Geological Society of America

274 Tectonics of Western North America: Late Paleozoic and through Time

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mile High Ballroom 2C

Presentations

8:15 AM

THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY – EARLY TO MID-PALEOZOIC TRANSLATION OF TERRANES FROM THE ARCTIC REALM INTO EASTERN PANTHALASSA

Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT and Justin Strauss, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Bill McClelland, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and JoAnne L. Nelson, British Columbia Geological Survey, Victoria, BC

279440 (Technical Sessions)
8:30 AM

TIMING AND TECTONIC SETTING OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIAN BORDERLAND: DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM THE ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN OROGEN

Timothy F. Lawton, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro and Patricia H. Cashman, University of Nevada, Reno, NV and Wanda Taylor, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV and James H. Trexler, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

282949 (Technical Sessions)
8:45 AM

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF LATE PALEOZOIC STRUCTURES IN NEVADA: PROGRESSIVE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN LAURENTIAN MARGIN

Patricia Cashman, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and James H. Trexler, University of Nevada, Reno, NV and Daniel M. Sturmer, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

283795 (Technical Sessions)
9:00 AM

ORIGIN AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS ALLOCHTHON: NEW INSIGHTS FROM U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND HF-ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS

Gwen M. Linde, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

282072 (Technical Sessions)
9:15 AM

STRUCTURES IN THE TIMPAHUTE AND PAHRANAGAT RANGES, SOUTH-CENTRAL NEVADA, AS A PART OF REGIONAL LATE PALEOZOIC DEFORMATIONS

Wanda Taylor, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV and Angela G. Russo, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV

283323 (Technical Sessions)
9:45 AM

THE PARADOX BASIN AND SEDIMENT ROUTING IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE LATE PALEOZOIC

Tyson Smith, University of Houston, Houston, CO and Joel E. Saylor, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Thomas J. Lapen, University of Houston, Houston, TX

284710 (Technical Sessions)
10:00 AM

SYNOROGENIC DEPOSITION IN AN EAST-NORTHEAST TRENDING HALF-GRABEN DURING LATE OLIGOCENE TO MID-MIOCENE NORTH-SOUTH EXTENSION IN WEST-CENTRAL NEVADA

Scott R. Kerstetter, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and John S. Oldow, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

284921 (Technical Sessions)
10:15 AM

DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUCKSKIN-RAWHIDE DETACHMENT FAULT SYSTEM, WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA: EVIDENCE FROM THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD

Michael G. Prior, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and John S. Singleton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

287831 (Technical Sessions)
10:30 AM

PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN STRATIGRAPHY AND PROVENANCE OF THE NORTH SLOPE OF ARCTIC ALASKA: A RECORD OF IAPETUS CLOSURE AND STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION ALONG THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF LAURENTIA

Justin Strauss, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Benjamin Johnson, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV and William P. Ward, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Bill McClelland, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

278661 (Technical Sessions)
10:45 AM

GEOLOGY, U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND HAFNIUM ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY ACROSS THE ALASKA RANGE SUTURE ZONE (SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA): INSIGHTS INTO COLLISIONAL PROCESSES AND CORDILLERAN TECTONICS

Mariah Romero, Bozeman, MT and Kenneth Ridgway, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and George Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

284967 (Technical Sessions)
11:00 AM

DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB MDA AND AGE PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNROOFING OF THE WILLARD-PARIS-MEADE THRUST SHEETS, SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT

Amanda Gentry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Michael Wells, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Adolph Yonkee, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

285309 (Technical Sessions)
11:15 AM

WERE CORE COMPLEX COVER ROCKS IN NE NEVADA BURIED TO GREAT DEPTH DURING METAMORPHISM? – I DON’T THINK SO!!

Charles Thorman, Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO

286239 (Technical Sessions)