4 Sedimentary Systems and Provenance in the Western Cordillera

This session invites contributions on sedimentary processes, depositional environments, stratigraphic frameworks, and provenance evolution across western North America. Topics may include basin analysis, source-to-sink studies, and applications of stratigraphy to energy and environmental questions.

Wednesday, 22 April 2026
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LMH, Fiesta Terrace Salon

Participants

• Chair Elena Centeno-Garcia
• Chair Rebecca Dorsey

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  Characterizing Sediment Sources and Grain-Source Attribution Using Detrital Zircon Petrochronology
  Joel Saylor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Nicholas Richardson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia and Naomi Graham, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia and Robert Lee, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia and Michael Friedlander, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
  410941 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Late Devonian Earn Group: Implications for paleodrainage reorganization in northern Canada during renewed subduction
  Emilia Caylor, University of British Columbia and Joel Saylor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Kenneth Hickey, University of British Columbia, Greater Vancouver, BC and Shaun Barker, University of British Columbia
  410978 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  Tectonic Reassessment of the Tahue Terrane (Guerrero Composite Terrane) from Sm–Nd Isotopes and U–Pb Detrital Zircon Ages
  Elena Centeno-Garcia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and Gerardo Arrieta, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and Pedro Arredondo-Guerrero, Mexico City
  411034 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  Regional Detrital Zircon Analysis of Synorogenic Basins Explains the Multi-Phase Development of the Central Andean Foreland Basin and Emergence of the Eastern Cordillera.
  Samuel Shekut, University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC and Joel Saylor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Paola Alvarez, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Muhammad Rafeeza, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Oceane Horvath, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Ruben Jallaza, La Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, La Paz and Carlos Saul, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Cusco
  411033 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  Sepur-Soyaló foreland basin (Late Cretaceous–Paleogene): a sedimentary record of the North American–Caribbean plate collision in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico.
  Ricardo Milián de la Cruz, UNAM - Mexico Centro de Geociencias, Querétaro, QRO and Uwe Martens, UNAM Centro de Geociencias, Juriquilla, Queretaro, QRO and Maria Sierra-Rojas, Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia and Luigi Solari, UNAM Centro de Geociencias, Queretaro, QRO
  410913 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  Sedimentation in the Forearc Basin During the Eocene in the Vizcaino and Laguna San Ignacio Region, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  Elvia Plata Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, (None) and Tobias Schwennicke, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, (None) and Uwe Jenchen, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Linares, Nuevo Leon and Yam Zul Ernesto Ocampo Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí and JoséAntonio Pérez Venzor, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, (None) and Georgina Brabata Dominguez, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, (None)
  411075 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  Yo-yo tectonics recorded in the Maniobra Basin of the southwestern US Cordillera
  Robinson Cecil, California State University, Northridge, CA and Richard Heermance, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA and Francis Sousa, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
  411065 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  Sedimentary Environments and Provenance of the Cenozoic Yanhuitlán Formation, Oaxaca: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Southern Mexico
  Jorge Zavala Rivera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geologia, Ciudad Universitaria, DF and Elena Centeno-Garcia, UNAM Institute of Geology, Mexico City, DF and Iván Mateo-Paulino, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, ESIA Unidad Ticoman,México, Mexico City, Mexico
  410995 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  A series of Pleistocene beach rides are the rocky substrate for the Cabo Pulmo reef, Gulf of California
  Enrique Nava-Sanchez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional - CICIMAR, La Paz, Baja California Sur and Janette Murillo-Jiménez, Instituto Politécnico Nacional - CICIMAR, La Paz, Baja California Sur and Eymeé Sosa-Parodis, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, La Paz, Baja California Sur
  411073 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Properties of Salt-Influenced Miocene Deepwater Sandstones, Salina del Istmo Basin, Gulf of Mexico
  Sandra Guerrero Moreno, UNAM- Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, México., Mexico and Claudia Mendoza-Rosales, UNAM-Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, México., Ciudad de México, CDMX and Salatiel Diaz, UNAM-Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de México, México., Jojutla
  411007 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  Preliminary study of the diversity of the Baculitidae family in the El Rosario Formation, Salsipuedes locality of the Upper Cretaceous in Baja California, Mexico: advances in paleoenvironmental research
  Adán Hernández-Morales, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja California and Diana Arenas-Islas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California , Ensenada , Baja California
  411022 (Technical Sessions)