12 Pulling Apart the Cordilleran Orogen: Tectonic and Magmatic Processes Revealed within Extensional Terranes

Friday, 8 May 2009
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  PALEOGENE DEXTRAL TRANSTENSION AND DUCTILE CRUSTAL BOUDINAGE: LINKING LISTRIC NORMAL FAULTING IN THE CORDILLERAN FORELAND THRUST-AND-FOLD BELT TO TECTONIC EXHUMATION OF MID-CRUSTAL METAMORPHIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE HINTERLAND
  Raymond A. Price, Queen's Univ, Kingston, ON
  157318 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  OKANAGAN GNEISSES: INSIGHTS INTO PROTOLITH, GNEISS FORMATION, AND EOCENE EXTENSION
  Sarah R. Brown, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC and H. Daniel Gibson, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
  157556 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  INSIGHT INTO THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF A MAJOR OROGENIC STRUCTURE AND EVIDENCE FOR A LONG, HOT OROGEN WITHIN THE SOUTHERN CANADIAN CORDILLERA
  H. Daniel Gibson, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
  157438 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  STRATIGRAPHY, STRUCTURE AND METAMORPHISM OF THE ESPLANADE RANGE, SOUTHEASTERN CANADIAN CORDILLERA
  Erik N. Parker, Univ Calgary, Calgary, AB and Philip S. Simony, N/A and Edward D. Ghent, Univ Calgary, Calgary, AB
  157316 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  GEOLOGIC AND THERMOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE SHAWAVE-NIGHTINGALE HORST BLOCK, NORTHWESTERN NEVADA
  Caroline S. Whitehill, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and James Faulds, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV and George Thompson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  157457 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  TECTONIC SETTING OF THE IGNIMBRITE FLARE-UP AND EPITHERMAL MINERALIZATION IN THE NORTHERN SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL (MEXICO): PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FROM THE GUAZAPARES MINING DISTRICT, WESTERN CHIHUAHUA
  Bryan P. Murray, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Cathy J. Busby, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Danny B. Sims, Paramount Gold and Silver Corporation, Phoenix, AZ
  157446 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  CRETACEOUS-CENOZOIC LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE SW U.S.A.: UPLIFT AND EROSION OF THE SIERRA NEVADA
  Cathy J. Busby, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Keith Putirka, California State University - Fresno, Fresno, CA
  157456 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  CENOZOIC PALEOCANYON EVOLUTION, ANCESTRAL CASCADES ARC VOLCANISM, AND STRUCTURE OF THE CARSON PASS REGION, SIERRA NEVADA CALIFORNIA
  Jeanette C. Hagan, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Cathy J. Busby, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Keith Putirka, California State University - Fresno, Fresno, CA and Paul Renne, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, Berkeley, CA
  157565 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  THE SIERRA NEVADA FRONTAL FAULT SYSTEM: KINEMATICS AND ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
  Christopher Kemp, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA and John Wakabayashi, Fresno, CA
  157604 (Theme Sessions)