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Activity

2024

• METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES AT CRUSTAL THRUST RAMPS: A TEMPLATE FOR TECTONIC INHERITANCE
  T147 Tectonic Inheritance in Orogenic Systems
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  304A
• LARAMIDE SHORTENING IN THE CLARK MOUNTAIN THRUST COMPLEX
  T23 Linking Continental Geologic Records to Geodynamic Models for the Cretaceous-Paleogene Development of the Mojave Region
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304B
• INFLUENCE OF NEOPROTEROZOIC TO PALEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE ON TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SEVIER AND LARAMIDE BELTS
  T21 North American Cordilleran Margin Tectonic Framework: Paleozoic and Precambrian
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304A

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2023

• GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE ALBION, RAFT RIVER, AND GROUSE CREEK MOUNTAINS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ARCHEAN HISTORY OF WESTERN LAURENTIA
  36 Graduate Student Research (Posters)
  Friday, 19 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Cargo Room
• EPISODIC LATE JURASSIC AND MID CRETACEOUS SHORTENING IN THE SOUTHERN SEVIER FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT AND HINTERLAND
  26 Late Jurassic to Eocene Tectonics of the North America Cordillera II: Evolving and Emerging Models
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1
• TESTING TECTONIC MODELS FOR MESOZOIC SHORTENING, INTRUSION, AND EXTENSION IN SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA USING DETAILED CRUSTAL THICKNESS DATA
  26 Late Jurassic to Eocene Tectonics of the North America Cordillera II: Evolving and Emerging Models
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• ESTIMATES OF GEOLOGIC PRESSURES IN THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS AND THE WOOD HILLS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES: QUIG VERSES THERMODYNAMIC MODELING
  42 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Geoscience at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  Thursday, 17 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 106
• 101 MA SHORTENING ALONG FRONTAL THRUSTS WITHIN THE SOUTHERN SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT: BIRD SPRING RANGE, SOUTHERN NEVADA
  45 Sedimentary Record of Cordilleran Orogenic Systems
  Thursday, 17 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 112
• THE ANTLER OROGENY RECORDED IN DETRITAL MULTI-MINERAL U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, SOUTHERN NEVADA
  28 Paleozoic Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Southwestern Cordillera and Rocky Mountain Region
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 112

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2021

• THE 100 MA EVENT IN THE SOUTHERN SEVIER BELT OF NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA
  T66 The 100-Ma Event on the Western Margin of North America
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107–A109
• UNDERTHRUSTING, UPPER-CRUSTAL COOLING, AND PROGRADE METAMORPHISM IN THE NORTHERN PANAMINT RANGE, CA: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERNMOST SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT
  T66 The 100-Ma Event on the Western Margin of North America
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107–A109
• TECTONIC TEMPOS OF THE NORTH AMERICA CORDILLERA RETROARC DURING THE MID-CRETACEOUS: EXPLORING INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN PLATE DYNAMICS, THRUST SLIP HISTORIES, FORELAND BASIN SEDIMENTATION, AND THE ARCHIVE OF ARC MAGMATISM FROM NEVADA TO WYOMING
  T66 The 100-Ma Event on the Western Margin of North America
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107–A109

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2020

• DETACHMENT FAULTS AND FOOTWALL MYLONITES: ARE THEY COGENETIC?
  T72 Strain in the Footwalls of Detachment Faults: New Insights on the 40th Anniversary of the Seminal GSA Memoir “Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes”
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHERN PANAMINT RANGE, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA: EVIDENCE FOR SYNCONVERGENT LATE CRETACEOUS EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE OF THE SEVIER-LARAMIDE OROGEN
  27 The Enigmatic Late Cretaceous-Paleogene Tectonic Evolution of the Southwestern USA
  Wednesday, 13 May 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  San Rafael
• DIFFERING STRUCTURAL STYLES OF HINTERLAND AND FORELAND THRUSTS: A CASE STUDY IN THE PANAMINT RANGE, CA
  11 Impacts of Arc Activity on the Rheology of the Lithosphere across Convergent Margins (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 May 2020

