Triassic Environmental Change In Western North America
Project Acronym: CPCP1 | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5048
The Triassic Period (~252-202 Ma) witnessed the evolutionary appearance of modern terrestrial biota, the origin and rise to ecological dominance of dinosaurs, and dramatic climate changes on the continents. The complex of epicontinental basins in western Pangea, now exposed on the Colorado Plateau, preserves a rich low-paleolatitude biotic and paleoenvironmental terrestrial record from the Triassic.
Keywords: North America, USA, Chinle, Climate Change, Geochronology, Magneto Stratigraphy, Stratigraphy, Triassic
Cores are stored at University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Continental Scientific Drilling Facility, USA
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Drilling Finished
2013-12-07
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Drilling
6 November - 7 December 2013
Full Proposal Approved
Workshop Held
8 - 11 May 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.