Ackerman, R. V., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., in press, Synsedimentary collapse of portions of the lower Blomidon Formation, Fundy rift basin, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Earth Science.
Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D. V., in press, Milankovitch climate forcing in the tropics of Pangea during the Late Triassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology.
1996:
Olsen, P. E., Kent, D V., Cornet, B., Witte, W. K., and Schlische, R. W., 1996, High-resolution stratigraphy of the Newark rift basin (Early Mesozoic, Eastern North America): Geological Society of America Bulliten, v. 108, no. 1, p. 40-77.
1995:
Kent, D. V., Olsen, P. E., and Witte, W. K., 1995, Late Triassic-Early Jurassic geomagnetic polarity sequence and paleolatitudes from drill cores in the Newark rift basin (Eastern North America). Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 100, p. 14965-14998.
Withjack, O. M., Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1995, Tectonic evolution of the Fundy rift basin, Canada: Evidence of extension and shortening during passive margin development. Tectonics, v. 14, no. 2, p. 390-405.
Olsen, P. E., 1995, Paleontology and paleoenvironments of Early Jurassic age strata in the Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park (New Jersey, USA). Geological Association of New Jersey, Vol. 12, J. E. B. Baker (ed), Proceedings of a Symposium, Field Trips, and Teachers Workshop on the Topic - Contributions to the Paleontology of New Jersey, The William Patterson College, Patterson, Wayne, NJ, 156-190 p.
1994:
Goldberg, D., Reynolds, D., Williams, C., Witte, W. K., Olsen, P. E., and Kent, D. V., 1994, Well logging results from the Newark Rift Basin Coring Project. Scientific Drilling, 4 (4-6), pp. 267-279.
Olsen, P. E. and Johansson, A. K., 1994, Field guide to Late Triassic tetrapod sites in Virginia and North Carolina (Culpeper, Richmond, and Dan River Basins, Newark Supergroup): in Sues, H. D. and Fraser, N. (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, in Fraser, N. C. and Sues, H. D. (eds.), Cambridge University Press, p. 408-430.
Fowell, S. J., Cornet, B., and Olsen, P. E., 1994, Geologically rapid Late Triassic extinctions: Palynological evidence from the Newark Supergroup. In: Klein, G. D., (ed.) Pangaea: Paleoclimate, Tectonics and Sedimentation During Accretion, Zenith and Break-up of a Supercontinent. Geological Society of America Special Paper 288, p. 197-206.
Shubin, N. H., Olsen, P. E., and Sues, H. D., 1994, Early Jurassic small tetrapods from the McCoy Brook Formation of Nova Scotia Canada: in N. C. Fraser and H. D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, Cambridge University Press, p. 242-250.
Smoot, J. P. and Olsen, P. E., 1994, Climatic cycles as sedimentary controls of rift basin lacustrine deposits in the early Mesozoic Newark basin based on continuous core. in Lomando, A. J. and Harris, M., Lacustrine Depositional Systems, SEPM Core Workshop Notes, v. 19, p. 201-237.
Sues, H., Olsen, P. E. and Kroehler, P. A., 1994, Small tetrapods from the Upper Triassic of the Richmond basin (Newark Supergroup Virginia: in N. C. Fraser and H. D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs, Cambridge University Press, p. 161-170.
Sues, H.-D., Shubin, N. H., and Olsen, P. E., 1994, A new sphenodontian (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the McCoy Brook Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 14, no. 3, p. 327-340.
1993:
Fowell, S. J., and Olsen, P. E., 1993. Time-calibration of Triassic/Jurassic microfloral turnover, eastern North America. Tectonophysics v. 222, p. 361-369.
Sues, H.-D. and Olsen, P. E., 1993, A new procolophonid and a new tetrapod of uncertain, possibly procolophonian affinities from the upper Triassic of Virginia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 13, no. 3, p. 282-286.
Sues, H.-D., Baird, D., and Olsen, P. E., 1993, Redescription of Sphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus Colbert, 1960 (Reptilia) and a reassessment of its affinities: Annals of the Carnegie Museum, v. 62, no. 3, p. 245-253.
1992:
Behrensmeyer, A. K., Hook, R. W., Badgley, C. E., Boy, J. A., Chapman, R. E., Dodson, P., Gastaldo, R. A., Graham, R. W., Martin, L. D., Olsen, P. E., Spicer, R. A., Taggart, R. E., and Wilson, M. V. H., 1992, Paleoenvironmental context and taphonomic modes. in Behrensmeyer, A. K., Damuth, J. D., DiMichel, W. A., Potts, R., Sues, H. D., and Wing, S. L. (eds.) Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time, ETE, University of Chicago Press, p. 16-136.