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Fountain Ballroom

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2019

• THERMOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE PERMO-TRIASSIC PALEO-TETHYS TECTONICS IN EASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU
  T283 From Oceanic Subduction to Inter-Continental Collision: Examples of Convergent Margin Processes in Non-Collisional and Collisional Settings (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• TRONDHJEMITIC MELTS DERIVED FROM FLUID-PRESENT PARTIAL MELTING OF METAPELITES DURING CHANNELIZED FLUID FLUX, FUNERAL MOUNTAINS DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  T4 Metamorphism and Orogenesis at Convergent Plate Margins
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• CONSTRAINTS FROM MONAZITE AND XENOTIME PETROCHRONOLOGY ON BURIAL AND EXHUMATION FROM THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA WITH IMPLICATIONS ON U.S. CORDILLERAN JURASSIC PLATE BOUNDARY TECTONICS
  T4 Metamorphism and Orogenesis at Convergent Plate Margins
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• THE CASE FOR LATE CRETACEOUS EXTENSION IN THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX
  2 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic I: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room B117-119

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2018

• CONSTRAINTS FROM MONAZITE AND XENOTIME PETROCHRONOLOGY ON JURASSIC PT PATHS FROM THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
  62 Tectonics of the Death Valley Region: A Tribute to Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright (Posters)
  Thursday, 17 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• TECTONIC INHERITANCE IN CORDILLERAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  27 Cordilleran Core Complexes and Arizona Geology II: A Celebration of Jon Spencer's Career
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  10:20 AM - 12:05 PM

  Canyon Room
• TIMING AND KINEMATICS OF MESOZOIC BURIAL AND CONTRACTIONAL DEFORMATION IN THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CA
  18 Tectonics of the Death Valley Region III: A Tribute to Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright
  Tuesday, 15 May 2018

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Canyon Room

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2017

• EVALUATING ARC PERIODICITY AND GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION WITHIN THE CENTRAL NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA: CONSTRAINTS FROM THE U-PB AND HF ISOTOPE RECORD OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS IN FORELAND STRATA
  T344 New Perspectives on Cordilleran Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Metallogeny
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 5
• STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC HISTORY OF THE CHLORIDE CLIFF REGION: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC INHERITANCE IN THE FORMATION OF THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, DEATH VALLEY, CA
  T116 What Are the Conditions That Lead to Detachment Faulting?
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 3
• NEW PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATHS FROM THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, RECORDING LATE JURASSIC BURIAL AND EXHUMATION DURING EARLY SEVIER OROGENESIS
  T116 What Are the Conditions That Lead to Detachment Faulting?
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 3
• RESOLVING STRATIGRAPHIC COMPLEXITIES OF THE PAHRUMP GROUP AND MIGMATITE PROTOLITH IN THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX USING U-PB DZ GEOCHRONOLOGY
  88 D24. Stratigraphy (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls 4EF

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2016

• DEVELOPMENT AND DISAGGREGATION OF A PLUTONIC COMPLEX IN SE CALIFORNIA: CONSTRAINTS ON LATE CRETACEOUS COLLAPSE OF THE SEVIER OROGEN
  T317 Tectonics of North American Cordillera and the Alps: Celebrating the Telling-It-Like-It-Is Scientific Career of Tim Wawrzyniec
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2B
• DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB MDA AND AGE PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNROOFING OF THE WILLARD-PARIS-MEADE THRUST SHEETS, SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT
  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
• A MAJOR MID-CRETACEOUS SHORTENING EVENT IN THE SOUTHERN SEVIER OROGENIC BELT: CONTINENTAL RECORD OF GLOBAL PLATE REORGANIZATION?
  T143 Plate Tectonics, Arc-Trench Systems, Cordilleran Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, Sandstone Provenance, and Geoarchaeology I: A Celebration of William R. Dickinson's Career
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2B
• TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE BRISTOL AND GRANITE MOUNTAINS IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS TO THE NEOGENE
  26 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Ballroom C
• PATTERNS OF SYNOROGENIC SEDIMENTATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNROOFING OF THE WILLARD-PARIS-MEADE THRUST SHEETS, SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT
  5 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (Posters)
  Monday, 4 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  Ballroom C

