31 Stratigraphic Studies in the Colorado Plateau

This session features stratigraphic studies that resolve the geological history of modern and ancient sediment routing systems, and their processes, within the Colorado Plateau using data from field, analytical, experimental and/or numerical modeling investigations.

Tuesday, 19 May 2026
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Alvarado C

Participants

• Chair Eugene Szymanski
• Chair Matthew C. Morriss
• Chair Ryan Gall
• Chair Cari L. Johnson
• Chair Liz Mahon

Presentations

• 1:32 PM
  Stratigraphic and Depositional Environmental Analysis of the conglomeratic sandstone of Knight Canyon (Paleocene?), Grant County, New Mexico
  Russell Nielson, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
  410536 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:52 PM
  The lower Permian Yeso Group in the Sandia Mountains, central New Mexico: a critical juncture in the Yeso depositional systems
  Spencer Lucas, New Mexico Mseum of Natural History, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Karl Krainer, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck
  410523 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:12 PM
  New Insight into Spatiotemporal Patterns of San Juan Basin Exhumation using (U-Th)/He Analysis
  Kevin Martin, New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM and Ryan Leary, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico and Shari Kelley, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Los Alamos, NM and Veronica Prush, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Martin Reyes, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Socorro, NM
  410676 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:42 PM
  Unresolved Geology Problems in Early Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Southeast Utah
  Eugene Szymanski, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Matthew Morriss, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Ryan Gall, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Stefan Kirby, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT
  410483 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:02 PM
  Bridging the Divide: Toward a Unified Chronostratigraphic Framework for Early Cretaceous Strata in the Abajo Mountains Region, Southeast Utah
  Eugene Szymanski, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Matthew Morriss, Utah Geological Survey, SALT LAKE CITY, UT and Ryan Gall, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Stefan Kirby, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Kate Andrzejewski, Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, KS and Andreas Möller, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  410725 (Technical Sessions)