Umiat-Maybe Creek Region Alaska

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Umiat-Maybe Creek Region Alaska Geology of the Umiat-Maybe Creek Region Alaska By WILLIAM P. BROSG~and CHARLES L. WHIrM'INGTON With Heavy-Mineral Studies of the Umiat-Maybe Creek Region By ROBERT H. MORRIS EXPLORATION OF NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVE NO. 4 AND ADJACENT AREAS, NORTHERN ALASKA, 1944-53 PART 3, AREAL GEOLOGY - -- GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 303-H Prepared and published at the reguest of and in cooperation with the U.S. Department ofthe Navy, O&ce of Naval Petroleam and Oil Shale Reserves 1 i i UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director - For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Statigraphy-Continued Page Abstract------------------------------------------. 50 1 Cretaceous System-Continued Introduction - - - - - _ - - _ - - _ - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .- _ - 502 Colville Group-Continued Location and size of area- - - - -_- - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ _ _ - 502 Prince Creek Formation- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pur~eandscope------_---------------_---_--- 502 Tuluvak Tongue.................... Earlywork-_--_-_-_-_-_---_----------------_-- 503 Kogosukruk Tongue- - - - ------------ Recent work---_-_-_-_------------------------- 504 Lower part ---- - - - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - - Upper part ------------ .-------- Acknowledgments-----------------_----_------_- 506 Quaternary deposits ............................. Mapping methods------------------------------ 506 Gubik Formation ........................... Geography---------_------------------------------- 507 High-level terrace deposits-- - - - _ - - - - -- - ---- - - Physiography------------------------------_-_- 507 Low-level terrace deposits------------ ---- ---- Accessibility- - - - - _ - - - - - - - - - _ - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ - 508 Alluvium------------_-----------------_--- Climate---------------------------------__-_-_ 508 St~cture------------------------------------------ Settlement and population ....................... 508 Transverse trends---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stratigaphy-..---------------------------------_-__ 508 Structure at. depth. .............................. Pre-Cretaceous 508 Aupuk anticline- - - -- - _--- - --- - -- - - - - - -- -- -- -- - - Cretaceous System.............................. 511 Knifeblade anticline ------- - - --- - -- - - - - -- - -- - - - - - Torok Formation-- ......................... 511 Weasel Creek anticline- - - -- - -- -- - - - --- - -- ------- Fossil Creek anticline- - - - --- - - -- -- ---- -- - - -- -- - - Nanushuk Group---_-_--------------------- 513 Titaluk anticline ----- - ---- - - - --- -- - - - - - -- - -_---- Grandstand Formation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 513 Wolf Creek antlclmne-. ---_------ -- -- - -- -- ---- -- - - Chandler Formation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 517 Umiat and Square Lake anticlines-- -------------- Killik Tongue ------- --------------- 517 Umiat anticline ----------- - ---- - -- - --- ---- - - Ninuluk Formation and Niakogon Tongue Surface indication of faulting-- - - - - - - - - - - - of the Chandler Formation, undifferenti- Subsurface indication of faulting--- - - - - -- - ated--------------------------------- Seismograph survey-- --- - -- --- - - -- -- -- - - Colville Group- - - - --- -- -- -- - - - - - -- - -- - - - -- - Square Lake anticline- - -------- - --- --- -- --- - Structure on the lower Colville River ----__---- Seabee Formation ------------------_-_-_ Age of folding .............................. Lower shale member- --------------- Oil and gas resources ................................ Calcareous sandstone member..- - - - - - _ Heavy mineral studies of the Umiat-Maybe Creek region, Upper shale member- - ----------____ by Robert H. Morris .............................. Ayiyak Member .................... Description of heavy minerals ---- -- --- - _ _ - _ _-_ -_- Schrader Bluff Formation --------_------- Heavy-mineral zones--.. - - - --- - -- _ _ - - - - _ - - _ -- -- _ _ Rogers Creek Member ---------_---__ Zones in the subsurface .......................... Interpretation- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ - - - - - - - Barrow Trail Member -------__-_-___ - - - - - _ - Lithology and paleontology of samples from shotholes Sentinel Hill Member.. - - ----_---_-__ near Umiat-------------------------------------- Lower part ..................... References cited ---------- .......................... Upper part Index--------------------------------------------- ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates me in pocket] PLATE 52. Geologic map and sections (2 sheets, east and west halves). 53. Correlated columnar sections of Lower Cretaceous rocks. 