24 Cenozoic Landscape Evolution of the Colorado Plateau and the Basin-and-Range Transition Zone

Thursday, 9 May 2002
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:05 PM
  COLORADO PLATEAU AND GRAND CANYON: CRETACEOUS AND OLIGOCENE LANDSCAPE EROSION IN A HIGH RAINFALL ENVIRONMENT DURING SEVIER, LARAMIDE, AND CORDILLERAN OROGENIES
  Donald P. Elston, Flagstaff, AZ
  33657 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:25 PM
  LARAMIDE-PALEOGENE GRAND CANYONE ORIGIN
  Robert B. Scarborough, Tucson, AZ
  33872 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  EXHUMED AND MODERN GRAND CANYON LANDSCAPES: CONTRASTS IN FORM AND PROCESS
  Richard A. Young, SUNY, Geneseo, NY
  33775 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  UPLIFT AND EROSION OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU AND GRAND CANYON—IMPLICATIONS OF NEW CALCULATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE ROCK UPLIFT, EXHUMATION, AND RIVER INCISION
  Joel L. Pederson, Logan, UT and Rob D. Mackley, Logan, UT and James L. Eddleman, Logan, UT and Brad Lindsay, Logan, UT
  34342 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  CRETACEOUS SHALES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON DENUDATION ESTIMATES FOR THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES
  Shari A. Kelley, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
  33961 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:35 PM
  LATE MIOCENE-EARLY PLIOCENE TRANSITION FROM LACUSTRINE TO FLUVIAL DEPOSITION: INCEPTION OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER IN SOUTHERN NEVADA AND NORTHWEST ARIZONA
  James E. Faulds, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and Luis A. Gonzalez, Univ of Iowa, N/A and Michael E. Perkins, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and P. Kyle House, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and Philip A. Pearthree, Tucson, AZ and Stephen B. Castor, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and P. Jonathan Patchett, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  34265 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  NEW STRATIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR THE LATE CENOZOIC INCEPTION AND SUBSEQUENT ALLUVIAL HISTORY OF THE COLORADO RIVER FROM NEAR LAUGHLIN, NEVADA
  P. Kyle House, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and Philip A. Pearthree, Tucson, AZ and John W. Bell, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and Alan R. Ramelli, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and James E. Faulds, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV
  34155 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE LANDSLIDING IN CENTRAL GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA
  Jill E. Savage, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Peter W. Huntoon, Boulder City, NV and John E. Warme, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  33869 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:55 PM
  IMPLICATIONS OF NEW QUATERNARY STRATIGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND AGE CONTROL IN EASTERN GRAND CANYON FOR LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION AND LAVA-DAM LAKES
  Matt D. Anders, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT and Joel L. Pederson, Logan, UT
  34277 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:10 PM
  NEW 40AR-39AR DATES ON BASALTS IN GRAND CANYON: CONSTRAINTS ON RATES OF QUATERNARY RIVER INCISION AND SLIP ON THE TOROWEAP FAULT, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LAVA DAMS
  William C. McIntosh, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Lisa Peters, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Joel L. Pederson, Logan, UT
  34344 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:30 PM
  STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND LATE CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE HURRICANE FAULT, LOWER WHITMORE WASH, WESTERN GRAND CANYON
  Jason J. Raucci, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ and Paul J. Umhoefer, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ
  34212 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:45 PM
  AN UPTHROWN VALLEY? UNCONVENTIONAL FAULTING IN SEVIER VALLEY, UT
  Eric J. Cline, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and John Bartley, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  34232 (THEME SESSIONS)