T54 Cenozoic Evolution of the Southern Rocky Mountains and Northern Rio Grande Rift: Exploring Linkages between Geologic History, Processes, and Landscape Change

Sunday, 25 September 2016
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Mile High Ballroom 2B

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  DEFINING THE GEOLOGIC AND TECTONIC COLORADO PLATEAU IN SPACE AND TIME BY EXTENSION
  Paul Morgan, Golden, CO
  282900 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  CORDILLERAN AND FLUID CONTROLS ON LARAMIDE BASEMENT-INVOLVED FORELAND DEFORMATION
  Eric A. Erslev, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  284556 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  THE ARKANSAS/BLUE RIVER TRANSITION ZONE OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT AND ITS POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STRUCTURE OF SOUTH PARK
  Vincent Matthews, Eleva, WI and Peter Barkmann, Golden, CO
  282303 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  LATE-MIOCENE TO PLEISTOCENE EXHUMATION ALONG THE UPPER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY SEGMENT OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT IN SOUTHERN COLORADO
  Alyssa Abbey, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA and Nathan Niemi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  281801 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  AN ENIGMATIC MOUNTAIN-BLOCK EXTENSIONAL TRANSFER ZONE WITHIN THE CENTRAL COLORADO RIO GRANDE RIFT
  Scott Minor, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Jonathan Saul Caine, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Mark Hudson, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Christopher J. Fridrich, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Chester A. Ruleman, Denver, CO
  283840 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  DECIPHERING A STRUCTURAL CHANGE AT 11 MA IN THE EVOLUTION OF A CLASSIC TRANSFER FAULT ZONE, THE SOUTHERN EMBUDO FAULT SYSTEM IN NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  Daniel J. Koning, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and W. Scott Baldridge, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and John F. Ferguson, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
  280449 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  REVISITING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN OF NEW MEXICO
  Kristine Zellman, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Kristine Zellman, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Henry Fricke, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Piret Plink-Bjorklund, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Scott L. Wing, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC and Guy Harrington, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
  287822 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS IN THE PALEOCENE SAN JUAN BASIN:  INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOLCANISM, SEDIMENTATION, AND PRESERVATION DURING THE LARAMIDE OROGENY
  Kevin M. Hobbs, University of New Mexico, Los Lunas, NM and Peter Fawcett, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  285049 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  MAGMATO-TECTONIC LINKS: IGNIMBRITE CALDERAS, REGIONAL DIKE SWARMS, AND THE TRANSITION FROM ARC TO RIFT IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Peter W. Lipman, Menlo Park, CA and Matthew J. Zimmerer, Socorro, NM
  278823 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  TIMING AND GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF SERVILLETA BASALT ALONG THE RIO GRANDE GORGE, COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
  Michael Cosca, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Ren Thompson, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Kenzie Turner, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Leah E. Morgan, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  285074 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  GEOCHEMICAL VARIATIONS OF THE MCCARTYS FLOW, WEST-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO: EVALUATING THE MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF A CONTINENTAL THOLEIITIC BASALT
  Steven Levesque, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM and Frank Ramos, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
  286635 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS OF THE TABLE MOUNTAIN LAVA FLOWS, GOLDEN, COLORADO
  Alexie Millikin, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO and Leah E. Morgan, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  285150 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF THE RIO GRANDE FLUVIAL SYSTEM IN THE LAST 8 MA: PROGRESSIVE DOWNWARD INTEGRATION AND INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECTONICS, VOLCANISM, AND RIVER EVOLUTION
  Marisa N. Repasch, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Karl E. Karlstrom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Matthew Heizler, New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM
  280983 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE INTEGRATION OF THE SAN LUIS BASIN AND FORMATION OF THE MODERN RIO GRANDE, COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO, U.S.A
  Chester A. Ruleman, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Ren Thompson, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Daniel P. Miggins, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR and Brent M. Goehring, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and James B. Paces, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  280800 (Technical Sessions)