Triassic Environmental Change In Western North America
Project Acronym: CPCP-1 | 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.
The successor project CPCP-2 seeks to obtain a complete latest Triassic through Early Jurassic record.
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
Project News
Drilling Finished
2013-12-07
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Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Filling the Triassic Geochronologic Gap: A Continuous Cored Record of Continental Environmental Change in Western North America (CPCP)
- Proposed in:
- 2010
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Triassic, Jurassic
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 1(2)
- Drilled length:
- 852.33 m (3 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 852.33 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 852.33 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 100.0%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 100.0%
- Expedition #
- 5048
- Location
- North America, U.S.A., Arizona, U.S.A.
- Coordinates
- 35.0000, -110.0000
- Status
- Completed
- Internal ID
- ICDP-2010/05 (#1562)
Project Location
Project Timeline
Drilling
6 November - 7 December 2013
Full Proposal Approved
Workshop Held
8 - 11 May 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.