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Activity

2025

• MID-CRETACEOUS DEFORMATION AND ISOTOPIC DISTURBANCE OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC-PALEOZOIC METASEDIMENTARY FRAMEWORK OF THE SOUTHWESTERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC
  2 Mysteries of the Sierra Nevada
  Wednesday, 2 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Fresno

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2024

• PETROGENESIS OF A MIDDLE JURASSIC “HIGH SIERRA”-TYPE INTRUSION: THE SACATAR INTRUSIVE COMPLEX, KERN PLATEAU, SOUTHEASTERN SIERRA NEVADA, CA
  T167 Magmatism and Accreted Terranes from the North American Cordillera to the Norwegian Caledonides I: a Session in Honor of the Scientific Contributions of Calvin G. Barnes
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207B
• SECULAR EVOLUTION OF PLUTONIC ZIRCON ΕHFI VALUES FROM THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC: A RECORD OF THE CHANGING ORGANIZATION OF MESOZOIC SUBDUCTION ZONES
  T71 The Changing Cordilleran Margin: Permian through Eocene Tectonism, Magmatism, and General Geology from Western Mexico through Northern California and Eastward
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  304A
• DETRITAL ZIRCON-BASED RECONSTRUCTION OF THE RIFTED LAURENTIAN MARGIN IN THE SOUTHWESTERN SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS: FROM PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT, THROUGH NEOPROTEROZOIC RIFT ZONE, TO EXOTIC EARLY MESOZOIC TURBIDITES
  4 Structure and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera and Rocky Mountains I
  Wednesday, 15 May 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Maple Ballroom

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2023

• U-PB DISCORDANCE MODELING OF MOJAVE PROVINCE ZIRCON FROM THE IVANPAH MOUNTAINS (EASTERN MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA) MAY RECORD ARC-RELATED HYDROTHERMAL INDUCED LEAD-LOSS
  T245 Advances in Detrital Heavy Minerals: Applications and Methods (Posters)
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• A TOP-TO-BOTTOM TIMELINE FOR PERMIAN TO EARLY CRETACEOUS EXTENSION WITHIN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC: ZIRCON U-PB-HF STUDIES OF CRYSTALLINE ROCKS FROM THE KERN PLATEAU AND GREENHORN MOUNTAINS
  13 Late Jurassic to Eocene Tectonics of the North America Cordillera I: Evolving and Emerging Models
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• USING DISCORDANT ZIRCON TO RE-EVALUATE THE NORTHERN EL PASO TERRANE: LATE PALEOZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIA, EXTENSION OF THE PERMIAN ARC, AND A MIDDLE JURASSIC HYDROTHERMAL EVENT WITHIN THE SOUTHEASTERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC
  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

• USING DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHEMISTRY TO STUDY DEEP ARC PROCESSES
  2 Petrology, Geochemistry, and Structure of Cordilleran Batholiths Through Space and Time
  Wednesday, 12 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Desert Research Institute Room

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2020

• USING DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHEMISTRY TO STUDY DEEP ARC PROCESSES
  31 Petrology, Geochemistry, and Structure of Cordilleran Batholiths through Space and Time
  Thursday, 14 May 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Plaza Room
• COUPLED ZIRCON HAFNIUM AND OXYGEN ISOTOPES OF LOW MG# GABBROS: MIXING BETWEEN PARTIAL MELTS OF CONTINENTAL CRUST AND DEPLETED MANTLE IN THE DEEP ARC LITHOSPHERE, SOUTHEASTERN SIERRA NEVADA
  31 Petrology, Geochemistry, and Structure of Cordilleran Batholiths through Space and Time
  Thursday, 14 May 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Plaza Room

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2019

• ZIRCON HAFNIUM ISOTOPE RECORD OF DEPLETED MANTLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MESOZOIC SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC, PART 2: ARC RIFT-QUENCHING (AR-Q)
  T164 Rift-Grabens, Volcano-Sedimentary Strata, Plutons, and Transtensional Shear Zones: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Reconstructing the Jurassic Cordilleran Margin of the Southwest U.S. (Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and Northern Mexico)
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 128AB, North Building
• ZIRCON HAFNIUM-OXYGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR LATE JURASSIC INTRA-ARC RIFTING OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA, CA, PART 1: ORIGIN OF ENRICHED MAFIC ARC MAGMAS
  T164 Rift-Grabens, Volcano-Sedimentary Strata, Plutons, and Transtensional Shear Zones: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Reconstructing the Jurassic Cordilleran Margin of the Southwest U.S. (Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and Northern Mexico)
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 128AB, North Building
• CLAST PROVENANCE, TEPHROCHRONOLOGY, AND DETRITAL ZIRCON DATING OF PLIOCENE FLUVIAL CONGLOMERATE, DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY, CA: IMPLICATIONS FOR EASTERN CALIFORNIA PALEOHYDROLOGY
  105 D9. Recent Advances in Geomorphology (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• ENHANCED GEOCHRONOLOGIC RECORD OF SYN-RIFT PLUTONISM AND VOLCANISM IN THE JURASSIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN ARC, SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS (CA)
  29 Recent Advances in Cordilleran Tectonic Evolution—1: Paleozoic to Mesozoic
  Thursday, 16 May 2019

