Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

INTRODUCTION TO "THE LITHOSPHERE OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA"

Walter D. Mooney, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Richard C. Aster, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Catherine M. Snelson, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Eugene Humphreys, University of Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, OR

132355 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

GRAVITY AND MAGNETIC FRAMEWORK OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA AT LITHOSPHERIC SCALE

Richard W. Saltus, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Richard J. Blakely, USGS, Menlo Park, CA and Mark Pilkington, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON

126216 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

GEOTHERMAL TRANSITIONS IN THE CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE ALONG SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN TRANSECTS

Marshall A. Reiter, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, N/A

122895 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

Mihai N. Ducea, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

130355 (Technical Sessions)

9:05 AM

K-FELDSPAR 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF WESTERN USA PRECAMBRIAN LITHOSPHERE: IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF SYSTEMATICS TOWARDS MORE ACCURATE GEOLOGICAL MODELS

Matthew T. Heizler, NM Tech, Socorro, NM and Ian Parsons, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, N/A and Robert E. Sanders, NM Tech, socorro, NM and Lynn L. Heizler, NM Tech, socorro, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

130621 (Technical Sessions)

9:20 AM

RECEIVER FUNCTION IMAGES OF THE LITHOSPHERE IN THE WESTERN U.S

Alan Levander, Rice University, Houston, TX and Fenglin Niu, Rice University, Houston, TX and Meghan S. Miller, Rice University, Houston, TX

130075 (Technical Sessions)

9:40 AM

EFFECTS OF DATA VARIANCE AND PARAMETERIZATION ON A NEW NORTH AMERICAN 3D UPPER-MANTLE MODEL

Heather Bedle, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

129221 (Technical Sessions)

10:10 AM

LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE MELTING AND THE ORIGIN OF THE MID-TERTIARY IGNIMBRITE FLARE-UP, SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS

G. Lang Farmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Treasure L. Bailley, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, MIT, Cambridge, MA

127254 (Technical Sessions)

10:25 AM

GEODYNAMICS OF THE WESTERN U.S. INTERIOR

C.M. Puskas, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and R.B. Smith, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and L.M. Flesch, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and K. Settles, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and F. Pollitz, USGS, Menlo Park, CA

132318 (Technical Sessions)

10:40 AM

TECTONICS, LITHOSPHERE STRENGTH AND THERMAL STRUCTURE OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

Claire A. Currie, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and Roy D. Hyndman, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC and Stephane Mazzotti, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC

131086 (Technical Sessions)

10:55 AM

THICK-SKINNED PALEOPROTEROZOIC SHEAR-FOLD COUPLED DEFORMATION ALONG THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA

Stephen Allard, Winona State University, Winona, MN and Douglas H. Portis, Winona State University, Winona, MN

126075 (Technical Sessions)

11:10 AM

TIMING AND DURATION OF HIGH-P GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHISM IN THE NORTHERN TETON RANGE, WYOMING

B. Frost, Univ Wyoming Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY and Chris McFarlane, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB and Susan M. Swapp, N/A and Carol D. Frost, N/A and Kevin R. Chamberlain, N/A and Charlotte M. Allen, N/A and Braden Fitzgerald, Laramie, N/A

126352 (Technical Sessions)

11:25 AM

IMAGE OF YELLOWSTONE MAGMATIC HISTORY AND LOWER CRUSTAL OUTFLOW

Ken Dueker, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Josh Stachnik, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA and Huaiyu Yuan, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Derek Schutt, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

131575 (Technical Sessions)

11:40 AM

CENOZOIC UPLIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ASPEN ANOMALY, CENTRAL COLORADO, AND UPDATE ON THE CREST COLORADO ROCKIES EXPERIMENT AND SEISMIC TRANSECTS

Karl E. Karlstrom, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Jonathan K. MacCarthy, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Ken Dueker, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Richard C. Aster, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Shari Kelley, Los Alamos, NM and Laura J. Crossey, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Eric Kirby, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and David R. Hilton, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA and David Coblentz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and G. Lang Farmer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

130218 (Technical Sessions)

T74 The Structure, Composition and Evolution of the Lithosphere of Western North America I

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