T401 Tectonics and Paleoenvironments of Western Pangaea—New Perspectives on the Greater Ancestral Rocky Mountains

Wednesday, 30 October 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 505

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  REVISION OF THE PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Charles F. Kluth, Colorado School of Mines, Littleton, CO
  231469 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:20 PM
  LATE PALEOZOIC FUSULINIDS OF SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIA: DEPOSITIONAL SETTINGS, BIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES, AND PALEOTECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE
  Calvin H. Stevens, San José State University, San José, CA and Forrest G. Poole, Denver, CO and Ricardo Amaya-Martínez, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, SON, N/A
  230204 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:35 PM
  STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK AND CONTROLS ON PENNSYLVANNIAN GRANITE WASH PRODUCTION, ANADARKO BASIN, TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
  Edward J. LoCricchio, N/A, Littleton, CO
  230990 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR GREATER ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN FAULT ZONES FROM THE CUERVO BASIN, EASTERN NEW MEXICO
  Katy Keller, Houston, TX and Gary Yoder, Houston, TX and Charles F. Kluth, Colorado School of Mines, Littleton, CO and Jonathan A. Woolley, BHP Billiton, Houston, TX
  233945 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE TAOS TROUGH, NEW MEXICO
  Aaron J. Watters, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and D.E. Sweet, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
  231420 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  THE MISSISSIPPIAN AND PENNSYLVANIAN ROCKS OF THE DENVER BASIN
  Steven A. Tedesco, Running Foxes Petroleum Inc, Centennial, CO
  232023 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  PATTERNS OF BASIN FILL IN THE UPPER PALEOZOIC OF THE DENVER EMBAYMENT, SOUTHEAST COLORADO, USA
  John C. Webb, Clastic and Carbonate Systems, Lafayette, CO and Elizabeth P. Rall, Polydactyl Exploration, Litttleton, CO
  234048 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  ARMO REACTIVATION OF CAMBRIAN OR OLDER STRUCTURES: DETRITAL ZIRCON EVIDENCE FROM "STRUCTURELESS" SANDSTONES OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE IN COLORADO SPRINGS
  Christine Siddoway, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Sally Shatford, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Ashley A. Contreras, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  226741 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  PROPOSING AN ENTIRELY PENNSYLVANIAN AGE FOR THE FOUNTAIN FORMATION EXPOSED ALONG THE FRONT RANGE, COLORADO
  D.E. Sweet, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Corbin T. Carsrud, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Aaron J. Watters, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
  222198 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  CORRELATION OF THE UPPER MINTURN AND LOWER MAROON FORMATIONS FROM MINTURN TO SOUTH PARK, COLORADO: IMPLICATIONS FOR PENNSYLVANIAN FAULT MOVEMENT AND EVAPORITE DEPOSITION ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ANCESTRAL FRONT RANGE
  Karen J. Houck, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Denver, CO
  231844 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  THE EAGLE BASIN: A COMPARTMENTALIZED EVAPORITE BASIN AND A HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION FRONTIER
  Connie Dodge Knight, Golden, CO and Bruce Bartleson, Western State Colorado University, Gunnison, CO
  234023 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:05 PM
  PROVENANCE OF THE CASTLE VALLEY EOLIANITE, PARADOX BASIN, UTAH: A MIX OF NEARBY AND DISTANT DETRITAL SOURCES
  Timothy F. Lawton, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro and Todd R. Parr, Midland, TX
  232326 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:20 PM
  SEQUENTIAL HISTORY OF SALT STRUCTURES AND RELATED FEATURES IN THE PARADOX BASIN, USA
  Donald L. Rasmussen, Longmont, CO
  233283 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  HOW FAR WEST DOES THE ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS OROGEN EXTEND? TECTONIC ANALYSIS OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC ELY-BIRD SPRING BASIN OF NEVADA AND UTAH
  Daniel M. Sturmer, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and James H. Trexler, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Patricia H. Cashman, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Simon R. Poulson, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
  224619 (Technical Sessions)