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2015

• UV LASERPROBE 40AR/39AR  DATING OF EARLY INTERNAL STRAIN AND LATE FLUID-INDUCED STRAIN LOCALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE WILLARD THRUST, UTAH
  T74 Perspectives on Orogenic Evolution, Dating Brittle Faults and Mylonitic Shear Zones, Bending Mountains, and Assembling Supercontinents II: A Session to Honor the Career of Ben Van Der Pluijm
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 343

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2014

• GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE GROUSE CREEK AND EAST PART OF THE JACKPOT 30' X 60' QUADRANGLES – A KEY ARCHIVE OF UTAH’S GEOLOGIC HISTORY
  34 Geologic Maps: Record of the Past, Foundation for the Future (Posters)
  Wednesday, 21 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom B, C, D
• KINEMATICS AND TIMING OF INTRACORE SHEAR ZONES IN THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, DEATH VALLEY, CA
  17 Snoke Session 1: The Eclectic Tectonic Legacy of Arthur W. Snoke—Metamorphic Core Complexes at Age 35 (Posters)
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom B, C, D
• CONSTRAINING THE AGE OF THE ARCHEAN BASEMENT OF THE GROUSE CREEK BLOCK AND OVERLYING NEOPROTEROZOIC SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS, NORTHWESTERN UTAH AND SOUTHERN IDAHO
  19 Precambrian I: Archean and Paleoproterozoic Crustal Evolution of Western Laurentia (Posters)
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom B, C, D
• POLYGENETIC ORIGIN FOR METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE RAFT RIVER-ALBION-GROUSE CREEK METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX
  3 Snoke Session 1: The Eclectic Tectonic Legacy of Arthur W. Snoke—Metamorphic Core Complexes at Age 35 I
  Monday, 19 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Gaines Hall 101

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2013

• THE SEVIER-LARAMIDE HINTERLAND: INITIAL LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS SHORTENING, RENEWED EARLY LATE CRETACEOUS SHORTENING AND THE INFLUENCE OF A DELAMINATION CYCLE ON WEDGE MECHANICS
  T293 Hinterland, Retroarc Fold- Thrust Belt, and Foreland Systems
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507
• MESOZOIC ANCESTRY OF THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX: INFLUENCE OF THRUST BURIAL AND INCLINED RHEOLOGICAL LAYERING ON POLYPHASE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC EXTENSIONAL REACTIVATION
  T217 The Role of Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Extension
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 507
• UNRAVELING THE HISTORY OF CRUSTAL THICKENING IN THE SEVIER OROGENIC BELT WITH LU-HF GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY AND PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE PATHS FROM METAMORPHIC ROCKS
  T211 Dating the Prograde Path in Metamorphic Rocks: Methods, Advances, Limitations, and Applications
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• EARLY CRETACEOUS (VALANGINIAN) CRUSTAL THICKENING IN THE SEVIER HINTERLAND FROM GARNET P–T PATHS AND LU–HF GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY, SOUTHERN IDAHO
  T211 Dating the Prograde Path in Metamorphic Rocks: Methods, Advances, Limitations, and Applications
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• TECTONIC TRANSECT OF THE SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT: EVOLUTION OF A COMPLEX OROGENIC WEDGE
  T293 Hinterland, Retroarc Fold- Thrust Belt, and Foreland Systems
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507
• THE APPLICATION OF ZIRCON (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY TO DETERMINE THE TIMING AND SLIP RATE ON THE WILLARD THRUST, SEVIER FOLD AND THRUST BELT, NORTHERN UTAH
  T293 Hinterland, Retroarc Fold- Thrust Belt, and Foreland Systems
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507
• EARLY EOCENE METAMORPHISM IN THE SEVIER HINTERLAND CONSTRAINED BY LU-HF GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY
  33 Oceanic Petrogenesis of Pacific-Type Convergent Margins (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 May 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon B/C
• TWO EXHUMATION EVENTS OF THE WHEELER PASS THRUST SHEET IN THE SOUTHERN SEVIER OROGEN FROM (U-TH)/HE ZIRCON THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  35 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 May 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon B/C

