What Every Adventist Scientist Should Know: The Coconino Sandstone 5-31-2014 by Leonard Brand
Channel: ItIsAboutGod
Date: 2014-06-01

We continue a series on What Every Adventist Scientist Should Know.  This twelfth week we discuss "Fossil animal tracks in the dunes: a case study in the scientific process." Study of the fossil vertebrate trackways in the Coconino sandstone provides a comparison between research designed to support a prior theory (and its assumptions) and research seeking to understand what explanation best fits the evidence.

1. Brand, L. R. 1979. Field and laboratory studies on the Coconino sandstone (permian) fossil vertebrate footprints and their paleoecological implications.  Palaeogeography,  Palaeoclimatology,  Palaeoecology, 28: 25-38. http://resweb.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/field_and_laboratory_studies_on_the_coconino_sandstone_%28permian%29_vertebrate_footprints_and_their_paleoecological_implications.pdf - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031018279901111
2. Brand, L. R. 1983. Field and laboratory studies on the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) fossil vertebrate footprints and their paleoecological implications. Reprint in: Terrestrial Trace Fossils. W. A. S. Sarjeant, ed.,  Benchmark Papers in Geology, 76: 126-139.
3. Brand, L. R. and T. Tang. 1991. Fossil vertebrate footprints in the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) of northern Arizona: evidence for underwater origin. Geology, 19: 1201-1204.  http://resweb.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/fossil_vertebrate_footprints_in_the_coconino_sandstone_%28permian%29_of_northern_arizona-evidence_for_underwater_origin.pdf - http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/19/12/1201.abstract
CoMmentaries on this paper were published in: Science News, 141(4): 5, 1992; Geology Today, 8(3): 78-79, 1992 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2451.1992.tb00366.x/abstract ; and Nature, 355: 110, January 9, 1992.
4. Brand, L. R. 1992. Reply to comments on "Fossil vertebrate footprints in the Coconino Sandstone (Permian) of northern Arizona: evidence for underwater origin." Geology, 20: 668-670. http://resweb.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/comment_and_reply_on_fossil_vertebrate_footprints_in_the_coconino_sandstone_%28permian%29_of_northern_arizona_evidence_for_underwater_origin.pdf - http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/20/7/666.abstract
5. Brand, L. R. and J. Kramer. 1996. Underprints of vertebrate and invertebrate trackways in the Permian Coconino sandstone in Arizona. Ichnos, 4: 225-230. http://resweb.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/underprints_of_vertebrate_and_invertebrate_trackways_in_the_permian_coconino_sandstone_in_arizona.pdf - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10420949609380129#.U4pdc0vijU0
6. Brand, L. R. 1996. Variations in salamander trackways resulting from substrate differences. Journal of Paleontology, 70: 1004-1010. http://resweb.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/variations_in_salamander_trackways_resulting_from_substrate_differences.pdf
7. McKee, E. D. 1934. The Coconino Sandstone - its history and origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 440, p. 77-115. http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-concerning-the-palaeontology-of-california-arizona-and-idaho/oclc/1196627
8. Whitmore, J. H. and R. Strom. 2010. Sand injectites at the base of the Coconino Sandstone, Grand Canyon, Arizona (USA). Sedimentary Geology, 230: 46-59. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003707381000165X

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