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New Courses for Spring 2008

GEOL 4950 - Special topics: Landscape Evolution and Neotectonics

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GEOL 4950 - Special topics: Age of Mammals

New Publications from CSU Stanislaus Geology Faculty

R. Rogers, P. Mann, P. Emmet, and M. Venable, 2007, Colon fold-thrust belt of Honduras: Evidence for late Cretaceous collision between the continental Chortis block in P. Mann (ed) GSA Special Paper 428: Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate in Northern Central America, Geological Society of America Special Paper 428 p. 129-150.

R. Rogers and P. Mann, 2007, Transtensional deformation of the western Caribbean-North America plate boundary zone in P. Mann (ed) Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate in Northern Central America , Geological Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 37-64.

R. Rogers, P. Mann, and P. Emmet, 2007, Tectonic terranes of the Chortis block based on integration of regional aeromagnetic and geologic data in P. Mann (ed) Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate in Northern Central America, Geological Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 65-88.

R. Rogers, P. Mann, R. Scott, and L. Patino, 2007, Cretaceous intra-arc rifting, sedimentation, and basin inversion in east-central Honduras in P. Mann  (ed) GSA Special Paper 428: Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate in Northern Central America, Geological Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 89-128.

C. Demets, G. Mattioli, P. Jansma, R. Rogers, C. Tenorios, and H. Turner, 2007, Present motion and deformation of the Caribbean plate: Constraints from new GPS geodetic measurements from Honduras and Nicaragua, in P. Mann (ed) GSA Special Paper 428: Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate in Northern Central America, p. 21-37.

B. Jordan, H. Sigurdsson, S. Carey, S. Lundin, R. Rogers, B. Singer, and M. Barquero-Molina, 2007, Petrogenesis of Central American Tertiary ignimbrites and associated Caribbean Sea tephra in P. Mann  (ed) GSA Special Paper 428: Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate in Northern Central America p. 151-179.

Jordan B., Sigurdsson H., Carey S., Rogers, R., and Ehrenborg J., 2007, Geochemical variation along and across the Central American Miocene paleoarc in Honduras and Nicaragua, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71 p. 3581–3591.

Jordan B., Sigurdsson H., Carey S., Rogers, R., and Ehrenborg J., 2006, Geochemical correlation of Caribbean Sea tephra layers with ignimbrites, in Central America.in Neogene-Quaternary Continental Margin Volcanism: A Perspective from Mexico edited by Claus Siebe, José Luis Macías, and Gerardo J. Aguirre-Díaz, Geologic Society of America Special Paper 402, p. 175-208. 

Mann, P., Rogers, R., and Gahagan, L., 2006, Chapter 8, Overview of Plate tectonic history and its unsolved tectonic problem, in J. Buncdschud (ed) Central America : Geology, Resources, and Natural Hazards, Balkema Publishers, The Netherlands. p. 205 – 241.  

Sankey, J.T. and S. Baszio, eds. In Press. Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography. Indiana University Press. 252 pp. 

Sankey, J.T. In Press. Vertebrate paleoecology from microsites, Talley Mountain, upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA; pp.61-77. In: The Unique Role of Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography, J.T. Sankey, and S. Baszio (eds). Indiana University Press (Bloomington). 

Sankey, J.T. In Press. Diversity of Latest Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) small theropods and birds: teeth from the Lance and Hell Creek Formations, USA; pp 117-134. In: The Unique Role of Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography, J.T. Sankey, and S. Baszio (eds). Indiana University Press (Bloomington). 

Welsh, E. and Sankey, J.T. In Press. First dinosaur eggshells from Texas, USA: Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park; 166-177. In: The Unique Role of Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography, J.T. Sankey and S. Baszio (eds). Indiana University Press (Bloomington). 

Sankey, J.T., S. Atchley, L. Nordt, S. Dworkin, S. Driese. 2007. Vertebrates and paleoclimate from a Chasmosaurus mariscalensis bonebed, Late Cretaceous (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas; pp. 134-139, In: Ceratopsian Symposium Short Papers, Abstracts, and Programs. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Alberta, September 22-23, 2007. 

Nydam, R.L., J.G. Eaton, and J.T. Sankey. 2007. New taxa of transversely-toothed lizards (Squamata: Scincomorpha) and new information on the evolutionary history of "Teiids" Journal of Paleontology 81(3):538-549. 

Sankey, J.T. 2006. Turtles of the Upper Aguja Formation (Late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas; pp. 235-243. In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. Bulletin 35, S. Lucas and R. Sullivan (eds). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (Albuquerque).

Sankey, J.T., S. Atchley, L. Nordt, S. Dworkin, S. Driese. 2007. Dinosaurs and dirt: dinosaur paleoecology, paleosol stratigraphy, and isotope geochemistry from the upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous: late Campanian - early Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. 67th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, Volume 27, Supplement to Number 3, 140A. 

Sankey, J.T., S. Atchley, L. Nordt, S. Dworkin, S. Driese. 2007. Vertebrates and paleoclimate from a Chasmosaurus mariscalensis bonebed, Late Cretaceous (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas; pp. 134-139, In: Ceratopsian Symposium Short Papers, Abstracts, and Programs. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Alberta, September 22-23, 2007. 

Gasaway*, S., J. Sankey, N. Ortiz*, and V. Meredith*. 2007. Paleoecology of a Chasmosaurus mariscalensis bonebed, Late Cretaceous (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. 67th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, Volume 27, Supplement to Number 3, 79A. 

Sankey, J.T. 2006. Separating terrestrial from extraterrestrial effects on K/T extinctions: changes in vertebrates and climate during last 10 million years of the Cretaceous in southern North America. 66th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts of Papers 26(3):119A. 

Sankey, J.T. 2006. Late Cretaceous vertebrates and climate change in the southern Western Interior: Big Bend National Park, Texas, p. 31. In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. Bulletin 35, S. Lucas and R. Sullivan (eds). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (Albuquerque).

Sankey, J.T., In Press. Undergraduates doing research on Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and geology in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Gaea, Newsletter of the Association of Women Geoscientists.

 

 

 



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