54. Correlated columnar sections of Upper Cretaceous rocks. 55. Geologic sketch map and section of the Knifeblade anticline in the vicinity of the Knifeblade test wells. 56. Geologic and structure contour map and cross sections of Umiat anticline. 57. Relative abundance of nonopaque heavy minerals in the Umiat-Maybe Creek region. 58. Microfossil occurrences in shotholes near Umiat. IV CONTENTS Page FIGURE 92. Index map of Alaska showing Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and Umiat-Maybe Creek region- _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ 502 93. Stratigraphic column giving nomenclature of outcropping Cretaceous rocks__-_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 509 94. Section showing correlation of Lower Cretaceous rocks- _ - _ ---------..----- -___-_---_______---______ 510 95. Section showing formations in the Nanushuk Group near Knifeblade Ridge and south of the Colville River- 514 96. Photograph of Ninuluk and Seabee Formations at September Creek ---------_____------------------- 520 97. Maps showing grain size and thickness of the lower and upper units of sandstone 1 and of sandstone 2 in the Maybe Creek area--__---__________-------------------------------------------------------- 98. Map showing thickness and fossil localities of Ninuluk Formation and Niakogon Tongue of Chandler Formation_-______-_------------------------------------------------------________----_---- 99. Columnar sections showing stratigraphic position of fossils collected from Ninuluk Formation and Niakogon Tongue of Chandler Formation_-----------------_____----------------________________________ 100. Map showing thickness and fossil localities of Seabee Formation ---------_-_-_______________________ 101. Columnar sections showing stratigraphic position of fossils collected from Seabee Formation-- - _ _ _ _ _ _ - - - 102-104. Photographs: 102. Bluff at UmiatMountain_--_------------..----__---------------------_-____________---__ 103. Seabee Formation in east half of bluff at Umiat Mountain_-_____-----______________-________ 104. Shale of Seabee Formation on September Creek --___-------..-------_____________---________ 105. Diagram of restored section of the Seabee Formation on Maybe Creek along line A-A' of figure 100- _ _ - 106. Map showing grain size and thickness of sandstone 4 of Seabee Formation- --________________--______ 107. Map showing fossil collections from outcrops of Schrader Bluff and Prince Creek Formation_-___ _ _ _ _ _ _ - 108. Columnar sections showing stratigraphic position of fossils collected from the Tuluvak Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation and the Rogers Creek and Barrow Trail Members of the Schrader Bluff Formation- 109. Columnar sections showing stratigraphic position of fossils collected from the Sentinel Hill Member of the Schrader Bluff Formation and the Kogosukruk Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation- _ _ _ _ _ - - - - _ _ _ _ 110. Maps showing- grain- size and thickness of sandstones 7, 8, and 9 of the Tuluvak Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation------------------------------..-------------------------------------------- 111. Correlated columnar sections of lower part of Kogosukruk Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation- _ _ _ _ - 112. Photograph of basal conglomerate of Kogosukruk Tongue of the Prince Creek Formation- - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 113. Map and sections showing lithology and thickness of Gubik Formation ----- --___---------- ----- --- --- 114. Section showing location of base of Gubik Formation near Wolf Creek ----- - --_-----_--_-_____-_-____ 115. Structure-contour map of unconformity at base of Gubik Formation- - -------_______________-----___ 116. Section through flood plain at Umiat _---___------------------------..---------------------------- 117. Generalized structure-contour map of top of Seabee Formation- - - ------ ---- --___-_-_-_-____- -- - -___ 118. Schematic sections of Weasel Creek anticline- --___----____--------------------------------------- 119. Photogeologic sketch map of Weasel Creek anticline fault zone- -_- ----------_______________---..---- 120. Sections showing structure along lower Colville River- _ _ __ - - .......................... ..----------- 121. Photograph of folded coal beds in Colville River bluffs- _ _ _ --__-------------_______________-------. 122. Diagram showing correlation of stratigraphic section 2 with Knifeblade test well 2A--_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - STRATIGRAPHIC SECTIONS Lower Creheeana rocks Page SECTION1. Chandler Formation on Colville River at Aupuk anticline ............................................ 609 2. Chandler and Grandstand Formations south of Knifeblade Ridge- - - - - - - --.--- ---------- ---------- -- -- 612 3. Grandstand Formation on Knifeblade Ridge- _ -- - - - - - ............................... ----------- --- - 614 4.