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Room C123

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2018

• NEW ZIRCON U-PB AND (U-TH)/HE AGES OF MIOCENE RHYOLITE FROM THE KERN VOLCANIC FIELD; KERN PLATEAU, SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA
  189 D28. Petrology, Igneous (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• INSIGHTS INTO MIDDLE TO LATE JURASSIC MAGMATISM WITHIN THE SIERRA NEVADA ARC AS RECORDED BY TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS OF DETRITAL ZIRCON
  T89 Magmas Assemble! Petrologic, Geochemical, Chronologic, and Geophysical Insights into the Architecture and Timescales of Magmatic Systems
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 240-241
• IDENTIFICATION OF HUNTER MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH CLASTS IN THE FURNACE CREEK FORMATION, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
  3 Tectonics of the Death Valley Region II: A Tribute to Bennie Troxel and Lauren Wright
  Tuesday, 15 May 2018

  10:20 AM - 12:05 PM

  Canyon Room

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2017

• THE VIEW FROM THE FOREARC: A SURVEY OF SIERRA NEVADA MAGMATISM USING GREAT VALLEY DETRITAL ZIRCON TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY
  T337 Coupled Evolution of Magmatic and Sedimentary Systems
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Skagit 4
• DEEP CRUSTAL ASSIMILATION BY DEPLETED-MANTLE-DERIVED BASALTS MASQUERADING AS MELTING OF ENRICHED MANTLE: HF-O MODELING OF EASTERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC GABBROS
  274 D35. Petrology, Igneous (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• FLUID-MELT-MINERAL INCLUSION STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF INTERCUMULUS FLUIDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEER MOUNTAIN OLIVINE GABBRO, SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CALIFORNIA
  T255 Fluids and Melts in Geologic Systems (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF

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2016

• OLIVINE-PLAGIOCLASE-PYROXENE CUMULATES ASSOCIATED WITH THE HORNBLENDE-RICH SUMMIT GABBRO: EARLY STAGES OF DIFFERENTIATION WITHIN THE LATE JURASSIC SIERRA NEVADA ARC
  T257 Fifty Years of Innovation in Petrology and Orogenic Systems (Posters): A Tribute to Lincoln Hollister
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• USING ZIRCON TRACE ELEMENT SIGNATURES TO EVALUATE THE NATURE OF MIDDLE TO LATE JURASSIC MAGMATISM WITHIN THE SIERRA NEVADA ARC
  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
• ZIRCON TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION SPACE IN PLUTONIC AND VOLCANIC ARCS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ZIRCON PROVENANCE AND MAGMATIC ARC EVOLUTION
  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
• RECONSTRUCTING THE RECORD OF JURASSIC ARC MAGMATISM, KERN PLATEAU, SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA, CA
  25 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Ballroom C
• U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON COMPARISON OF WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA METAMORPHIC PENDANTS WITH THE GOLCONDA ALLOCHTHON: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRE-MESOZOIC ASSEMBLY OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  26 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Ballroom C
• OLIVINE-PLAGIOCLASE-PYROXENE CUMULATES ASSOCIATED WITH THE HORNBLENDE-RICH SUMMIT GABBRO: EARLY STAGES OF DIFFERENTIATION WITHIN THE LATE JURASSIC SIERRA NEVADA ARC
  25 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Ballroom C
• EVALUATING A POTENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS OSA CREEK RING COMPLEX AND THE BLACKROCK ANDESITE, SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA, CA
  17 Undergraduate Research Posters (Posters)
  Tuesday, 5 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  Ballroom C

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2015

• COMPARISON OF DETRITAL ZIRCON POPULATIONS OF THE GOLCONDA ALLOCHTHON (NORTHERN NEVADA) WITH METAMORPHIC PENDANTS IN THE WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS (CENTRAL CALIFORNIA)
  47 Tectonics/Tectonophysics (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• SEARCHING FOR MANTLE-DERIVED MAGMAS IN A GRANODIORITIC BATHOLITH: THE SUMMIT GABBRO AND ASSOCIATED PERIDOTITE OF THE KERN PLATEAU, SOUTHEASTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CALIFORNIA
  15 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Atrium/Hallway

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2014

• DETRITAL ZIRCON RECORD OF THE EARLY MESOZOIC SOUTHWESTERN SIERRA NEVADA ARC PRESERVED IN EARLY CRETACEOUS INTRA-ARC AND FOREARC DEPOSITS
  T213 Continental Arcs #3: Mapping the Temporal and Compositional Evolution of Subvolcanic Magmatic Systems (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• DETRITAL ZIRCON INVESTIGATION OF SEDIMENTARY LINKAGES BETWEEN MESOZOIC SEDIMENTS OF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIAN CORDILLERA AND SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIA
  14 Mesozoic Paleogeography of the North American Cordillera
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Procrastinator Theater

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2013

• DETRITAL ZIRCON EVIDENCE FOR LINKAGES BETWEEN MESOZOIC SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS ALONG THE WESTERN FLANK OF THE SIERRA NEVADA ARC
  29 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle
  Wednesday, 22 May 2013

