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The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America: Volume 2

Edited by Peter M. LeTourneau and Paul E. Olsen

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Volume 2
June, 2003
Cloth, 248 pages, 151 line, 68 H/T
ISBN: 978-0-231-12676-2
Edinburgh University Press
$112.00

1. Introduction to Vol 2, by Peter M. LeTourneau and Paul E. Olsen

Part I: Rift Basin Sedimentology and Stratigraphic Architecture

2. Introduction, by Peter M. LeTourneau

3. Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Rift Basin Stratigraphic Architecture: An Example from the Late Triassic Taylorsville Basin, by Virginia, Peter M. LeTourneau

4. Tectonostratigraphy of the Orpheus Graben, Scotian Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada and Relationship to the Fundy Rift Basin, by Lawrence H. Tanner and David E. Brown

5. Provenance of Sandstones in the Center of the Durham Sub-Basin, North Carolina, by James P. Gilmer, Daniel A. Textoris, and Mary E. Watson

6. Paleosols and Paleoclimate Evolution, Durham Sub-Basin, North Carolina, by Brian P. Coffey and Daniel A. Textoris

7. Meandering-River Facies in the Upper Triassic New Haven Arkose, South-Central Connecticut: Early Evolution of the Hartford Rift Basin, by Dennis P. McInerney and John F. Hubert

8. Edogenic Record of Paleoclimate and Basin Evolution in the Triassic-Jurassic Fundy Rift Basin, Eastern Canada, by Lawrence H. Tanner

9. Organic Geochemistry of Exposures of the Shuttle Meadow and Portland Formations of the Hartford Basin (Newark Supergroup Ct), by Trudy Dickneider, S. Mary Ellen Murphy, Robert Sallavanti, Kenneth Stephens

Part II: Triassic-Jurassic Assemblages and Faunal Change

10. Introduction, by Hans-Dieter Sues and Emma C. Rainforth

11. Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biochronology of the Nonmarine Late Triassic, by Spencer G. Lucas and Phillip Huber.

12. New Perspectives on Triassic Insect Diversity as Revealed by a Locality in the Danville Basin, Virginia, Newark Supergroup, by Nicholas C. Fraser and David A. Grimaldi

13. Early Jurassic Insects from the Newark Supergroup, Northeastern United States, by Phillip Huber, Nicholas G. McDonald, Paul E. Olsen, and Jiri Zidek

14. Heart of Stone: The Brownstone Industry of Portland, Connecticut, by Alison C. Guinness

15. Dinosaur Trackways of Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, by James O. Farlow and Peter M. Galton.

16. A New Vertebrate Footprint Locality from the Late Triassic Passaic Formation Near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, by Michael J. Szajna and Brian W. Hartline

17. Osteometric Approaches to Trackmaker Assignment for the Newarksupergroup Ichnogenera: Grallator, Anchisauripus, and Eubrontes, by Joshua B. Smithland and James O. Farlow

18. Plateosaurus Foot Structure Suggests a Single Trackmaker for Eubrontes and Gigandipus Footprints, by Robert E. Weems.

19. The Early Jurassic Ornithischian Dinosaurian Ichnogenus Anomoepus, by Paul E. Olsen and Emma C. Rainforth

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About the Author

Peter M. LeTourneau is president of Mark GeoEnvironmental Sciences, L.L.C., and an associate research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Paul E. Olsen is A. D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

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