Curriculum Vitae of Paul E. Olsen
(Pt. 3 - Abstracts)

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Abstracts

Olsen, P. E., 1995, Climate change and the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinctions. EOS, supplement, v. 76, no. 17, p. S186.

Tseng, H-Y., Gao, G, Onstott, T. C., Person, M., Swenson, J., Boone, D., Balkwill, D. Colwell. R., Griffin, T., Kieft, T., McKinley, J., Stevens, T., Nierzwicki-Bauer, S., Phelps, T., White, D.C., Ringelberg, D., Malinconico, M. A., Olsen, P. E., Burruss, R.C., and Miller, D., 1995, Subsurface bacteria in a Triassic basin: Fluid-flow model constraints. EOS, supplement, v. 76, no. 17, p. S150.

Fraser, N. G., Grimaldi, D. A., Olsen, P. E., and Axsmith, B. J., 1995, The fauna and flora of the Solite Quarry: a spectacular Late Triassic fossil lagerstaetten. Geological Society of America, Abracts with Programs, v. 27., p. 45.

Olsen, P. E., 1995, A new approach for recognizing track makers. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 27., p. 86.

Ackermann, R. V., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1995, Evaporite dissolution and associated collapse features of the Fundy basin: paleoenvironmental implications. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, in press.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., In Press, Summary of the Newark Basin Coring Project: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., In Press, Summary of the Newark Basin Coring Project. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union.

Olsen, P. E. and Johansson, A. K., In Press, Relationship between evolution of plants, consumers, and global climate: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology.

Olsen, P. E. and Kent, D.V., In Press, Overview of paleoclimatic results from the Newark Rift basin drilling project: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology.

Good, S. C., Yenik, L. A., Olsen, P. E., and McDonald, N. G., Non-marine molluscs from the Scots Bay Formation, Newark Supergroup (Early Jurassic), Nova Scotia: Taxonomic assessment and paleoecologic significance. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 3, p. 20.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, The terrestrial plant and herbivore arms race - a major control of Phanerozoic Atmospheric CO2?: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 3, p. 71.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Fowell, S., and Fedosh, M. S., 1993, Cyclostratigraphic time scale for the Late Triassic and earliest Jurassic based on continuous coring of the Newark basin in New Jersey. in: Lucas, S. G. and Morales, M., 1993, (eds.) The Nonmarine Triassic, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin No. 3, p. 122.

Kent, D. V., Witte, W. K., and Olsen, P. E., 1993, a complete Late Triassic magnetostratigraphy from the Newark basin: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 74, no. 16 (Supp.), p. 109.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., In Press, Summary of the Newark Basin Coring Project. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union.

Akermann, R. V., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1993, Triassic buried interstratal karst, Fundy basin, Canada: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 69.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, A high-resolution Late Triassic-Early Jurassic time scale: implications for mass extinctions. Geological Association of Canada, Program and Abstracts 1993, p. A-79.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, Rift basin patterns and processes: A time for remodelling? American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Olsen, P. E., 1993, The terrestrial plant and herbivore arms race - A major control of Phanerozoic atmospheric CO2? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 2 , p. 71.

El Tabakh, M. E., Schreiber, B. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, The nature of the transition between the Lockatong-Passaic formations of the Newark Supergroup (Newark Basin, New Jersey): a petrologic view: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 24, no. 3, p. 18.

El Tabakh, M. E., Schreiber, B. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Unexpected evaporites within the terrestrial strata of the Passaic Formation, Newark Basin, New Jersey: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76, no. 8, p. 1273-1274.

El Tabakh, M. E., Schreiber, B. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Distribution of evaporites and authigenic minerals in the Newark Supergroup (Triassic-Jurassic), Newark Basin, New Jersey: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76.

Fowell, S. J., Cornet, B., and Olsen, P. E., 1992. Palynomorph assemblages from cyclic sedimentary sequences of Late Triassic age. 8th International Palynological Congress, Program and Abstracts, p. 48.

Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Newark continental rift basin coring project. International Geological Congress, Kyoto,, Japan, Abstracts, v. 1, p. 30.

Olsen. P. E., 1992, Modulation of lacustrine ecosystems by tectonics, climate, and evolution. International Geological Congress, Kyoto,, Japan, Abstracts, v. 2, p. 306.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D.V., Reynolds, D., Cornet, B., and Witte, W. K., 1992, Evolutive spectral analysis of 24 million years of early Mesozoic orbital forcing from the lacustrine Newark rift basin cores. International Geological Congress, Kyoto, Abstracts, v. 1, p. 90.

Olsen, P. E., Withjack, M. O., and Schlische, R. W., 1992, Inversion as an integral part of rifting: an outcrop perspective from the Fundy basin, eastern North America: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 73, p. 562.

Reynolds, D. J. and Olsen, P. E., 1992, Seismic reflection and well log records of climate change in a non-marine basin: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 73, no. 43 (Supp.), p. 71.

Withjack, M. O., Olsen, P. E., and Link, M. H., 1992, Rifting and Inversion in the Bay of Fundy, Canada: a seismic perspective: EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 73, p. 563.

Kent, D. V., Olsen, P. E., and Witte, W. K., 1991, Late Triassic magnetostratigraphy from the Newark rift basin coring project: EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 72, no. 17 (Supp.), p. 101.

Olsen, P. E., Fowell, S., Cornet, B., and Witte, W. K., 1991, Calibration of a Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Time Scale Based on Orbitally Induced Lake Cycles. International Geological Congress, Abstracts 1990, 2, 2-547-548.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., and Cornet, B., 1991, Thirty million years of orbitally forced climate change from continental coring of the Newark rift basin: EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 72, no. 17 (Supp.), p. 269.

