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Activity

2024

• SOME PUZZLING OBSERVATIONS AND A NEW TAKE ON EXTENSIONAL METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX (MCC) DETACHMENT FAULTS
  T170 Structural Analysis, Digital Mapping Advances, Tectonics, and Tectonic-Climate Processes from California to Alaska and Elsewhere I: A Celebration of Terry Pavlis’s Diverse Contributions and Career
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 10:55 AM

  304A

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2023

• TIMING OF MESOZOIC EXHUMATION OF THE METAMORPHIC CORE OF THE SOUTHERN BROOKS RANGE: NEW CONSTRAINTS FROM LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  27 Late Jurassic to Eocene Tectonics of the North America Cordillera III: Evolving and Emerging Models
  Friday, 19 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• THE BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA, HAS A COMPLICATED HISTORY AS AN OROGEN: TRIBUTE TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF GIL MULL
  T76 The Geological Evolution of Northern Alaska: A Session in Honor of Charles ?Gil? Mull
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3C
• STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE JOHN RIVER REGION, BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA: MID-CRETACEOUS EXTENSIONAL OVERPRINTING AND EXHUMATION OF A JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS CONTRACTIONAL OROGEN
  T76 The Geological Evolution of Northern Alaska: A Session in Honor of Charles ?Gil? Mull
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3C
• PROTEROZOIC ROCK UNITS IN THE SOUTHERN BROOKS RANGE, ARCTIC ALASKA, TIES TO BALTICA?
  18 Neo-Insights into the Neoproterozoic of Western North America
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 112
• THE BOUNDARY CANYON DETACHMENT FAULT (BCF), FUNERAL MOUNTAINS, CA-NV: NEW INSIGHT INTO ITS DEVELOPMENT
  10 Honorary Session for B. Clark Burchfiel and Gregory A. Davis for Their Seminal Contribution to the Modern Understanding of the North America Cordilleran Orogen II
  Tuesday, 15 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 106

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2021

• THE NEVADAPLANO: WHEN, WHY, AND HOW HIGH?
  9 Tectonic and Magmatic Thickening of Mesozoic North American Cordillera
  Thursday, 13 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  UNR Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering Room

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2019

• PRELIMINARY DETRITAL ZIRCON STUDY OF THE OLIGOCENE TITUS CANYON FORMATION, DEATH VALLEY, SUGGESTS CENTRAL NEVADA SOURCES
  7 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award) (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B
• EVOLUTION OF THE ARCTIC ALASKA-CHUKOTKA MICROPLATE FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON ANALYSIS OF CRETACEOUS SEDIMENTS OF THE NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA, AND JURA-CRETACEOUS PLUTONS AND SEDIMENTS OF CHUKOTKA, RUSSIA
  7 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award) (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B
• POSSIBLE EVIDENCE FOR LARGE DEPARTURES FROM LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE DURING CRETACEOUS METAMORPHISM IN THE NORTHERN SNAKE RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX (MCC), NEVADA
  7 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award) (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B
• DEEP CRUST HISTORY OF EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA USING ZIRCON XENOCRYST PETROCHRONOLOGY
  7 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award) (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B
• A HISTORY OF GEOLOGIC RESEARCH ON SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA, BY ELIZABETH MILLER AND COLLABORATORS: CRUSTAL EXTENSION FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
  13 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic II: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Room B117-119
• A SYNTHESIS OF DETRITAL ZIRCON DATA ACROSS 250 KM OF THE CENTRAL AND SCHIST BELTS OF THE BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCTIC TECTONIC SUTURES
  7 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award) (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B

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2018

• SILICIC MAGMAS AND TECTONICS: ZIRCON XENOCRYSTS HELP REVEAL THERMAL HISTORY AND RHEOLOGY OF THE CRUST ACROSS THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FROM THE CRETACEOUS TO THE MIOCENE
  T66 Different Personalities of Granites and Rhyolites: Silicic Magmas from the Lower Crust to the Surface II—A Session in Honor of Calvin Miller, Recipient of the MGPV Distinguished Geological Career Award
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 240-241
• SOME PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION OF METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES (MCC'S) OF THE NORTHERN BASIN AND RANGE
  46 Cordilleran Core Complexes and Arizona Geology III: A Celebration of Jon Spencer's Career
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Canyon Room

