Cambrian and Early Ordovician Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Basin and Range Province, Western United States: Las Vegas, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah, July 1-7, 1989

About The Product

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Field Trip Guidebooks Series.
Field Trip T125 of the 28th International Geological Congress will give participants a regional overview of the geology of the Basin and Range province and an introduction to Cambrian and Early Ordovician stratigraphy and paleontology. Emphasis will be placed on regional stratigraphy, depositional environments, biofacies and lithofacies relations, biostratigraphy, trilobite mass extinctions ("biomere boundaries"), evidence for eustatic sea-level changes, paleotectonic history, and paleogeographic reconstructions. A transect will be made across a Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician passive continental margin from deep-water-carbonate submarine-fan and slope facies in central Nevada to temporally equivalent shallow-water microbial bioherms, and carbonate sand and mud facies in eastern Nevada.

Content:
Chapter 2 Geology of the Basin and Range Province, Western United States: An Overview (pages 6–13): Harry E. Cook
Chapter 3 Day 0: Early and Middle Cambrian Stratigraphy of Frenchman Mountain, Nevada (pages 14–16): A. R. Palmer
Chapter 4 Day 1: Early Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Southern Great Basin, California?Nevada (pages 17–27): A. R. Palmer and Stephen M. Rowland
Chapter 5 Day 2: Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environments, Hot Creek Range, Nevada (pages 28–36): Harry E. Cook, Michael E. Taylor and James F. Miller
Chapter 6 Day 3: Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Whipple Cave Formation and House Limestone, Central Egan Range, Nevada (pages 37–44): Michael E. Taylor, Harry E. Cook and James F. Miller
Chapter 7 Day 4: Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy, Southern House Range (“Ibex Area”), Utah (pages 45–58): James F. Miller and Michael E. Taylor
Chapter 8 Days 5 and 6: Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Central House Range and Drum Mountains, Utah (pages 59–72): Margaret N. Rees and Richard A. Robison
Chapter 9 A Practical Field Guide for Evaluating Early Paleozoic Ichnofabric (pages 73–86): Mary L. Droser and David J. Bottjer