Natural History Museum of Utah and Department of Geology &
Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Christopher Lepre
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Cornelia Rasmussen
Natural History Museum of Utah and Department of Geology &
Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Dominique Giesler
Department of
Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
William G. Parker
Petrified Forest National Park, Petrified Forest, AZ 86028, USA
Natalia Zakharova
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Central Michigan
University, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859, USA
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
Wolfram M. Kürschner
Department
of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1047, Blindern, Oslo 0316,
Norway
Charlotte Miller
MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University
of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Viktoria Baranyi
Department
of Geosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1047, Blindern, Oslo 0316,
Norway
Morgan F. Schaller
Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY 12180, USA
Jessica H. Whiteside
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of
Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
Douglas Schnurrenberger
Continental Scientific
Drilling Coordination Office and LacCore Facility, N.H. Winchell School of
Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Anders Noren
Continental Scientific
Drilling Coordination Office and LacCore Facility, N.H. Winchell School of
Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Kristina Brady Shannon
Continental Scientific
Drilling Coordination Office and LacCore Facility, N.H. Winchell School of
Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Ryan O'Grady
Continental Scientific
Drilling Coordination Office and LacCore Facility, N.H. Winchell School of
Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Matthew W. Colbert
University of Texas High Resolution X-ray CT Facility, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Jessie Maisano
University of Texas High Resolution X-ray CT Facility, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
David Edey
University of Texas High Resolution X-ray CT Facility, The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Sean T. Kinney
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades,
NY 10964, USA
Roberto Molina-Garza
Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM), Boulevard Juriquilla No. 3001, Querétaro 76230,
México
Gerhard H. Bachman
Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg,
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Von-Seckendorff-Platz 3, 06120 Halle
(Saale), Germany
Jingeng Sha
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and
Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology and Center for
Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing 210008, China
the CPCD team
A full list of authors appears at the end of the paper.
Data sets
CPCP Alexander Stone, Kristina Brady, Anders Noren, Paul Olsen, Roland Mundil, Dennis Kent, Randy Irmis, George Gehrels, Dominique Giesler, Christopher Lepre, John Geissman, Ziaul Haque, and Cornelia Rasmussen https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5VD8U
Short summary
The Colorado Plateau Coring Project-1 recovered ~ 850 m of core in three holes at two sites in the Triassic fluvial strata of Petrified Forest National Park, AZ, USA. The cores have abundant zircon, U-Pb dateable layers (210–241 Ma) that along with magnetic polarity stratigraphy, validate the eastern US-based Newark-Hartford astrochronology and timescale, while also providing temporal and environmental context for the vast geological archives of the Triassic of western North America.
The Colorado Plateau Coring Project-1 recovered ~ 850 m of core in three holes at two sites in...