Olsen, P. E., McDonald, N. G., Huber, P., and Cornet, B., 1992, Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Deerfield rift basin (Triassic-Jurassic, Newark Supergroup), Massachusetts: in Robinson, P. and Brady, J. B. (eds.) Guidebook for Field Trips in the Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts and Adjacent States (vol. 2), New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference 84th Annual Meeting, Contribution no. 66, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, p. 488-535.
1991:
Olsen, P. E. and McCune, A. R., 1991, Morphology of the Semionotus elegans species group from the Early Jurassic part of the Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America with comments on the family Semionotidae (Neopterygii). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11(3), 269-292.
Olsen, P. E., Froelich, A .J., Daniels, D. L., Smoot, J. P., and Gore, P. J. W., 1991, Rift basins of early Mesozoic age, in Horton, W., ed., Geology of the Carolinas, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, p. 142-170.
Shubin, N., Crompton, A. W., Sues, H.-D., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, New fossil evidence on the sister-group of mammals and early Mesozoic faunal distributions: Science, 251, 1063-1065.
Witte, W. K., Kent, D. V., and Olsen, P. E. , 1991, Magnetostratigraphy and paleomagnetic poles from Late Triassic-earliest Jurassic strata of the Newark basin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 103, p. 1648-1662.
1990:
Cornet, B., and Olsen, P. E., 1990, Early to Middle Carnian (Triassic) flora and Fauna of the Richmond and Taylorsville basins, Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A.: Virginia Museum of Natural History, Guidebook, no. 1, 83 p.
Olsen, P. E., 1990, Tectonic, climatic, and biotic modulation of lacustrine ecosystems: examples from the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America, in Katz, B. (ed.), Lacustrine Basin Exploration: Case Studies and Modern Analogs, American Association Petroleum Geologists Memoir 50, p. 209-224.
Olsen, P. E., Fowell, S. J., and Cornet, B., 1990, The Triassic-Jurassic boundary in continental rocks of eastern North America: a progress report: in Sharpton, V. L. and Ward, P. D. (eds.), Global Catastrophes in Earth History; an Interdisciplinary Conference on Impacts, Volcanism, and Mass Mortality, Geological Society of America Special Paper 247, 585-593.
Olsen, P. E. and Schlische, R. W., 1990, Transtensional arm of the early Mesozoic Fundy rift basin: penecontemporaneous faulting and sedimentation. Geology, 18, 695-698.
Olsen, P. E., and Kent, D., 1990, Continental Coring of the Newark Rift: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 71, 385, 394.
Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1990, Quantitative filling models for continental extensional basins with applications to the early Mesozoic rifts of eastern North America: Journal of Geology, 98, 135-155.
Sues, H.-D. and Olsen, P. E., 1990, Triassic vertebrates of Gondwana aspect from the Richmond basin of Virginia: Science, 249, 1020-1023.
1989:
Manspeizer, W., deBoer, J., Costain, J. K, Froelich, A. J, Çoruh, C., Olsen, P. E., McHone, G. J., Puffer, J. H., and Prowell, D.C., 1989, Post-Paleozoic activity. In Hatcher, R. D. Jr., Thomas, W. A., and Viele, G. W., eds., The Appalachian-Oachita Orogen in the United States: Boulder Colorado, Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. F2, p. 319-384.
Olsen, P. E. and Flynn, J., 1989, Field guide to the vertebrate paleontology of Late Triassic rocks in the southwestern Newark Basin (Newark Supergroup, New Jersey and Pennsylvania). The Mosasaur, 4, 1-35.
Olsen, P. E., Schlische, R. W., and Gore, P. J. W. (and others), 1989, Field Guide to the Tectonics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Newark Supergroup, eastern North America. International Geological Congress, Guidebooks for Field Trips T351, 174 p.
Olsen, P. E., 1989, South American reptiles found in Virginia: second Triassic extinction constrained in North America, Lamont Newsletter, 19, 4-5.
Padian, K. and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Ratite footprints and the stance and gait of Mesozoic Theropods: In M. Morales, and M. Lockley, Dinosaurian Tracks and Trace Fossils. Cambridge University Press, 231-242.
1988:
Olsen, P. E., 1988, Continuity of strata in the Newark and Hartford Basins of the Newark Supergroup: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1776, 6-18.
Olsen, P. E., 1988, Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Continental Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: In ed. W. Manspeizer, Triassic-Jurassic Rifting and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 185-230.