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2017

• CONTRASTING CRETACEOUS PALEODRAINAGE SYSTEMS OF BASINS FLANKING THE BROOKS RANGE, ARCTIC ALASKA
  T344 New Perspectives on Cordilleran Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Metallogeny
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 5
• EPISODICITY AND THE DANCE OF MAGMATISM AND DEFORMATION ALONG THE NORTHERN CIRCUM-PACIFIC MARGIN: NE RUSSIA TO THE CORDILLERA
  T107 The Dance of Arcs: Causes of Arc Migrations, Flare-Ups, and Magmatic Focusing I
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Skagit 4
• EXHUMATION OF HP/LT METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE SCHIST BELT, SOUTHERN BROOKS RANGE AS REVEALED BY THERMOBAROMETRY AND 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  T90 Circum-Arctic Structural Events: Tectonic Evolution of the Arctic Margins and Trans-Arctic Links with Adjacent Orogens (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls 4EF

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2016

• MAGMATISM AND DEFORMATION ALONG THE NORTHERN CIRCUM-PACIFIC MARGIN FROM NE RUSSIA TO THE CORDILLERA
  T267 Plate Tectonics, Arc-Trench Systems, Cordilleran Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, Sandstone Provenance, and Geoarchaeology (Posters): A Celebration of William R. Dickinson's Career
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• A SYNTHESIS OF NORTHERN CIRCUM-PACIFIC MAGMATISM AND TECTONISM ASSOCIATED WITH CIRCUM-ARCTIC LITHOSPHERE EVOLUTION (CALE) TRANSECT C
  T164 Recent Advances in Understanding Magmatism along and within the Northern North American Cordillera (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• A LINK BETWEEN PALEO-PACIFIC SUBDUCTION AND ARC MAGMATISM ALONG THE MARGIN OF NORTH AMERICA IN THE BROOKS RANGE, ARCTIC ALASKA: REVEALED BY THE SEDIMENTS OF THE YUKON KOYUKUK BASIN (AK)
  T47 Recent Advances in Understanding Magmatism along and within the Northern North American Cordillera
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 205

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2015

• METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY AND THE “NEVADAPLANO”
  T167 Metamorphic Petrology: New Approaches and Outcomes
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 317
• EXTENSIONAL UNROOFING OF THE BROOKS RANGE REVEALED BY U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON SUITES FROM YUKON-KOYUKUK BASIN STRATA
  12 Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Energy Resource Potential of the Northern Cordillera
  Tuesday, 12 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 117
• ORDOVICIAN ARC ROCKS OF THE YREKA SUBTERRANE, EASTERN KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, AND POSSIBLE LINKS TO THE ALEXANDER TERRANE AND THE ARCTIC CALEDONIDES
  11 New Discoveries in Resolving the Terrane Assembly of Western North American and Northeast Asia (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Atrium/Hallway
• EARLY BROOKIAN OROGENESIS AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERASIA BASIN OF THE ARCTIC: ARE THEY SIMULTANEOUS?
  1 Origins and Orogenies of Arctic Alaska: Honoring the Career of Alison Till, U.S. Geological Survey–Anchorage
  Monday, 11 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lecture Hall

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2014

• STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF WRANGEL ISLAND, ARCTIC RUSSIA
  T326 Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution II
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  121
• U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF NEOPROTEROZOIC BASEMENT ROCKS AND PALEOZOIC COVER SEQUENCES ON WRANGEL ISLAND AND IN ARCTIC CHUKOTKA
  T210 Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• APTIAN THERMAL PEAK AND THE EXTENSIONAL FRAGMENTATION OF THE BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA: GEOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM METAMORPHIC ZIRCON IN THE SCHIST BELT
  T210 Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• RECONCILING GEOLOGY, GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND PLATE MOTIONS IN THE AMERASIA BASIN
  T210 Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• CHUKCHI AND BEYOND -- GEOPHYSICAL MODELS OF THE CHUKCHI BORDERLANDS AND ITS BOUNDARIES, AMERASIA BASIN OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN
  T210 Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• ZIRCON XENOCRYST EVIDENCE OF MAGMATIC MOBILIZATION AND HOMOGENIZATION OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA DEEP CRUST DURING THE EOCENE MAGMATIC SWEEP
  23 The Early Tertiary Magmatic Firestorm of the U.S. and Canadian Cordillera: Geochemical, Petrological, and Tectonic Constraints
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Procrastinator Theater
• STRATIGRAPHY AND AGE OF CENOZOIC SYN-EXTENSIONAL SEDIMENTARY BASINS, EAST CENTRAL NEVADA
  12 Snoke Session 1: The Eclectic Tectonic Legacy of Arthur W. Snoke—Metamorphic Core Complexes at Age 35 II
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

