T144 Rocky Mountains III: Post-Laramide Uplift and Erosion of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau

Tuesday, 29 October 2002
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  TIMING AND RATES OF LATE CENOZOIC INCISION BY THE COLORADO RIVER IN GLENWOOD CANYON, COLORADO
  Bruce Bryant, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and M.J. Kunk, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and R.M. Kirkham, Colorado Geol Survey, Alamosa, CO
  40543 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  NEOGENE PROFILE OF THE COLORADO RIVER: DIFFERENT REACHES AND DIFFERENTIAL INCISION WITHIN A YOUNG RIVER SYSTEM
  Stacy S. Wagner, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  41977 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  QUANTITATIVE TOPOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EROSIONALLY EXHUMED AND TECTONICALLY ACTIVE MOUNTAIN FRONTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATE CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Kurt L. Frankel, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA and Frank J. Pazzaglia, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA
  36432 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  PLEISTOCENE EXHUMATION RATES OF WYOMING INTERMONTANE BASINS FROM (U-TH)/HE DATING OF CLINKER
  Peter W. Reiners, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Edward L. Heffern, Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, WY
  43083 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  PRELIMINARY (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON TIMING AND MAGNITUDE OF TERTIARY DENUDATION OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU, UTAH
  Daniel F. Stockli, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Alexander P. Bump, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and George Davis, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Kenneth A. Farley, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA
  42039 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  MIDDLE TO LATE TERTIARY COOLING OF THE GORE AND WESTERN FRONT RANGES, CENTRAL COLORADO, FROM APATITE FISSION-TRACK DATA
  Charles W. Naeser, N/A, Reston, VA and Bruce Bryant, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Michael J. Kunk, USGS, Denver, CO and Karl Kellogg, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Raymond A. Donelick, Donelick Analytical, Inc, Viola, ID and William J. Perry, Boulder, CO
  41311 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  AVERAGE EROSION RATE OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU ESTIMATED FROM THERMOCHRONOLOGIC DATA
  Matthias Bernet, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Peter Reiners, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Mark Brandon, Yale University, New Haven, CT and John Garver, Union College, Schenectady, NY
  39452 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  EVIDENCE FOR ELEVATED REGIONAL HEAT FLOW DURING LATE OLIGOCENE TIME ON THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS
  Shari A. Kelley, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
  40610 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  NEOGENE UPLIFT HISTORY OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU FROM VESICULAR BASALTS
  Alex Proussevitch, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH and Dork Sahagian, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
  40981 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC UPLIFT AND EROSIONAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA
  Travis D. Loseke, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ and Ronald C. Blakey, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ
  42722 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  EVIDENCE FOR LATE CENOZOIC UPLIFT ON THE UNCOMPAHGRE PLATEAU, NORTHEASTERN COLORADO PLATEAU
  Robert B. Scott, U.S. Geol. Survey, Denver, CO and Thomas A. Steven, U.S. Geol. Survey, Denver, CO and Charles W. Betton, Grand Junction, CO and Rex D. Cole, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO and Andres Aslan, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO and William C. Hood, Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO
  42812 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  NEOTECTONISM IN THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE AS SHOWN BY PATTERNS OF EROSION
  Thomas A. Steven, Denver, CO
  41059 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  USING GIS TO ESTIMATE CLIMATIC INFLUENCES ON RIVER INCISION
  Brent J. Zaprowski, Salisbury Univ, Salisbury, MD and Frank J. Pazzaglia, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA
  37122 (Technical Sessions)