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Anatomy of a rift system: Triassic-Jurassic basins of eastern North America: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 75, no. 3, p. 667.

Schlische, R. W., Olsen, P. E., Cornet, and Silvestri, S. M., 1991, Preliminary analysis of Newark basin drilling project cores: Implications for basin tectonics: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 23, no. 5, p. 251.

Silvestri, S. M., Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Analysis of deformed tetrapod footprints from the Jacksonwald syncline of the Newark basin: Implications for the Triassic-Jurassic extinctions: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 23, no. 1, p. 127.

Withjack, M. O., Link, M. H., and Olsen, P. E., 1991, Structure, stratigraphy, and climate of the Mesozoic Chignecto subbasin, Bay of Fundy, Canada: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 75, p. 695.

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1990, Tectonic development of the Newark Rift basin: implications for the growth and evolution of half graben and their boundary faults: EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 71, no. 43 (Supp.), p. 1606.

Reynolds, D. J., Olsen, P. E., Stechler, M. S., and Burgess, C.F., 1990, Structural framework of the Newark basin, EOS: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 71, no. 43 (Supp.), p. 1605-1606.

Sues, H.-D. and Olsen, P. E., 1990, A Triassic Synapsid-dominated tetrapod assemblage of Gondwanan affinities from the Richmond basin of Virginia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 10 (supp. to no. 3), p. 45A.

Padian, K., and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Baird's two axioms of vertebrate paleontology. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Newsletter, 1989.

Olsen, P. E., Cornet, B., and McDonald, 1989, Cyclostratigraphy of the Chicopee Fish Bed and adjacent strata: implications for the palynostratigraphy of the Portland Formation (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 56.

Silvestri, SM. and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Ichnostratigraphy of the Jacksonwald Syncline: the last 7 million years of the Triassic. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 66.

Witte, W. K., Kent, D.V., and Olsen, P. E., 1989, Pre- and post-folding magnetization of the Late Triassic Passaic Formation sediment is southeast Pennsylvania. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs. v. 21, no. 2, p. 76-77.

Olsen, P. E., 1988, Tectonic, climatic, and biological modulation of lake sediments in the Newark Supergroup. AAPG Symposium, Snowbird, p. 12.

Olsen, P. E. and Cornet, B., 1988, The Triassic-Jurassic Boundary in eastern North America. Global Catastrophes in Earth History. Lunar and Planetary Institute - National Academy of Sciences, Symposium, Snowbird, p. 135-136.

Olsen, P. E. and Cornet, B., 1988, Evidence for early Mesozoic mass extinctions in eastern North American rift deposits (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup. IGCP Project 199, Rare Events in Geology, Berrichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Wein), v. 15, p. 20.

Olsen, P. E. and Fedosh, M. S., 1988, Duration of the early Mesozoic extrusive igneous episode in eastern North America determined by use of Milankovitch-type lake level cycles. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., v. 20, no. 1, v. 59.

Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1988, New quantitative stratigraphic models of rifts based on orbitally induced lake level cycles (E. Mesozoic, Eastern North America): AAPG Bull., v. 72, p. 231-232.

Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1988, Quantitative rift basin evolution: application of extensional basin filling model to early Mesozoic rifts, E. North America: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 20, 59.

Olsen, P. E., and Schlische, R. W., 1988, Unraveling the rules of rift basins: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 20, A123.

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1988, A model for the structural evolution of the Newark Basin. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 20(1), 68.

Silvestri, S, and Olsen, P. E., 1988 Uniquely preserved trackway of the reptile ichnotaxon Rhynchosauroides hyperbates Baird from the Late Triassic of Arcola, Pa., associated forms, and significance to Carnian-Norian tetrapod extinctions. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 20(1), 70.

Olsen, P. E. and Schlische, R. W., 1987, Paired half-graben, crestal collapse graben - examples from the Early Mesozoic of Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 19 (7).

Schlische, R. W., and Olsen, P. E., 1987, Comparison of growth structures in dip-slip vs. strike-slip dominated rifts: Eastern North America. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs., 15 (7).

Olsen, P. E., 1986, How did the small ornithischian trackmaker of Anomoepus walk? First International Symposium Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.

Olsen, P. E. and Baird, D., 1986, Milford revisited: with notes on a new ichnofaunule from the Norian of New Jersey. First International Symposium Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, New Mexico Museum of Natural History.

Olsen, P. E., Shubin, N. H., and Anders, M. H., 1986, New vertebrate data from eastern North America (Newark Supergroup) suggest a catastrophic end to the Triassic. S.E.P.M. Abstracts, 1986.

Pratt, L. M., Burruss, R. C., and Olsen, P. E., 1986, Petroleum generation and migration in Lower Jurassic sequences, Hartford Basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts: Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Bull., v. 70m 5, 635.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Biological constraints on the formation of lacustrine microlaminated sediments: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 14(1), 56.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Van Houten cycles: the modal cycle type for the Lacustrine portions of the Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup, eastern North America: In M. Arthur and others (eds.) Cycles and Periodicity in Geologic Events, Evolution and Stratigraphy, Dept. Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton. 26.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Significance of the great lateral extent of thin units in the Newark Supergroup (Early Mesozoic, Eastern North America) (Abst.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Olsen, P. E., 1985, Control of organic-rich lacustrine strata by Milankovitch- type cyclic climate: a new hydrocarbon exploration strategy. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 14 (7), 681.

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