Olsen, P. E., Van Houten, F., and others, 1988, Field guide to the Late Triassic portion of the Newark basin section in the Delaware Valley, New Jersey: in Husch, J. M. and Hozic, M. J. (eds.), Geology of the Newark Basin, Field Guide and Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of New Jersey, Geological Association of New Jersey, Rider College, Lawrenceville, p. 233-289.
Olsen, P. E. and Schlische, R., 1988, Unraveling the rules of rifts. Lamont Yearbook. 1988, 26-31.
Olsen, P. E., Shubin, N. H. and Anders, P. E., 1988, Triassic-Jurassic extinctions [reply to comment by Padian]. Science, 241, 1359-1360.
Schlische, R. W. and Olsen, P. E., 1988, Structural evolution of the Newark basin: in Husch, J. M. and Hozic, M. J. (eds.), Geology of the Newark Basin, Field Guide and Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of New Jersey, Geological Association of New Jersey, Rider College, Lawrenceville, p. 44-65.
Smoot, J. and Olsen, P. E., 1988, Massive mudstones in basin analysis and paleoclimatic interpretation of the Newark Supergroup: W. Manspeizer, Triassic-Jurassic Rifting and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 249-274.
Spiker, E. C., Kurt, R. K., Hatcher, P., Gottfried, R. M., Horan, M. F. and Olsen, P. E., 1988, Source of kerogen in black shales from the Hartford and Newark basins, eastern U.S.: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1776, 63-68.
1987:
Olsen, P. E., Shubin, N. H. and Anders, P. E., 1987, New Early Jurassic tetrapod assemblages constrain Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinction event. Science, v. 237, p. 1025-1029.
Sues, H.-D., Olsen, P. E., and Shubin, N. H., 1987, A diapsid assemblages from the Lower Jurassic of Nova Scotia, Canada: in P. M. Currie and E. H. Koster (eds.), 4th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Drumheller: Short Papers: Occasional Papers of the Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology., v. 3, p. 205-207.
1986:
Olsen, P. E., 1986, A 40-million-year lake record of early Mesozoic climatic forcing. Science, v. 234, p. 842-848.
Olsen, P. E., 1986, Impact Theory: Is the past the key to the future? Lamont- Doherty Geological Observatory Yearbook , (1985-1986), p. 5-10.
Olsen, P. E., 1986, Discovery of earliest Jurassic reptile assemblage from Nova Scotia implies catastrophic end to Triassic: Lamont (Newsletter), v. 12, p. 1-3.
Olsen, P. E., 1986, Milankovitch cycles in Early Mesozoic rift basins of Eastern North America provide physical stratigraphy and time scale for understanding basin evolution: Lamont (Newsletter), v. 13, 5-6.
Olsen, P. E. and Baird, D., 1986, The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic Biostratigraphy: In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 61-87.
Olsen, P. E. and Padian, K., 1986, Earliest records of Batrachopus from the Southwest U.S., and a revision of some Early Mesozoic crocodilomorph ichnogenera: In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 259-273.
Olsen, P. E. and Sues, H.-D., 1986, Correlation of the continental Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sediments, and patterns of the Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod transition: In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 321-351.
1985:
Cornet, B. and Olsen, P. E., 1985, A summary of the biostratigraphy of the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America, with comments on early Mesozoic provinciality: In R. Weber (ed.) Symposio Sobre Flores del Triasico Tardio st Fitografia y Paleoecologia, Memoria. Proc. II) Latin-American Congress on Paleontology (1984), Instituto de Geologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, p. 67-81.
Froelich, A. J. and Olsen, P. E., 1985, Newark Supergroup, a revision of the Newark Group in eastern North America: U.S. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 946, p. 1-3.
Olsen, P. E., 1985, Constraints on the formation of lacustrine microlaminated sediments: U.S. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 946, p. 34-35.
Olsen, P. E., 1985, Distribution of organic-rich lacustrine rocks in the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 946, p. 61-64.
Smoot, J. and Olsen, P. E., 1985, Massive mudstones in basin analysis and paleoclimatic interpretation of the Newark Supergroup: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 946, p. 29-33.
Turner-Peterson, C. E., Olsen, P. E., Nuccio, V. F., 1985, Modes of uranium occurrence in the Newark Basin, New Jersey and Pennsylvania: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 946, p. 120-124.
1984:
Froelich, A .J. and Olsen, P. E., 1984, Newark Supergroup, a revision of the Newark Group in eastern North America: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1537-A, 1984, A55-A58.