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2011

• AN UPDATED N-SHAPED PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE-TIME PATH FROM THE GROUSE CREEK MOUNTAINS, UTAH: AN EXAMPLE OF AN OROGENIC CYCLE
  26 Deep Crustal Perspectives on Cordilleran Orogenesis
  Friday, 20 May 2011

  8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Cottonwood
• EOCENE TO MIOCENE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE MOUNTAIN SHEAR ZONE SYSTEM
  10 From Contraction to Extension: The Mesozoic to Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Great Basin II
  Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Willow
• PALEOGENE HINTERLAND TO FORELAND TOPOGRAPHY: EOCENE DEPOSITS OF NORTHWEST UTAH
  10 From Contraction to Extension: The Mesozoic to Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Great Basin II
  Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Willow
• STRUCTURAL AND VOLCANIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN CURLEW VALLEY, NORTHWEST UTAH
  10 From Contraction to Extension: The Mesozoic to Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Great Basin II
  Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Willow

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2010

• PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE PATHS FROM GARNET ZONING: INTEGRATING GIBBS METHOD AND G-MINIMIZATION APPROACHES
  T240 Garnet and Its Use in Unraveling Metamorphic and Tectonic Processes
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 1CD
• LATE CRETACEOUS AND LATE MIOCENE MOTION on THE BOUNDARY CANYON DETACHMENT FAULT CONSTRAINED BY 40Ar/39Ar AND (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOMETRY: FUNERAL MOUNTAINS, DEATH VALLEY
  T185 Geology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, Education, and Outreach (Posters)
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D

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2009

• GEODYNAMICS OF SYNCONVERGENT EXTENSION AND TECTONIC MODE SWITCHING: CONSTRAINTS FROM THE SEVIER-LARAMIDE OROGEN
  T231 New Developments in Understanding the Mesozoic Cordilleran Orogen: Linking Forearc, Arc, and Backarc Processes
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107/108/109
• DISEQUILIBRIUM CRYSTALLIZATION OF GARNET CORES FOLLOWED BY EQUILIBRIUM RIM GROWTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR DETERMINING PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE PATHS, ALBION MOUNTAINS, IDAHO
  T85 Advances in Understanding Metamorphic Processes: Nanoscale to Nappes I
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E143/144
• JURASSIC SHORTENING AND EPISODIC EXTENSION IN THE FUNERAL MOUNTAINS CORE COMPLEX, DEATH VALLEY, SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA
  T40 The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern United States (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2008

• MULTIPLE TRIGGERS FOR MULTIPLE EPISODES OF SYNCONVERGENT EXTENSION IN THE SEVIER HINTERLAND
  19 Driving Mechanisms and Structural Styles of Synconvergent Extension
  Thursday, 20 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
• TEXTURAL EVIDENCE FROM GARNET SCHIST FOR A MAJOR SYNCONVERGENT EXHUMATION EVENT IN THE HINTERLAND OF THE SEVIER OROGENIC BELT
  19 Driving Mechanisms and Structural Styles of Synconvergent Extension
  Thursday, 20 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
• TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF LATE CRETACEOUS EXTENSION AND GRANITE PRODUCTION IN THE MOJAVE DESERT REGION: DELAMINATION OF MANTLE LITHOSPHERE AT THE ONSET OF THE LARAMIDE OROGENY?
  7 Causes and Consequences of Laramide Tectonics in the Forearc, Arc, and Backarc of the Southwestern United States
  Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM