T42 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains I and II: Surface Processes, Geodynamics, and the Roles of Neotectonics and Climate in Development of Modern Topography

Sunday, 7 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  EARTHSCOPE UNDERWAY: PROGRESS, GOALS, AND EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Gregory E. van der Vink, EarthScope, Washington, DC and Robert B. Smith, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  79584 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  4-D IMAGES OF THE LITHOSPHERE BENEATH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND CHALLENGES FOR UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE
  Karl E. Karlstrom, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Steven J. Whitmeyer, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  80434 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON PROTEROZOIC LITHOSPHERIC EVOLUTION, SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
  Samuel Bowring, EARTHTIME, Cambridge, MA and Rebecca Flowers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Jim Crowley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Blair Schoene, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Karl Karlstrom, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and M.L. Williams, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  78923 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  CURRENT PROBLEMS IN BASEMENT-INVOLVED LARAMIDE FORELAND DEFORMATION, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, USA: 3D STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND CONNECTIONS TO PLATE PROCESSES
  Eric A. Erslev, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO
  75479 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  COUPLING BETWEEN CRUSTAL FLOW AND DETACHMENT TECTONICS DURING EXHUMATION OF THE NORTHERN CORDILLERAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  Christian Teyssier, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Donna L. Whitney, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Seth Kruckenberg, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Eric Ferré, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale, IL and Olivier Vanderhaeghe, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, N/A
  79501 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  PALEO-SUBDUCTION AND MODERN BASALT EXTRACTION STRUCTURES IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS: MULTI-BAND IMAGES FROM THE CD-ROM EXPERIMENT
  Alan Levander, Rice Univ - MS126, Houston, TX and Maria Beatrice Magnani, Rice Univ - MS126, Houston, TX and Ken Dueker, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Kate Miller, University of Wyoming Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY
  80655 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  SURFACE WAVE TOMOGRAPHY OF THE YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT AND WYOMING CRATON
  Derek L. Schutt, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, N/A and Ken G. Dueker, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, N/A
  74488 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  NEOGENE FAULTING IN COLORADO’S HIGH PLAINS
  Vincent Matthews, Colorado Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Matthew L. Morgan, Colorado Geol Survey, Denver, CO
  75837 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  DETERMINING PALEOELEVATION OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND COLORADO PLATEAU: A CHALLENGE FOR PALEOGEOGRAPHY
  Dork Sahagian, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
  78913 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  HOW HIGH WAS THE CORDILLERA? EOCENE ELEVATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA RECORDED IN STABLE ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF DETACHMENT MYLONITES
  Andreas Mulch, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Christian Teyssier, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Page Chamberlain, Stanford Univ, Stanford, N/A and Torsten Vennemann, Univ of Lausanne, Lausanne, N/A and Mike Cosca, Univ of Lausanne, Lausanne, N/A and Michael Wells, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
  80496 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  LARAMIDE UPLIFT, OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION, AND BASIN-MARGIN RAINFORESTS: AN EARLY PALEOCENE TEST CASE FROM THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE
  Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Richard S. Barclay, Denver Mus. of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Michele L. Reynolds, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO
  75785 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  TESTING THE IMPACT OF LATE CENOZOIC ROCK UPLIFT ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Catherine Riihimaki, Princeton University Council on Science & Technology, Princeton, NJ and Robert S. Anderson, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO and Elizabeth B. Safran, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
  76317 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  DRAINAGE INTEGRATION AS A FIRST-ORDER CONTROL ON THE EROSIONAL EXHUMATION OF THE INTERIOR WEST—THE EXAMPLE OF THE GREEN RIVER AND THE UINTA MOUNTAINS
  Joel Pederson, utah state univeristy, logan, UT
  75514 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  GRAVITY MODELS OF THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN AND TULAROSA BASIN IN THE RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  Chloe L. Peterson, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Mousumi Roy, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  77664 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  MIDDLE TERTIARY BUOYANCY MODIFICATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ROCK EXHUMATION, COOLING, AND SUBSEQUENT EXTENSION AT THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU
  Mousumi Roy, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Shari Kelley, Los Alamos, NM and Frank Pazzaglia, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA and Steve Cather, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Martha House, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
  77460 (Technical Sessions)