36 Terrane Accretion, Flat Slab Subduction, and Convergence Rate Variations: What Caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Shortening across the Mexican Cordillera?

Saturday, 31 March 2012
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Siglo XVIII

Presentations

• 8:40 AM
  KEYNOTE: NUMERICAL MODELING OF THE MEXICAN FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT
  Leonardo Cruz, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Elisa Fitz-Díaz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and Peter Hudleston, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  200984 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  KEY ISSUES OF THE MEXICAN FOLD AND THRUST BELT WHICH MUST BE ADDRESSED BY PROPOSED MECHANISMS OF CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE SHORTENING
  Gustavo Tolson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México and Elisa Fitz-Díaz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and Peter Hudleston, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Linares
  201671 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  SYNCHRONOUS WANING OF LARAMIDE SHORTENING AND INITIATION OF CENOZOIC EXTENSION IN NORTHWESTERN MEXICO: A STILL UNSOLVED ISSUE
  Martín Valencia-Moreno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hermosillo, N/A and Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de Los Garza and Mariano Cerca-Martínez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, N/A and Luca Ferrari, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro, N/A
  201728 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:50 AM
  MECHANISMS OF THE FAULTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LARAMIDE FOLDS IN THE MESA CENTRAL, MEXICO
  Shunshan Xu, UNAM, Queretaro, Qro, N/A and A.F. Nieto-Samaniego, UNAM, Queretaro, Qro and I. Loza-Aguirre, UNAM, Queretaro, Qro, N/A
  201656 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  DATING OF FOLDS IN THE MEXICAN FOLD-THRUST BELT, CENTRAL MEXICO
  Elisa Fitz-Diaz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Peter Hudleston, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Jesús Solé-Viñas, UNAM, Mexico, DF, N/A and Teresa Pi-Puig, Institute of Geology, UNAM, Mexico City, N/A and Ben A. van der Pluijm, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  201854 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  AGE OF THE CARACOL FORMATION, SIERRA DE PARRAS, COAHUILA, MEXICO
  Timothy F. Lawton, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
  201207 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  CRETACEOUS TECTONICS IN SONORA: CONSTRAINING TIME OF THE SHORTENING EVENTS
  Carlos M. González-León, UNAM, Hermosillo, Sonora and Timothy F. Lawton, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM and Luigi Solari, Centro de Geociencias, Santiago de Querétaro
  201226 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  PROVENANCE ANALYSIS FROM DETRITAL ZIRCONS IN UPPER CRETACEOUS SANDSTONES IN THE ARIVECHI REGION, EASTERN SONORA, MEXICO
  José Luis Rodríguez-Castañeda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hermosillo, Sonora and Jaime Roldán-Quintana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Hermosillo, Sonora, N/A
  201438 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:50 AM
  THE GUERRERO TERRANE SUTURE BELT AT GUANAJUATO AND ITS RELATION WITH THE MEXICAN FOLD-THRUST BELT
  Michelangelo Martini, Instituto de Geología, Mexico City, N/A
  201391 (Theme Sessions)
• 12:10 PM
  RECONSTRUCTING REGIONAL DEFORMATIONAL EVENTS IN THE ZIHUATANEJO TERRANE FROM STRATIGRAPHY AND ZIRCON GEOCRONOLOGY
  Elena Centeno-García, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, N/A
  201840 (Theme Sessions)
• 12:30 PM
  THE PIRATE MODEL FOR DERIVATION OF THE CHORTIS AND CHIAPAS BLOCKS FROM THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO IN THE LATEST CRETACEOUS-CENOZOIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL AND ZONGOLICA FOLDBELTS
  D. Fraser Keppie, Halifax, NS
  201773 (Theme Sessions)