1 T1. Plenary I: The Backbone of the Americas

Monday, 3 April 2006
8:30 AM - 7:30 PM

Presentations

• 8:45 AM
  ANATOMY AND GLOBAL SETTING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA
  William R. Dickinson, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  99798 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 9:15 AM
  TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA
  Victor A. Ramos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, N/A
  101179 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 9:45 AM
  CENOZOIC PLATE KINEMATICS IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC AND ALONG THE WESTERN RIMS OF THE AMERICAS
  Tanya M. Atwater, U.C.S.B, Santa Barbara, CA
  101567 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 10:10 AM
  UPPER MANTLE SEISMIC STRUCTURE BENEATH THE CORDILLERA
  Steve P. Grand, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  102625 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 11:00 AM
  NEOGENE ARC MAGMATISM IN A CONTINENTAL SETTING FROM PATAGONIA TO ALASKA
  Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY
  101323 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 11:25 AM
  COLLISION AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING ALONG NORTH PACIFIC MARGINS
  Roland Von Huene, Univ of California Davis, Davis, CA and Cesar R. Ranero, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, N/A
  101147 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 11:45 AM
  SOME CONSTRAINTS ON MATERIAL INPUT ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICA CONVERGENT MARGIN
  Cesar R. Ranero, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, N/A and Roland Von Huene, Univ of California Davis, Davis, CA and Wilhelm Weinrebe, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, N/A and Christian J. Reichert, BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover, N/A and Alcinoe Calahorrano, CSIC, Barcelona, N/A and Francoise Sage, P. et M. Curie University, Villefranche-sur-Mer, N/A and Jean-Yves Collot, IRD, Villefranche-sur-Mer, N/A
  101347 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 12:05 PM
  ROOT FOUNDERING IN CORDILLERAN ARCS - AN UPDATED REVIEW OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE, EXPERIMENTAL BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL MODELING
  Mihai N. Ducea, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  101205 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 2:00 PM
  FLAT SLAB SUBDUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE CONTEXT OF ONGOING SUBDUCTION OF TERTIARY OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE, SUBDUCTING SEAMOUNTS AND RIDGES, AND CONTINENTAL UPPER PLATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SLAB MORPHOLOGY, SEISMICITY STRUCTURE AND FOCAL MECHANISMS, AND SEISMIC HAZARDS
  Stephen H. Kirby, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Robert Engdahl, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Emile A. Okal, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Antonio Villaseñor, Lluís Solé i Sabarís s/n, Barcelona, N/A
  101371 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 2:25 PM
  PAMPEAN (CHILEAN) FLAT SLAB: GEOPHYSICAL VIEW
  Mario Pardo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, N/A and Tony Monfret, UMR Geosciences Azur - IRD, Valbonne, N/A
  101195 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 2:50 PM
  EVOLUTION OF THE PAMPEAN FLAT-SLAB SEGMENT OF THE SOUTHERN CENTRAL ANDES
  Victor A. Ramos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, N/A
  101183 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 3:15 PM
  HORIZONTAL AND “HORIZONTAL” SUBDUCTION ALONG THE MIDDLE SECTOR OF THE BACKBONE OF THE AMERICAS: PARTITIONED SEISMOGENIC STRESS-STRAIN AND ACTIVE DEFORMATION
  Allan López, <i>Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad</i>, San José, N/A
  102627 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 3:40 PM
  THE PERUVIAN FLATSLAB
  Antenor M. Aleman, Spring, TX
  102624 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 4:30 PM
  RELATION OF FLAT SUBDUCTION TO MAGMATISM AND DEFORMATION IN WESTERN U.S.A
  Eugene D. Humphreys, Eugene, OR
  100872 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 4:55 PM
  THRUSTING, MAGMATISM, AND COLLAPSE OF THE SEVIER OROGENIC WEDGE, WESTERN MONTANA, USA
  David R. Lageson, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  101124 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 5:15 PM
  CONTROLS ON BASEMENT-INVOLVED FORELAND DEFORMATION: A VIEW FROM THE LARAMIDE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, USA
  Eric A. Erslev, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO
  101467 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)
• 5:35 PM
  LARAMIDE AND NEOGENE SHALLOW SUBDUCTION IN MEXICO: CONSTRAINTS AND CONTRASTS
  Luca Ferrari, UNAM, Queretaro, N/A
  101362 (SUBMIT ABSTRACT)