Recommended publications
  • Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Mid-Cretaceous Rocks in Minnesota and Contiguous Areas
    Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Mid-Cretaceous Rocks in Minnesota and Contiguous Areas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1253 Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Mid-Cretaceous Rocks in Minnesota and Contiguous Areas By WILLIAM A. COBBAN and E. A. MEREWETHER Molluscan Fossil Record from the Northeastern Part of the Upper Cretaceous Seaway, Western Interior By WILLIAM A. COBBAN Lower Upper Cretaceous Strata in Minnesota and Adjacent Areas-Time-Stratigraphic Correlations. and Structural Attitudes By E. A. M EREWETHER GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1 2 53 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1983 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR JAMES G. WATT, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L. Peck, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Cobban, William Aubrey, 1916 Stratigraphy and paleontology of mid-Cretaceous rocks in Minnesota and contiguous areas. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1253) Bibliography: 52 p. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.16 A. Molluscan fossil record from the northeastern part of the Upper Cretaceous seaway, Western Interior by William A. Cobban. B. Lower Upper Cretaceous strata in Minnesota and adjacent areas-time-stratigraphic correlations and structural attitudes by E. A. Merewether. I. Mollusks, Fossil-Middle West. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Cretaceous. 3. Geology-Middle West. 4. Paleontology-Cretaceous. 5. Paleontology-Middle West. I. Merewether, E. A. (Edward Allen), 1930. II. Title. III. Series. QE687.C6 551.7'7'09776 81--607803 AACR2 For sale by the Distribution Branch, U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • The Wunstorf Drilling Project
    Progress Reports The Wunstorf Drilling Project: Coring a Global Stratigraphic Reference Section of the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 by Jochen Erbacher, Jörg Mutterlose, Markus Wilmsen, Thomas Wonik, and the Wunstorf Drilling Scientific Party doi:10.0/iodp.sd..0.007 section. Disciplines involved include micropaleontology Introduction and Goals (calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera), macro- paleontology (ammonites, inoceramids), stable isotopes and The mid-Cretaceous greenhouse world (Albian–Turonian) cyclostratigraphy mainly based on borehole logging, multi was characterized by high atmospheric carbon dioxide sensor core logging���������������������������������������,�������������������������������������� and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) scanning levels, much higher global temperatures than at present�����,���� and data. The combination of geochemical, paleontological�����,���� and a lack of permanent ice caps at the poles (Bice et al., 2006; logging data will allow high resolution chemo- and biostra- Huber et al., 2002; Wilson et al., 2002). A characteristic tigraphy for the CTB�������������������������������������I������������������������������������ which may in ����������������������the future������������������ serve as an feature of this greenhouse world was the deposition of black international standard. shales during the Cenomanian / Turonian boundary interval (CTBI; Schlanger and Jenkyns, 1976; Arthur et al., 1990). The Wunstorf Core These carbon�����������������������������������������������-����������������������������������������������rich
    [Show full text]
  • Phylogeny, Diversity, and Ecology of the Ammonoid Superfamily Acanthoceratoidea Through the Cenomanian and Turonian