  Gaines Hall 101
• INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGINS OF METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES (MCC'S) FROM THE ALBION-RAFT RIVER-GROUSE CREEK (ARG) REGION
  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

• 1:24,000 SCALE GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF CENOZOIC UNITS IN HUNTINGTON VALLEY AND THE EASTERN PIÑON RANGE, ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA
  T146 Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• SEVIER-LARAMIDE EVOLUTION OF GREAT BASIN DEEP CRUST ENCAPSULATED IN GROWTH HISTORIES OF ZIRCON MICROXENOLITHS FROM MEGACRYSTIC MUSCOVITE GRANITES
  T87 Processes and Timescales of Magma Evolution in the Crust: Insights from the Past Fifty Years and Approaches for the Next Fifty Years
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 205
• THE SECRET LIVES OF MOUNTAIN BELTS REVEALED BY U-PB DATING OF DETRITAL ZIRCON SUITES:  THE LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS BROADER BROOKS RANGE-VERKOYANSK OROGEN, ARCTIC ALASKA AND NE RUSSIA
  29 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle
  Wednesday, 22 May 2013

  8:40 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon A1
• GEOLOGIC MAPPING, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY IN HUNTINGTON VALLEY AND THE EASTERN PIÑON RANGE, NORTHEAST NEVADA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE ELKO BASIN AND SURROUNDINGS
  27 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C
• NEW LOOK AT NEOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS OF THE YREKA TERRANE, KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, N. CALIFORNIA
  27 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C

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2012

• MAGMATICALLY INDUCED DIAPIRIC RISE OF THE ALBION-RAFT RIVER-GROUSE CREEK METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX
  T21 Dynamics of Gneiss Domes, Core Complexes, and Orogenic Plateaux
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207D

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2011

• THE SNAKE RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, NEVADA—A CLOSER LOOK
  2 From Contraction to Extension: The Mesozoic to Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Great Basin I
  Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Willow
• NATURE AND PROGRESSION OF MAGMATISM IN AND AROUND THE ALBION-RAFT RIVER-GROUSE CREEK METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX
  8 From Contraction to Extension: The Mesozoic to Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Great Basin (Posters)
  Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2010

• BALTICA IN THE CORDILLERA?
  T243 New Insights on the Tectonic, Magmatic, Paleobiogeographic, and Metallogenic Evolution of Terranes in the North American Cordillera from Alaska to California I
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 406
• 3D VISUALIZATION OF ARCTIC OCEAN MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRIC DATA AND THE CONSTRAINTS IT OFFERS TO TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION MODELS
  T172 Virtual Tectonics
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Hall E
• THE TWO-STAGE EVOLUTION OF METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES: EXAMPLES FROM THE NORTHERN BASIN AND RANGE
  T124 Controls and Consequences of Continental Rifting: From Heat Flow, Stress, and Strain to Magmatism, Landscape-Basin Evolution, and Development of Natural Resources (Posters)
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D

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2009

• ARCTIC PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND TECTONICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CORDILLERAN TERRANES
  5 Paleozoic Paleogeography of Cordilleran Terranes II
  Thursday, 7 May 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2007

• PLATE TECTONICS AND THE MAGMATIC BELTS OF NE RUSSIA AND ADJACENT ALASKA: A DECADE OF FIELD AND U-PB (SHRIMP-RG) GEOCHRONOLOGIC STUDIES
  T196 Geochemistry of Magmatic and Metamorphic Processes I: In Honor of the Contributions of Joseph L. Wooden
  Wednesday, 31 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• NSF CONTINENTAL DYNAMICS FIELD LABORATORIES, 20 YEARS ON: THE BERING SHELF AND SURROUNDING LANDMASSES- A TRIBUTE TO MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
  T81 NSF Continental Dynamics Field Laboratories I: 20 Years On
  Monday, 23 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM