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Paleontologists, both staff and student, from the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of... more Paleontologists, both staff and student, from the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology have been actively prospecting for fossils in the Campanian-age exposures of the Lower Pierre Shale on the Kenneth Brown Ranch since 1994. A measured section of the Pierre Shale at Brown Ranch is presented, and consists of 27.36 m of strata, including outcrops of the Gammon Ferruginous, Sharon Springs, and Mitten Black Shale Members. Field prospecting was combined with an assessment of the Museum of Geology collections at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to produce a database of 53 vertebrate located within an interval of 0 to 18 m above the base of the section. Fossil distributions within this interval were grouped and tested in 0.5- and 1 m thick stratigraphic intervals and compared against random (Poisson) distributions. At a resolution of 1 m, fossils display random distribution, whereas at a resolution of 0.5 m fossils display an aggregated distr...
Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Marylan... more Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey) and the Maastricht area (southern Netherlands, and nearby Belgium and Gennany) are correlated across the Atlantic using a variety of macro invertebrates, nannofossils, and sequence stratigraphy. Four late Cretaceous Mid-Atlantic sequences, the Marshalltown, Englishtown, Merchantville, and Navesink, span the upper Santonian to lowennost Danian, and have direct correlatives in the Maastricht area. Correlations between the Mid-Atlantic and the Maastricht regions (respectively) are as follows: the upper Santonian to lower Campanian Merchantville and Matawan formations with the Achen and lower Vaals fonnations; the middle Campanian upper Englishtown F onnation with the upper Vaals F onnation; the uppermost middle Campanian to upper Campanian Marshalltown, Wenonah, and Mount Laurel fomlations with the lower Gulpen Fonnation; the Navesink and lower Severn fonnations with the ...
Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Marylan... more Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey) and the Maastricht area (southern Netherlands, and nearby Belgium and Gennany) are correlated across the Atlantic using a variety of macro invertebrates, nannofossils, and sequence stratigraphy. Four late Cretaceous Mid-Atlantic sequences, the Marshalltown, Englishtown, Merchantville, and Navesink, span the upper Santonian to lowennost Danian, and have direct correlatives in the Maastricht area. Correlations between the Mid-Atlantic and the Maastricht regions (respectively) are as follows: the upper Santonian to lower Campanian Merchantville and Matawan formations with the Achen and lower Vaals fonnations; the middle Campanian upper Englishtown F onnation with the upper Vaals F onnation; the uppermost middle Campanian to upper Campanian Marshalltown, Wenonah, and Mount Laurel fomlations with the lower Gulpen Fonnation; the Navesink and lower Severn fonnations with the ...
The question of what differentiates young-Earth creationism (YEC) from Intelligent Design (ID) ha... more The question of what differentiates young-Earth creationism (YEC) from Intelligent Design (ID) has resulted in inaccurate and confusing terminology, and hinders both understanding and dialogue. Though both YEC and ID groups have drawn distinctions between themselves, previous attempts to classify design-based positions on origins have been unable to adequately resolve their relationships. The Nested Hierarchy of Design, a multiple-character classification system, categorizes teleological positions according to the strength of claims regarding the reality, detectability, source, method, and timing of design, and results in an accurate and robust classification of numerous positions. This method avoids the philosophical and theological pitfalls of previous methods and enables construction of accurate definitions for a suite of teleological positions. The incorporation of the Nested Hierarchy of Design in classroom discussion could 1) better represent the suite of opinions among studen...
Journal of Geoscience Education
Journal of Geoscience Education, 2005
Late Cretaceous marine sedimentary deposits from North America, The Netherlands, and Belgium are ... more Late Cretaceous marine sedimentary deposits from North America, The Netherlands, and Belgium are correlated on the basis of ammonites, calcareous nannofossils, sequence stratigraphy, and absolute age methods. These correlations provide the rationale for the construction ...
Answers Research Journal, 2014
Journal of Creation, 2012
Through the Generations: Geologic and Anthropogenic Field Excursions in the Rocky Mountains from Modern to Ancient, 2010
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009
… field excursions in …, 2010
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009
Abundant, readily identifiable, and biostratigraphically resolved specimens make mosasaurs ideal ... more Abundant, readily identifiable, and biostratigraphically resolved specimens make mosasaurs ideal candidates to test fluxes in generic richness and morphological trends among marine vertebrates during the late Cretaceous. More than 1800 globally ...