    PHYLOGENY, DIVERSITY, AND ECOLOGY OF THE AMMONOID SUPERFAMILY ACANTHOCERATOIDEA THROUGH THE CENOMANIAN AND TURONIAN DAVID A.A. MERTZ A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE August 2017 Committee: Margaret Yacobucci, Advisor Andrew Gregory Keith Mann © 2017 David Mertz All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Margaret Yacobucci Both increased extinction and decreased origination, caused by rising oceanic anoxia and decreased provincialism, respectively, have been proposed as the cause of the Cenomanian Turonian (C/T) extinction event for ammonoids. Conflicting evidence exists for whether diversity actually dropped across the C/T. This study used the ammonoid superfamily Acanthoceratoidea as a proxy for ammonoids as a whole, particularly focusing on genera found in the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) of North America, including Texas. Ultimately, this study set out to determine 1) whether standing diversity decreased across the C/T boundary in the WIS, 2) whether decreased speciation or increased extinction in ammonoids led to a drop in diversity in the C/T extinction event, 3) how ecology of acanthoceratoid genera changed in relation to the C/T extinction event, and 4) whether these ecological changes indicate rising anoxia as the cause of the extinction. In answering these questions, three phylogenetic analyses were run that recovered the families Acanthoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, and Vascoceratidae. Pseudotissotiidae was not recovered at all, while Coilopoceratidae was recovered but reclassified as a subfamily of Vascoceratidae. Seven genera were reclassified into new families and one genus into a new subfamily. After calibrating the trees with stratigraphy, I was able to determine that standing diversity dropped modestly across the C/T boundary and the Early/Middle Turonian boundary.
    [Show full text]
  • Upper Cenomanian–Lower Turonian Ammonoids from the Saxonian Cretaceous (Lower Elbtal Group, Saxony, Germany)
    Upper CenomanianLower Turonian ammonoids from the Saxonian Cretaceous (lower Elbtal Group, Saxony, Germany) MARKUS WILMSEN & EMAD NAGM The Upper Cenomanian to Lower Turonian ammonoid fauna of the Saxonian Cretaceous (Elbtal Group, Saxony, Ger- many) has been revised based on the study of 270 specimens hosted in the Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie (MMG) of the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden. In total, 12 species have been identified and, based on this revision, a number of ammonoids are now reported and/or illustrated for the first time from the Elbtal Group of Saxony: Euomphaloceras septemseriatum, Neocardioceras juddii barroisi, Watinoceras coloradoense, Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) reveliereanus, Sciponoceras gracile and Scaphites equalis. The study demonstrated the presence of all Upper Cenomanian and Lower Turonian standard ammonite biozones in the lithostratigraphic succession of the lower Elbtal Group: the lower Upper Cenomanian Calycoceras naviculare Zone (represented by the Oberhäslich For- mation), the mid- and upper Upper Cenomanian Metoicoceras geslinianum and Neocardioceras juddii zones (repre- sented by the Dölzschen Formation), and the Lower Turonian Watinoceras coloradoense and Mammites nodosoides zones (represented by the Brießnitz Formation). The ammonoid fauna from the Saxonian Cretaceous is dominated by strongly ornamented and widely distributed Acanthoceratidae. • Key words: Upper Cretaceous, Saxo-Bohemian Creta- ceous Basin, ammonites, taxonomic revision, biostratigraphy. WILMSEN,M.&NAGM, E. 2013. Upper Cenomanian–Lower Turonian ammonoids from the Saxonian Cretaceous (lower Elbtal Group, Saxony, Germany). Bulletin of Geosciences 88(3), 647–674 (18 figures). Czech Geological Sur- vey, Prague. ISSN 1214-1119. Manuscript received September 26, 2012; accepted in revised form January 25, 2013; published online July 3, 2013; issued July 3, 2013.
