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Paul Myrow - Research Programs


   

Neoproterozoic to Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of Newfoundland.


 

Photo: Shoreline outcrop of the Neoproterozoic-Lower Cambrian Chapel Island Formation outside of the town of Grand Bank, Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland. The type section of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary is placed within these rocks.

Refereed Publications/Guidebooks:

  • Droser, M.L., Jensen, S., Gehling, J.G., Myrow, P.M., and Narbonne, G.M., 2002. Lowermost Cambrian ichnofabrics from the Chapel Island Formation, Newfoundland: implications for Cambrian substrates: Palaios, v. 17, p. 3-15.
  • Gehling, J.G., Jensen, S., Droser, M.L., Myrow, P.M., and Narbonne, G.M., 2001, Burrowing below the basal Cambrian GSSP, Fortune Head, Newfoundland: Geological Magazine, v. 138, p. 213-218.
  • anding, E., Myrow, P.M., Benus, A., and Narbonne, G.M., 1989, The Placentian Series: appearance of the oldest skeletalized faunas in Southeastern Newfoundland: Journal of Paleontology, v. 63, p. 739-769. [Best Paper Award].
  • Landing, E., Narbonne, G., and Myrow, P., (eds.), 1988, Trace fossils, small shelly fossils, and the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary: New York State Museum Bulletin 463, The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, Albany, N.Y., 98 p.
  • Landing, E., Narbonne, G.M., Myrow, P.M., Benus, A., and Anderson, M M., 1988, Faunas and depositional environments of the upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian, Southeastern Newfoundland: New York State Museum Bulletin 463, The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, Albany, N.Y., p. 18-52.
  • Myrow, P.M., 1995, Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone: in Knoll, A.H. and Walter, M., eds., Neoproterozoic Stratigraphy and Earth History: Special Issue of Precambrian Research, v. 73, p. 123-136.
  • Myrow, P. M., and Coniglio, M., 1991, Origin and diagenesis of cryptobiontic Frutexites in the Chapel Island Formation (Vendian to lower Cambrian) of southeastern Newfoundland: Palaios, v. 6, p. 572-585.
  • Myrow, P.M. and Hiscott, R.N., 1993, Depositional history and sequence stratigraphy of the potential boundary stratotype section for the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary, Chapel Island Formation, southeast Newfoundland, in Geldzetser, H. and Nowlan, G., eds., Event Markers in Earth History: Special Issue of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 104, p. 13-35.
  • Myrow, P.M. and Hiscott, R. N., 1991. Shallow-water gravity-flow deposits, Chapel Island Formation, southeast Newfoundland, Canada: Sedimentology, v. 38, p 932-959.
  • Myrow, P. and Kaufman, A.J., 1999, A cap carbonate above Varanger age glacials in Newfoundland: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69, p. 784-793.
  • Myrow, P. M. and Landing, E., 1992, Mixed siliciclastic–carbonate deposition in a lower Cambrian oxygen-stratified basin, Chapel Island Formation southeastern Newfoundland: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 62, p. 455-473.
  • Myrow, P.M., Narbonne, G.M., and Hiscott, R.N., 1988, Storm-shelf and tidal deposits of the Chapel Island and Random formations, Burin Peninsula: facies and trace fossils: Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Field Trip Guidebook B6, 108 p.
  • Narbonne, G.M. and Myrow, P.M., 1988, Trace fossil biostratigraphy in the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary interval, in Landing, E., Narbonne, G., and Myrow, P., eds., Trace Fossils, Small Shelly Fossils and the Precambrian–Cambrian Boundary: New York State Museum Bulletin 463, The University of the State of New York, State Education Department, Albany, N.Y., p. 72-76. 
  • Narbonne, G.N., Myrow, P.M., Landing, E. and Anderson, M.M., 1991, A chondrophorine (medusoid hydrozoan) from the basal Cambrian (Placential) of Newfoundland: Journal of Paleontology, v. 65, p. 186-191.
  • Narbonne, G., Myrow, P., Landing, E. and Anderson, M.M., 1987, A candidate stratotype for the Precambrian—Cambrian southeastern Newfoundland: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 24, p. 1277-1293.
  • Strauss, H., Bengtson, S., Myrow, P.M., Vidal, G., 1992, Stable isotope geochemistry and palynology of the late Precambrian to early Cambrian sequence in Newfoundland: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 29, p. 1662-1673.



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