Northeastern Geology and …, 2006
Paleontologists, both staff and student, from the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of... more Paleontologists, both staff and student, from the Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology have been actively prospecting for fossils in the Campanian-age exposures of the Lower Pierre Shale on the Kenneth Brown Ranch since 1994. A measured section of the Pierre Shale at Brown Ranch is presented, and consists of 27.36 m of strata, including outcrops of the Gammon Ferruginous, Sharon Springs, and Mitten Black Shale Members. Field prospecting was combined with an assessment of the Museum of Geology collections at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to produce a database of 53 vertebrate located within an interval of 0 to 18 m above the base of the section. Fossil distributions within this interval were grouped and tested in 0.5- and 1 m thick stratigraphic intervals and compared against random (Poisson) distributions. At a resolution of 1 m, fossils display random distribution, whereas at a resolution of 0.5 m fossils display an aggregated distr...
Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Marylan... more Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey) and the Maastricht area (southern Netherlands, and nearby Belgium and Gennany) are correlated across the Atlantic using a variety of macro invertebrates, nannofossils, and sequence stratigraphy. Four late Cretaceous Mid-Atlantic sequences, the Marshalltown, Englishtown, Merchantville, and Navesink, span the upper Santonian to lowennost Danian, and have direct correlatives in the Maastricht area. Correlations between the Mid-Atlantic and the Maastricht regions (respectively) are as follows: the upper Santonian to lower Campanian Merchantville and Matawan formations with the Achen and lower Vaals fonnations; the middle Campanian upper Englishtown F onnation with the upper Vaals F onnation; the uppermost middle Campanian to upper Campanian Marshalltown, Wenonah, and Mount Laurel fomlations with the lower Gulpen Fonnation; the Navesink and lower Severn fonnations with the ...
Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Marylan... more Upper Cretaceous marine deposits from the Mid-Atlantic region of North America (Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey) and the Maastricht area (southern Netherlands, and nearby Belgium and Gennany) are correlated across the Atlantic using a variety of macro invertebrates, nannofossils, and sequence stratigraphy. Four late Cretaceous Mid-Atlantic sequences, the Marshalltown, Englishtown, Merchantville, and Navesink, span the upper Santonian to lowennost Danian, and have direct correlatives in the Maastricht area. Correlations between the Mid-Atlantic and the Maastricht regions (respectively) are as follows: the upper Santonian to lower Campanian Merchantville and Matawan formations with the Achen and lower Vaals fonnations; the middle Campanian upper Englishtown F onnation with the upper Vaals F onnation; the uppermost middle Campanian to upper Campanian Marshalltown, Wenonah, and Mount Laurel fomlations with the lower Gulpen Fonnation; the Navesink and lower Severn fonnations with the ...
The question of what differentiates young-Earth creationism (YEC) from Intelligent Design (ID) ha... more The question of what differentiates young-Earth creationism (YEC) from Intelligent Design (ID) has resulted in inaccurate and confusing terminology, and hinders both understanding and dialogue. Though both YEC and ID groups have drawn distinctions between themselves, previous attempts to classify design-based positions on origins have been unable to adequately resolve their relationships. The Nested Hierarchy of Design, a multiple-character classification system, categorizes teleological positions according to the strength of claims regarding the reality, detectability, source, method, and timing of design, and results in an accurate and robust classification of numerous positions. This method avoids the philosophical and theological pitfalls of previous methods and enables construction of accurate definitions for a suite of teleological positions. The incorporation of the Nested Hierarchy of Design in classroom discussion could 1) better represent the suite of opinions among studen...
Journal of Geoscience Education
Journal of Geoscience Education, 2005
Late Cretaceous marine sedimentary deposits from North America, The Netherlands, and Belgium are ... more Late Cretaceous marine sedimentary deposits from North America, The Netherlands, and Belgium are correlated on the basis of ammonites, calcareous nannofossils, sequence stratigraphy, and absolute age methods. These correlations provide the rationale for the construction ...
Answers Research Journal, 2014
Journal of Creation, 2012
Through the Generations: Geologic and Anthropogenic Field Excursions in the Rocky Mountains from Modern to Ancient, 2010
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009
… field excursions in …, 2010
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009
Abundant, readily identifiable, and biostratigraphically resolved specimens make mosasaurs ideal ... more Abundant, readily identifiable, and biostratigraphically resolved specimens make mosasaurs ideal candidates to test fluxes in generic richness and morphological trends among marine vertebrates during the late Cretaceous. More than 1800 globally ...
Northeastern Geology and …, 2006