    [Show full text]
  • Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of an Upper Cretaceous Outlier Near Roy, Harding County, New Mexico
    New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 52nd Field Conference, Geology ofthe Llano Estacado, 2001 251 STRATIGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF AN UPPER CRETACEOUS OUTLIER NEAR ROY, HARDING COUNTY, NEW MEXICO SPENCER G. LUCASI AND ANDREW B. HECKERT2 INew Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, 87104; 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1116 Abstract.-Upper Cretaceous strata exposed as outliers near Roy in Harding County, New Mexico, are assigned to the Graneros Shale and the overlying Greenhorn Formation. The Greenhorn Formation locally consists of three members (in ascending order): Lincoln, Hartland, and Bridge Creek. The Lincoln Member is 8.3 m thick and dominated by yellowish gray and very pale orange calcareous shale and characteristic persistent beds of calcarenite. The Hartland Member is 11.0 m thick and consists mostly of medium and brownish gray bentonitic shale. The Bridge Creek Member here is erosionally truncated by the Neogene Ogallala Formation 4.1 m above its base and consists of interbeds ofledge­ forming limestone and calcareous shale. Fossils from the Lincoln Member include numerous specimens of the bivalve Ostrea beloiti Logan and of the selachian Ptychodus anonymus Williston. The Hartland Member lacks biostratigraphic ally significant fossils. The Bridge Creek Member produces the ammonites Euomphaloceras sp. and Sciponoceras gracile (Shumard) near its base and Watinoceras coloradoense (Henderson) and Vascoceras birchbyi Cobban and Scott near its top. These fossils can be assigned to the upper Cenomanian Sciponoceras gracile ammonite zone and the lower Turonian Vascoceras birchbyi ammonite zone. Younger ammonite zones normally present in the Bridge Creek Member are not present at Roy, having been stripped offby Neogene erosion.
    [Show full text]
  • The Turonian Stage and Substage Boundaries by Peter BENGTSON (Compiler) with Contributions by William A
    BULLETIN DE L'INSTITUT ROYAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE BELGIQUE SCIENCES DE LA TERRE, 66-SUPP.: 69-79, 1996 BULLETIN VAN HET KONINKLIJK BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN AARDWETENSCHAPPEN, 66-SUPP.: 69-79. 1996 The Turonian stage and substage boundaries by Peter BENGTSON (compiler) with contributions by William A. Cobban, Paul Dodsworth, Andrew S. Gale, William James Kennedy, Marcos A. Lamolda, Tatsuro Matsumoto, Richard A. Reyment, Ekbert Seibertz and Karl-Armin Tröger. «golden spike») abb CeHOMaHO-TypoHCKOÏi rpaHHLtbl flonxeH Abstract öbiTb onpeflenëH b pa3pe3e Rock Canyon Anticline, Ha 3anane Pueblo, Konopaflo, CLUA, b ocHOBaHUM Gnoa 86, Formai définitions of the Cenomanian-Turonian and lower-middle coBnaflaioiuero c nepBbiM noHB/ieHHeM aMMOHHTa Turonian are boundaries proposed, following discussions at the Second watinoceras devonense (wright & kennedy, 1981). B International Symposium on Cretaceous Stage Boundaries, held in KanecTBe gssp ahh HUXHe-cpeAHeü TypoHcxoft rpaHHLtbl Brussels, 8-16 September 1995. The Global boundary Stratotype Sec¬ 6bi.no npeanoxteHO nepBoe noHBneHHe aMMOHHTa tion and Point (GSSP, "golden spike") for the Cenomanian-Turonian Collignonoceras woollgari (mantell, 1822) Toro xce boundary should be placed at the base of Bed 86 in a section at Rock pa3pe3a(CnoPi 120). Hto KacaeTca cpeAHe-Bepxnero Canyon Anticline, west of Pueblo, Colorado, USA, coincident with the TypoHa, to Ha AaHHbiü MOMeHT npeftnoxmb KaKoü-nn6o gssp first occurrence of the ammonite Watinoceras devonense Wright & He npeACTaBnseTCB B03M0)KHbiM. Kennedy, 1981. A GSSP for the lower-middle Turonian boundary is proposed at the level of first occurrence of the ammonite Collignoni- KnioHeBbie cnosa: TypoHCKwü npyc, BepxHMû Men, ceras woollgari (Mantell, 1822) in the same section (Bed 120).
