scholarly journals Alpine lichen diversity in an isolated sky island in the Colorado Plateau, USA—Insight from an integrative biodiversity inventory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven D. Leavitt ◽  
Jason Hollinger ◽  
Sara Summerhays ◽  
Isaac Munger ◽  
Jonah Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Lichen Diversity ◽  
Biodiversity Inventory ◽  
Sky Island

The first lichenological survey in Koryakia (Northern Kamchatka, Russia) — the last unexplored part of Beringia

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Himelbrant ◽  
I. S. Stepanchikova ◽  
T. Ahti ◽  
V. Yu. Neshataeva
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Kamchatka Peninsula ◽  
Lichen Diversity ◽  
Magadan Region ◽  
Specific Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lichen Flora

The first lichenological inventory in Koryakia has resulted in the list of 315 species reported from Parapolsky Dale, within and in vicinities of the Koryak State Reserve. Altogether 46 species are published from the Kamchatka Territory for the first time, including Lecanographa grumulosa new to Russia, East Asia and Beringia; Cercidospora trypetheliza, Lecania dubitans, Pertusaria borealis, Piccolia ochrophora, Protoparmelia cupreobadia, Rimularia badioatra and Strangospora moriformis new to Russian Far East; Abrothallus bertianus, Cladonia strepsilis, Physciella melanchra, Rimularia badioatra, Sclerococcum parasiticum, Sphinctrina leucopoda and Strangospora moriformis new to Beringia. The lichen diversity of the study area is relatively poor due to natural reasons. Comparison with neighboring regions (Kamchatka Peninsula, Chukotka, Magadan Region, Yakutia and Alaska) shows that the lichen flora of Parapolsky Dale contains almost no specific species. The majority of the species recorded here are also known from neighboring regions, especially Alaska and Kamchatka Peninsula.

Inventory of Amphibians and Reptiles in Southern Colorado Plateau National Parks

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor B. Persons ◽  
Erika M. Nowak
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Colorado Plateau

Cenozoic geology of the Colorado Plateau

10.3133/pp279 ◽  
1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.B. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau

Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau uranium ores

10.3133/pp320 ◽  
1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Garrels ◽  
E.S. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau

Tracking dinosaurs in BLM canyon country, Utah

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 67-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster ◽  
Martin G. Lockley ◽  
Andrew R.C. Milner ◽  
John R. Foster ◽  
Neffra A. Matthews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Salt Tectonics ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Cedar Mountain Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Rafael ◽  
San Rafael Swell ◽  
Biological History

Although only recognized as a discrete stratigraphic unit since 1944, the Cedar Mountain Formation represents tens of millions of years of geological and biological history on the central Colorado Plateau. This field guide represents an attempt to pull together the results of recent research on the lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of these medial Mesozoic strata that document the dynamic and complex geological history of this region. Additionally, these data provide a framework by which to examine the history of terrestrial faunas during the final breakup of Pangaea. In fact, the medial Mesozoic faunal record of eastern Utah should be considered a keystone in understanding the history of life across the northern hemisphere. Following a period of erosion and sediment bypass spanning the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, sedimentation across the quiescent Colorado Plateau began during the Early Cretaceous. Thickening of these basal Cretaceous strata across the northern Paradox Basin indicate that salt tectonics may have been the predominant control on deposition in this region leading to the local preservation of fossiliferous strata, while sediment bypass continued elsewhere. Thickening of overlying Aptian strata west across the San Rafael Swell provides direct evidence of the earliest development of a foreland basin with Sevier thrusting that postdates geochemical evidence for the initial development of a rain shadow.

Tracking dinosaurs in BLM canyon country, Utah

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 67-100
Author(s):  
ReBecca Hunt-Foster ◽  
Martin Lockley ◽  
Andrew Milner ◽  
John Foster ◽  
Neffra Matthews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Salt Tectonics ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Cedar Mountain Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Rafael ◽  
San Rafael Swell ◽  
Biological History

Although only recognized as a discrete stratigraphic unit since 1944, the Cedar Mountain Formation represents tens of millions of years of geological and biological history on the central Colorado Plateau. This field guide represents an attempt to pull together the results of recent research on the lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of these medial Mesozoic strata that document the dynamic and complex geological history of this region. Additionally, these data provide a framework by which to examine the history of terrestrial faunas during the final breakup of Pangaea. In fact, the medial Mesozoic faunal record of eastern Utah should be considered a keystone in understanding the history of life across the northern hemisphere. Following a period of erosion and sediment bypass spanning the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, sedimentation across the quiescent Colorado Plateau began during the Early Cretaceous. Thickening of these basal Cretaceous strata across the northern Paradox Basin indicate that salt tectonics may have been the predominant control on deposition in this region leading to the local preservation of fossiliferous strata, while sediment bypass continued elsewhere. Thickening of overlying Aptian strata west across the San Rafael Swell provides direct evidence of the earliest development of a foreland basin with Sevier thrusting that postdates geochemical evidence for the initial development of a rain shadow.

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