Olsen, P. E., 1984, The skull and pectoral girdle of the parasemionotid fish Watsonulus eugnathoides from the Early Triassic Sakamena Group of Madagascar, with comments on the relationships of the holostean fishes: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology v. 4, p. 481-499.
Olsen, P. E., 1984, Periodicity of lake-level cycles in the Late Triassic Lockatong Formation of the Newark Basin (Newark Supergroup, New Jersey and Pennsylvania): In A. Berger, J. Imbrie, J. Hays, G. Kukla, B. Saltzman (eds.), Milankovitch and Climate, NATO Symposium, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Pt. 1, p. 129-146.
Olsen, P. E. and Galton, P.M., 1984, A review of the reptile and amphibian assemblages from the Stormberg of southern Africa, with special emphasis on the footprints and the age of the Stormberg: Palaeontologia africana, Haughton Memorial Volume, p. 92-116.
McCune, A. R., Thomson, K. S., and Olsen, P. E., 1984, Semionotid fishes from the Mesozoic Great Lakes of North America: In Echelle, A. A. and Kornfield, I. (eds.) , p. 27-44.
Padian, K. and Olsen, P. E., 1984, The fossil trackway Pteraichnus: not pterosaurian, but crocodilian: Jour. Paleo., v. 58, p. 178-184.
Padian, K. and Olsen, P. E., 1984, Footprints of the Komodo Dragon and the trackways of fossil reptiles: Copeia, 1984, p. 662-671.
1975-1982:
Olsen, P. E., McCune, A. R. and Thomson, K. S., 1982, Correlation of the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup by Vertebrates, principally fishes: American Journal of Science, v. 282, p. 1-44.
Olsen, P. E., 1981, Comment on "Eolian dune field of Late Triassic age, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia": Geology, v. 9, p. 557-561.
Manspeizer, W. and Olsen, P. E., 1981, Rift basins of the passive margin: tectonics, organic-rich lacustrine sediments, basin analysis. In W. Hobbs, III (ed.), Field Guide to the Geology of the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Tertiary rocks of New Jersey and the central Hudson Valley. New York: Petroleum Exploration Society of New York, p. 25-105.
Olsen, P. E., 1980, The Latest Triassic and Early Jurassic Formations of the Newark Basin (Eastern North America, Newark Supergroup): Stratigraphy, Structure, and Correlation: New Jersey Academy of Science Bulletin, v. 25, p. 25-51.
Olsen, P. E., 1980, Comparison of the vertebrate assemblages from the Newark and Hartford basins (Early Mesozoic, Newark Supergroup) of eastern North America: In Jacobs, L. L. (ed.), Aspects of Vertebrate History. Flagstaff, Museum of Northern Arizona Press, p. 35-53.
Olsen, P. E., 1980, Fossil great: lakes of the Newark Supergroup in New Jersey: In W. Manspeizer (ed.), Field Studies in New Jersey Geology and Guide to Field Trips, 52nd Ann. Mtg. New York State Geol. Assoc., Newark College of Arts and Sciences, Newark, Rutgers University, p. 352-398.
Olsen, P. E., 1980, Triassic and Jurassic formations of the Newark Basin: In W. Manspeizer (ed.), Field Studies in New Jersey Geology and Guide to Field Trips, 52nd Ann. Mtg. New York State Geol. Assoc., Newark College of Arts and Sciences, Newark, Rutgers University, p. 2-39.
Olsen, P. E., 1979, New aquatic eosuchian from the Newark Supergroup (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic) of North Carolina and Virginia: Postilla, v. 176, 14 p.
Olsen, P. E., 1978, On the use of the term Newark for Triassic and Early Jurassic rocks of eastern North America: Newsletters on Stratigraphy, v. 7, p. 90-95.
Olsen, P. E., Remington, C. L., Cornet, B., and Thomson, K. S., 1978, Cyclic change in Late Triassic lacustrine communities: Science, v. 201, p. 729-733.
Olsen, P. E., 1977, Stop 1 - Triangle Brick Quarry: In G. L. Bain and B. W. Harvey (eds.), Field Guide to the Geology of the Durham Triassic Basin, Raleigh: Carolina Geological Society. p. 59-60.
Olsen, P. E. and Galton, P.M., 1977, Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinctions: are they real? Science, v. 197, p. 983-986.
Olsen, P. E., 1975, The Microstratigraphy of the Roseland Quarry (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup, New Jersey): Open File Report, Essex County Park Commission, Newark, New Jersey, 84 p.
Ph.D. Thesis
Olsen, P. E., 1984, Comparative Paleolimnology of the Newark Supergroup: A Study of Ecosystem evolution: Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Biology Department, Yale University, 724 p.
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