    [Show full text]
  • Pa 67-72.Pdf
    GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA C A NADA PAPE R 67 - 72 MACROFOSSIL ZONES OF THE MARINE CRETACEOUS OF TH E WESTERN INTERIOR OF CANADA AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH THE ZONES AND ST AGES OF EUROPE AND THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF THE UNITED STATES J. A. Jeletzky DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY , MINES AND RESOURCES @ Crown Copyrights reserved Available by mail from the Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geolog ical Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian Government bookshops: HALIFAX 1735 Barrington Street MONTREAL .tEterna-Vie Building, 1182 St. Catherine St. West OTTAWA Daly Building, Corner Mackenzie and Rideau TORONTO 221 Yonge Street WINNIPEG Mall Center Bldg., 499 Portage Avenue VANCOUVER 657 Granville Street or through your bookseller Price $1. 50 Catalogue No. M44-67-72 Price subject to change without notice ROGER DUHAMEL, F.R.S.C. Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1968 - iii - CONTENTS Page Abstract v Introduction and acknowl edgments .......•.. •..• .....•....... • . Biochronolog i cally useful fossils •...•..•.•..•..•..••........• 2 Boundaries and major divisions of the Cretaceous system .••..•• 3 Lower Cretaceous series .....•.•..•...•..•.•...........•. 5 Neocomian stage .•.••..•.•.•• ..•..• .. .•••..••••.•..• 5 Berriasian substage 6 Valanginian substage 8 Hauterivian substage 10 Barremian substage ...•..•....•.••.•..•.••.••.•... 11 Aptian substage .••..•.• ..• .•.. ...•..•.•.....•. •• . • 13 Albian stage .....•.•.•...•.•...•.•..............•.•.• 14 Age of Neogastroplites zones and the L owe r/Upper
    [Show full text]
  • MSU Billings Government Documents Weeding List I 19.3 Numbers 1700’S
    MSU Billings Government Documents Weeding List I 19.3 Numbers 1700’s I 19.3: 1701-A 1987 Mineral resources of the big horn mountain wilderness study area, Maricopa county, Arizona I 19.3: 1701-B 1987 Mineral resources of the lower burro creek wilderness study area, Mohave and Yavapai counties I 19.3: 1701-C 1988 Mineral resources of the harquahala mountains wilderness study area I 19.3: 1701-E 1989 Mineral resources of the arrastra mountain/peoples canyon wilderness study area I 19.3: 1701-G 1990 Mineral resources of the rawhide mountains wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-A 1988 Mineral resources of the table top mountain wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-B 1989 Mineral resources of the new water mountains wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-C 1989 Mineral resources of the signal mountain wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-D 1989 Mineral resources of the muggings mountains wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-E 1989 Mineral resources of the baboquivari peak and coyote mountains wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-F 1989 Mineral resources of the Woolsey peak wilderness study area I 19.3: 1702-G 1989 Mineral resources of the eagletail mountains wilderness study area (WSA) I 19.3: 1702-H 1989 Mineral resources of the ragged top WSA I 19.3: 1702-I 1989 Mineral resources of the Sierra Estralla WSA I 19.3: 1702-J 1989 Mineral resources of the trigo mountains WSA I 19.3: 1702-K 1990 Mineral resources of the kofa unit 4 north wilderness study area I 19.3: 1703-A 1987 Mineral resources of the fishhooks WSA I 19.3: 1703-B 1987 Mineral resources of
    [Show full text]
  • Retallack 2011 Lagerstatten
    This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with colleagues. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier’s archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright Author's personal copy Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 307 (2011) 59–74 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo Exceptional fossil preservation during CO2 greenhouse crises? Gregory J. Retallack Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA article info abstract Article history: Exceptional fossil preservation may require not only exceptional places, but exceptional times, as demonstrated Received 27 October 2010 here by two distinct types of analysis. First, irregular stratigraphic spacing of horizons yielding articulated Triassic Received in revised form 19 April 2011 fishes and Cambrian trilobites is highly correlated in sequences in different parts of the world, as if there were Accepted 21 April 2011 short temporal intervals of exceptional preservation globally. Second, compilations of ages of well-dated fossil Available online 30 April 2011 localities show spikes of abundance which coincide with stage boundaries, mass extinctions, oceanic anoxic events, carbon isotope anomalies, spikes of high atmospheric carbon dioxide, and transient warm-wet Keywords: Lagerstatten paleoclimates.
