T75 Cryptic Uplift of the Interior of the U.S. Cordilleran Orogen

Sunday, 31 October 2010
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 405

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  UPPER MANTLE SEISMIC STRUCTURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SUPPORT OF THE WESTERN U.S. CORDILLERAN UPLIFT
  Brandon Schmandt, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR and Eugene D. Humphreys, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  178190 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  MANTLE CONVECTION AND THE LATE CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTHWESTERN US TOPOGRAPHY
  Robert Moucha, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and Alessandro M. Forte, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC and David B. Rowley, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Jerry X. Mitrovica, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Nathan A. Simmons, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA and Stephen P. Grand, University of Texas, Austin, TX
  180306 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  AN INTEGRATED MODEL FOR THE POST-LARAMIDE EVOLUTION OF THE GRAND CANYON AND THE COLORADO PLATEAU
  Xavier Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC and Robert Moucha, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and Kelin X. Whipple, Arizona State University, Tempe, CO and Alessandro Forte, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC and Peter W. Reiners, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  176940 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  POSSIBLE CLASTS OF SHINUMO QUARTZITE (EASTERN GRAND CANYON) IN LOWER MIOCENE CONGLOMERATES OF THE SESPE FORMATION (COASTAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA), AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UPLIFT AND EROSION HISTORY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN US
  Brian Wernicke, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Timothy D. Raub, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Jeffrey A. Grover, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA and E. Bruce Lander, Altadena, CA
  182442 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  SEDIMENTOLOGIC AND ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS on THE CENOZOIC TOPOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN US CORDILLERA AT ~36°N
  Alex R. Lechler, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Nathan A. Niemi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  178633 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  THE ARAPAHOE CONGLOMERATE IN THE DENVER BASIN, COLORADO
  Robert Raynolds, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO and Marieke Dechesne, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
  179299 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  THE TALES OF LATE CRETACEOUS TO TERTIARY GRAVELS IN SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO
  David Gonzales, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO and Gary Gianniny, Fort Lewis College Geosciences, Durango, CO
  176001 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  THE PALEOGENE CALIFORNIA RIVER: EVIDENCE OF MOJAVE-UINTA PALEODRAINAGE FROM U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS
  Steven J. Davis, Carnegie Institution of Science, Stanford, CA
  179717 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  THE RENOVA FORMATION: A RECORD OF PALEOLANDSCAPE, PALEODRAINAGE, AND POST-COMPRESSIONAL BASIN DEVELOPMENT ATOP THE CORDILLERAN OROGENIC WEDGE, SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA
  Theresa M. Schwartz, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Robert K. Schwartz, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
  181142 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  LATE PALEOCENE-EARLY EOCENE ACCELERATED LARAMIDE DEFORMATION, EXHUMATION, AND ELEVATION GAIN IN WYOMING
  Majie Fan, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX and Peter G. DeCelles, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  182728 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  STABLE WATER ISOTOPES AND PALEOALTIMETRY IN A WARM CLIMATE
  Christopher J. Poulsen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  177753 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  PALEOELEVATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS TO LATE EOCENE: AN INTEGRATED CLIMATE MODEL-OXYGEN ISOTOPE APPROACH
  Henry Fricke, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Jacob Sewall, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
  179784 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR MODERATE TO HIGH ELEVATION OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS ‘NEVADAPLANO' IN THE NORTHERN BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE FROM CARBONATE CLUMPED ISOTOPE (Δ47) THERMOMETRY
  Kathryn E. Snell, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Paul L. Koch, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and John M. Eiler, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  181991 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  ORGANIC MOLECULAR PROXIES FOR PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOELEVATION: APPLICATIONS, ADVANCES AND LIMITATIONS OF ORGANIC BIOMARKERS AS A RECORD OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  Michael T. Hren, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  180172 (Technical Sessions)