  8:40 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon A1
• AGE, PROVENANCE, AND LATERAL VARIATION OF DETRITAL ZIRCON POPULATIONS IN THE PENINSULAR RANGES FOREARC BASIN, ORANGE COUNTY, CA
  29 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle
  Wednesday, 22 May 2013

  8:40 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon A1
• ZIRCON HAFNIUM AND OXYGEN ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF SIERRA NEVADA GABBROS: EVIDENCE FOR MAJOR COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION IN THE MESOZOIC MANTLE
  22 AFC Processes in the Formation of Intermediate Magmas from Mantle to Crust
  Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon D1

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2012

• DETRITAL ZIRCON INVESTIGATIONS OF EARLY CRETACEOUS SEDIMENT PROVENANCE AND TRANSPORT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIERRA NEVADA ARC, CA
  T155 Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries I: In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• HAFNIUM ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF ZIRCON FROM SIERRA NEVADA GABBROS: IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL MANTLE SOURCE REGION HETEROGENEITY
  T106 Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries (Posters): In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• AGE AND PROVENANCE OF THE OLDEST SEDIMENTS IN THE NORTHERN PENINSULAR RANGES FOREARC BASIN, ORANGE CO., CA
  T92 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B

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2011

• BRINGING TOGETHER DESIGN AND EVALUATION TO UNDERSTAND STUDENT LEARNING
  T114 What Are Undergraduates Learning in/from Our Programs? (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C

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2010

• REE-ISOTOPE STUDY OF MAFIC TO FELSIC DIFFERENTIATION, STOKES MOUNTAIN REGION, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  55 New Insights into the Petrology of Mesozoic Cordilleran Batholiths II
  Saturday, 29 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Platinum 2
• MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY OF THE POLYMETAMORPHIC KINGS SEQUENCE, LAKE KAWEAH PENDANT, WEST-CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  51 New Insights into the Petrology of Mesozoic Cordilleran Batholiths (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 May 2010

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• MAGMA DIFFERENTIATION AS RECORDED BY CHANGES IN MINERAL STRATIGRAPHY WITHIN LAYERED MAFIC CUMULATES (WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CALIFORNIA)
  51 New Insights into the Petrology of Mesozoic Cordilleran Batholiths (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 May 2010

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• GROUNDWATER MAPPING IN THE IRVINE SUB-BASIN, ORANGE CO., CA, USING STABLE ISOTOPE AND GENERAL MINERAL COMPOSITIONS
  52 Managing Groundwater in the Cordillera (Posters)
  Saturday, 29 May 2010

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6
• A GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND PROVENANCE STUDY OF THE GOLDSTEIN PEAK ROOF PENDANT, WEST-CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CALIFORNIA
  19 Detrital Zircon Studies in Western North America (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Platinum 5-6

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2008

• MAFIC ROOTS OF A SATELLITE CONE, EASTERN RING DIKE COMPLEX, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA, CA: EMPLACEMENT OF THE AUCKLAND GABBRO BY FORCEFUL INTRUSION ALONG AN EARLY CRETACEOUS UNCONFORMITY
  30 Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, and Volcanology (Posters)
  Friday, 21 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• ON-CAMPUS RECRUITMENT OF GEOLOGY MAJORS: DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVES TO PHYSICAL GEOLOGY AT A LARGE STATE UNIVERSITY
  T235 Building New and Rebuilding Defunct College and University Geoscience Programs for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities, Successes and Failures (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2005

• GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON EARLY CRETACEOUS DEPOSITION OF NONMARINE SEDIMENTS AND VOLCANICS, AND SYNPLUTONIC DEFORMATION, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  44 Ophiolites, Batholiths, and Regional Geology II: A Session in Honor of Cliff Hopson
  Sunday, 1 May 2005

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2003

• DEPOSITION, ERUPTION AND METAMORPHISM OF THE GOLDSTEIN PEAK PENDANT PROTOLITHS, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  45 Tectonics I: Cordilleran Terranes, Arc Tectonics
  Sunday, 2 November 2003

  1:00 PM - 3:45 PM

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2002

• STUDENTS TAKING OWNERSHIP OF IGNEOUS PETROLOGY: ACTIVE VOLCANOES WEB PAGE PROJECT ON WEBCT
  6 Innovations in Earth Science Education: Dorothy LaLonde Stout Memorial Session
  Monday, 13 May 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• STRATIGRAPHY OF THE GOLDSTEIN PEAK PENDANT, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  14 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 13 May 2002

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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• A MINERALOGICAL STUDY OF THE CONSOLIDATED TUNGSTEN MINE SKARN, TULARE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
  232 Petrology, Metamorphic (Posters)
• PETROGENESIS OF AMPHIBOLITES, GOLDSTEIN PEAK PENDANT, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  152 Petrology, Igneous (Posters)
• MINERALOGIC AND 40AR/39AR ANALYSIS OF LAYERED MAFIC CUMULATES, WESTERN SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, CA
  152 Petrology, Igneous (Posters)