T181 Rocky Mountains IV: Tectonics, Climate Change, and the Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, and Western Great Plains

Tuesday, 29 October 2002
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  LATE CRETACEOUS-CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Charles E. Chapin, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
  45419 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  LARAMIDE RANGE MORPHOLOGY AND GEOMORPHIC IMPLICATIONS
  Elizabeth B. Safran, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR and Graham J. Gilbert, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR and Robert S. Anderson, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Catherine Riihimaki, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Niels A. Zellers, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
  43964 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  LATE CENOZOIC GLACIAL AND FLUVIAL INCISION OF LARAMIDE RANGES
  Robert S. Anderson, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Catherine A. Riihimaki, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Elizabeth B. Safran, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR and Greg Stock, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
  39921 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  MORPHOLOGY OF THE GRANITE MOUNTAINS, WYOMING, AS AN ANALOGUE FOR PRE-EXHUMATION LARAMIDE RANGES
  Catherine A. Riihimaki, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Robert S. Anderson, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA and Elizabeth B. Safran, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
  43481 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  THE UPPER MIOCENE MOONSTONE FORMATION OF CENTRAL WYOMING: LINKING VERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY WITH POST-LARAMIDE TECTONISM
  Jessica W. Scott, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Kevin Chamberlain, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  42019 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  LATE CENOZOIC RECORD OF CLIMATIC AND TECTONIC CHANGES AT THE JUNCTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO PLATEAU, SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT
  Sean D. Connell, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Albuquerque, NM and David W. Love, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Rscs, Socorro, NM
  43122 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  A LATE PLEISTOCENE TO RECENT GLACIAL AND PERIGLACIAL RECORD FROM THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO
  Peter J. Fawcett, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Jake Armour, Albuquerque, NM
  45278 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  POST-LARAMIDE TECTONICS OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT GREAT PLAINS AS INDICATED BY LATE EOCENE TO RECENT DRAINAGE PATTERNS IN COLORADO AND SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING
  Emmett Evanoff, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  39481 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  MIDDLE CENOZOIC QUIESCENCE AND LATE CENOZOIC EXHUMATION-HOW BASE-LEVEL CHANGE THROUGH DRAINGE DEVELOPMENT AND EPEIROGENESIS HAS SCULPTED THE WEST
  Joel L. Pederson, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT and Frank J. Pazzaglia, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA
  44884 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  LONG-TERM EROSION RATES DERIVED FROM 10BE IN SEDIMENT FROM SMALL CATCHMENTS, NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND SOUTHERN WYOMING
  David P. Dethier, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Will Ouimet, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Paul Bierman, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Robert C. Finkel, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
  42216 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  COMPARISON OF LONG-TERM RATES OF INCISION ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN OROGENIC PLATEAU
  Margaret E. McMillan, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Paul L. Heller, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  41684 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  AGE AND TECTONICS OF MIDDLE TERTIARY BASALTIC VOLCANISM AND EFFECTS ON THE LANDSCAPE OF WEST-CENTRAL MONTANA
  Mitchell W. Reynolds, Box 25046, MS 913, Denver Federal Ctr, Denver, CO and Daniel P. Miggins, USGS, Denver, CO and Lawrence W. Snee, Box 25046, MS 974, Denver, CO
  46085 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  CENOZOIC ALTITUDES AND PALEOBOTANY OF WESTERN-INTERIOR UNITED STATES
  Warren B. Hamilton, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  40417 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  PLIO-PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS INDICATE A PLEISTOCENE UPLIFT OF GRAND TETONS
  Estella B. Leopold, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA and J. David Love, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  46547 (Technical Sessions)