    [Show full text]
  • Mesa Verde National Park Paleontological Resource Inventory (Non-Sensitive Version)
    National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Mesa Verde National Park Paleontological Resource Inventory (Non-Sensitive Version) Natural Resource Report NPS/MEVE/NRR—2017/1550 ON THE COVER An undescribed chimaera (ratfish) egg capsule of the ichnogenus Chimaerotheca found in the Cliff House Sandstone of Mesa Verde National Park during the work that led to the production of this report. Photograph by: G. William M. Harrison/NPS Photo (Geoscientists-in-the-Parks Intern) Mesa Verde National Park Paleontological Resources Inventory (Non-Sensitive Version) Natural Resource Report NPS/MEVE/NRR—2017/1550 G. William M. Harrison,1 Justin S. Tweet,2 Vincent L. Santucci,3 and George L. San Miguel4 1National Park Service Geoscientists-in-the-Park Program 2788 Ault Park Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 2National Park Service 9149 79th St. S. Cottage Grove, Minnesota 55016 3National Park Service Geologic Resources Division 1849 “C” Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 4National Park Service Mesa Verde National Park PO Box 8 Mesa Verde CO 81330 November 2017 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado, publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics. These reports are of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. The Natural Resource Report Series is used to disseminate comprehensive information and analysis about natural resources and related topics concerning lands managed by the National Park Service.
    [Show full text]
  • A Revision of the Turonian Members of the Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae from the United States Western Interior and Gulf Coast
    BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Tuesday Nov 20 2001 04:35 PM 2000 amnb 01235 Mp_1 Allen Press x DTPro System File # 01235TQ A REVISION OF THE TURONIAN MEMBERS OF THE AMMONITE SUBFAMILY COLLIGNONICERATINAE FROM THE UNITED STATES WESTERN INTERIOR AND GULF COAST W. JAMES KENNEDY Curator, Geological Collections University Museum of Natural History Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, United Kingdom e-mail: [email protected] WILLIAM A. COBBAN Research Associate, Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates) American Museum of Natural History Home address: 70 Estes St., Lakewood, CO 80226 NEIL H. LANDMAN Curator, Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates) American Museum of Natural History e-mail: [email protected] BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 79TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10024 Number 267, 148 pp., 124 ®gures, 13 tables Issued December 13, 2001 Copyright q American Museum of Natural History 2001 ISSN 0003-0090 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Tuesday Nov 20 2001 04:35 PM 2000 amnb 01235 Mp_2 Allen Press x DTPro System File # 01235TQ 2 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 267 CONTENTS Abstract ....................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................... 3 Localities of Illustrated Fossils ................................................... 4 Biostratigraphic Distribution of the Collignoniceratinae ............................. 13 Variation Within the Collignoniceratinae .........................................
    [Show full text]
  • The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Ammonite Family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States
    The UpperA Jt Cretaceous (Turonian)\ / Ammonite Family Goilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1192 The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Ammonite Family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States By WILLIAM A. COBBAN and STEPHEN C. HOOK GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1192 Coilopoceras, Hoplitoides, and Herrickiceras, chiefly found in New Mexico, provide a means for the correlation of Cretaceous rocks between the Western Interior, South America, Africa, and Europe UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1980 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY H. William Menard, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Cobban, William Aubrey, 1916- The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1192) Bibliography: p. 24 Supt. of Docs, no: I 19.16 1. Coilopoceratidae. 2. Paleontology Cretaceous. 3. Paleontology The West. I. Hook, Stephen C., joint author. II. Title. III. Series: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1192. QE807.A5C64 564'.53 80-607086 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt Continued Abstract................................................ 1 Genus Coilopoceras Hyatt, 1903 ................. 11 Introduction ...........................................
    [Show full text]