Integration of Biostratigraphic, Chronostratigraphic and Geochronologic Data from Jurassic Eugeoclinal Terranes-- Towards an Improved Geologic Time Scale

Pessagno和Blome将继续努力校准北美西部的侏罗纪时间尺度。这项工作将包括收集来自美国、加拿大和墨西哥的重要微化石群。该奖项的第三年将专门用于正式描述化石，这些化石被证明对生物地层带的改进很重要。时间尺度的校准和化石的描述将为北美西部与世界其他地区的相关事件提供基础，并将提供有关北美西部大陆增生速度和时间的信息。

Pessagno and Blome will continue their efforts to calibrate the Jurassic time scale in western North America. The work will involve the collection of important groups of microfossils from the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The third year of the award will be devoted to formal descriptions of the fossils that prove important in the refinement of the biostratigraphic zonation. Calibration of the time scale and description of fossils will provide a basis for correlation events in western North America with those elsewhere in the world and will provide information on the rate and timing of continental accretion of western North America.