Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

THE SEISMIC STRUCTURE OF THE EURASIAN-ARABIAN COLLISIONAL BELT

Eric Sandvol, Univ of Missouri, Columbia, MO

73947 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

OXYGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR RAPID LATE MIOCENE UPLIFT OF THE ALTIPLANO, BOLIVIA

Carmala N. Garzione, Univ of Rochester, Rochester, NY and Julie C. Libarkin, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH

75801 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

EROSIONAL CONTROL OF PLATEAU EVOLUTION IN THE CENTRAL ANDES

Manfred R. Strecker, Universitaet Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A and Barbara Carrapa, Universitaet Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A and George E. Hilley, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA and Lindsay M. Schoenbohm, Universitaet Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A and Edward R. Sobel, Universitaet Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A

80270 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

EOCENE-MIOCENE PALEOALTIMETRY OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU

Brian S. Currie, Miami Univ, Oxford, OH and David B. Rowley, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL

80591 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

FIRST-CLASS AND SECOND-CLASS OROGENIC PLATEAUS

Marin K. Clark, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

76744 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

THE GANGDESE RETROARC FOLD-THRUST BELT REVEALED

P. Kapp, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and P.G. DeCelles, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Andrew Leier, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Shundong He, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Lin Ding, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A

79257 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

EVALUATING UNCERTAINTY IN BALANCED CROSS-SECTIONS: A CRITICAL STEP FOR RELATING THRUST-BELTS TO PLATEAU UPLIFT

Richard W. Allmendinger, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY

75173 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

TRANSITIONS BETWEEN FLEXURAL AND AIRY ISOSTASY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN CONTINENTAL PLATEAUS

Brian K. Horton, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

74096 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

THE ROLE OF THE MANTLE LITHOSPHERE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVERGENT SYSTEMS: COMPARISON OF THE ANDEAN AND HIMALAYAN-TIBETAN OROGENS

George Zandt, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Peter G. DeCelles, The Unversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

79209 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BASIN EVOLUTION IN THE LHASA TERRANE OF SOUTHERN TIBET: RESPONSES TO TERRANE COLLISION, ARC-TRENCH TECTONICS, AND PROGRESSIVE UNDERTHRUSTING OF GREATER INDIA

P.G. DeCelles, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and P. Kapp, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Andrew Leier, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Jay Quade, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Majie Fan, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

77013 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

SOUTH-DIRECTED BACKTHRUSTING BENEATH THE EASTERN KUNLUN SHAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR MECHANISMS OF PLATEAU GROWTH

Michael W. McRivette, Univ of California, Los Angeles, CA and An Yin, Univ of California, Los Angeles, CA and Xuan-Hua Chen, Institute of Geomechanics, Beijing, N/A

75458 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

NEOGENE MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE GUIDE BASIN: MID-MIOCENE CLOCKWISE ROTATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR UPLIFT OF THE NE TIBETAN PLATEAU

Maodu Yan, Univ of michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Rob Van der Voo, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Xiao-min Fang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Rsch, Beijing, N/A and Josep M. Pares, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and David K. Rea, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Chunhui Song, Institute of Earth Environ, Xi’an, N/A

78842 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

CRUSTAL BALANCE AND CRUSTAL FLUX FROM SHORTENING ESTIMATES IN THE CENTRAL ANDES

David Hindle, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI and Jonas Kley, Universitat Jena, Jena, N/A and Onno Oncken, GFZ Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A and Stephan Sobolev, GFZ Potsdam, Potsdam, N/A

75210 (Technical Sessions)

11:45 AM

EVIDENCE FOR A RELEASING BEND AT THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE PUNA PLATEAU, ARGENTINE ANDES

Austin K. Baldwin, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Randall A. Marrett, Univ Texas - Austin, Austin, TX

74445 (Technical Sessions)

T18 Thrust Belts and Plateaus: The Anatomy of Convergent Systems

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