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Activity

2025

• A (PLAGIOCLASE) FRAMEWORK FOR GRANITE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE ALTA STOCK, UTAH
  39 Extending the Rocky Mountains: Tectonics, Basin Evolution, and Magmatism of Continental Rifting
  Tuesday, 20 May 2025

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Cascade C

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2023

• TITANITE ZONATION RECORDS MAGMATIC TO AUTOMETAMORPHIC TRANSITION IN THE LITTLE COTTONWOOD STOCK, UTAH
  2 Strike-Slip Faulting, Flower Structures, Plutons, and Tiltmeters I: A Tribute to the Career of Arthur Sylvester
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1
• PLUTONS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE
  2 Strike-Slip Faulting, Flower Structures, Plutons, and Tiltmeters I: A Tribute to the Career of Arthur Sylvester
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• GRANITES ARE UPPER GREENSCHIST FACIES ROCKS
  33 Advances in Understanding Arc Magmatism in the Southwestern Cordillera I
  Thursday, 17 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 108

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2021

• MODERN DEFORMATION AND VOLCANISM IN OWENS VALLEY REACTIVATES A LARAMIDE-AGE SHEAR ZONE
  16 Geology and Geophysics of the Coso Geothermal Field and Source Areas of the 2019 Ridgecrest and 2020 Lone Pine Earthquake Sequences: A Tribute to the Career of Francis C. (“Frank”) Monastero
  Friday, 14 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  JohnNLouie.com Room
• FIELD TESTS OF COLOR INDEX DETERMINATION IN PLUTONS WITH THE STRABOTOOLS MOBILE APP
  8 Understanding the Sierra Nevada Through New Regional Geologic and Geophysical Syntheses II
  Thursday, 13 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  UNR Centers for Transformative Monitoring Programs (CTEMPS) Room

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2020

• MODERN DEFORMATION AND VOLCANISM IN OWENS VALLEY REACTIVATES A LARAMIDE-AGE SHEAR ZONE
  32 Geology and Geophysics of the Coso Geothermal Field and Source Area of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence II: A Tribute to the Career of Francis C. (“Frank”) Monastero
  Thursday, 14 May 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Madera Room
• THE ROCKS DON’T LIE, BUT PLUTONS SPEAK A LANGUAGE THAT IS EASY TO MISINTERPRET
  31 Petrology, Geochemistry, and Structure of Cordilleran Batholiths through Space and Time
  Thursday, 14 May 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Plaza Room
• THE GRANITE AQUEDUCT AND AUTOMETAMORPHISM OF PLUTONS
  3 Metamorphic Processes in Cordilleran Arc Systems
  Tuesday, 12 May 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Madera Room

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2019

• PLUTONIC CATASTROPHES
  T241 Subduction Zone Magmatism from Source to Eruption, in the Lab and in the Field: In Honor of Christy Till, GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division Early Career Awardee
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 131ABC, North Building
• THE PATH FROM A BIG TANK OF MAGMA TO SLOW INCREMENTAL GROWTH OF A PLUTON
  T95 Great Concepts and Controversies in Geosciences Since Steno’s Introduction of the Principles of Stratigraphy in 1669
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 106BC, West Building
• LADDER STRUCTURES IN THE CATHEDRAL PEAK GRANODIORITE, YOSEMITE: TWO-PHASE FLOW IN FINGERED DIKES?
  T136 Reading Igneous Textures
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• RECRYSTALLIZATION OF APLITE—A FEATURE, NOT A BUG
  30 Crystal Windows into Igneous Processes II
  Thursday, 16 May 2019

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Room C124

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2018

• ARE PLUTONS IGNEOUS OR METAMORPHIC ROCKS? YES. THEY ARE MELTAMORPHIC
  276 D55. From Argon to Zircon: New Approaches to Understanding Crustal Magmatism
  Wednesday, 7 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 240-241
• EARLY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OUTREACH, CAREER TRAINING, AND NEAR-PEER MENTORING AT THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEVEL
  T132 Beyond the Numbers: Strategies for Inclusive Education Practices across the Geological Sciences I
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 234
• WHY IS HALF DOME THERE? TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT OF LITHOLOGIC VARIATION IN THE HALF DOME GRANODIORITE, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
  36 D2. Geology of the Sierra Nevada (Posters)
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• THE SHAPE OF HALF DOME: 3D STUDIES OF MORPHOLOGY AND DIKING
  36 D2. Geology of the Sierra Nevada (Posters)
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• A GEOLOGIST-CLIMBER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE MANY FACES OF HALF DOME, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
  36 D2. Geology of the Sierra Nevada (Posters)
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents

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2017

• PROLONGED MAGMATISM WITHIN THE LITTLE COTTONWOOD STOCK: A LIKELY SOURCE OF HEAT AND FLUIDS FOR (RE)CRYSTALLIZATION WITHIN THE ALTA STOCK, WASATCH MOUNTAINS, UTAH, U.S.A
  T255 Fluids and Melts in Geologic Systems (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• MELTAMORPHISM
  T176 Petrochronology: Advances and Applications to Petrogenesis and Tectonics (Posters)
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• EVOLVING PERSPECTIVES ON THE THERMAL BUDGETS AND TIMESCALES OF CONTACT METAMORPHISM
  T106 Celebrating Dr. John W. Valley's Contributions to Isotope Geochemistry and Beyond, from the Hadean to the Holocene I
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Skagit 2
• U/TH-PB MONAZITE AGE CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING AND DURATION OF CONTACT METAMORPHISM IN THE ALTA, UTAH, CONTACT AUREOLE
  T106 Celebrating Dr. John W. Valley's Contributions to Isotope Geochemistry and Beyond, from the Hadean to the Holocene I
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Skagit 2
• DIKING, DEFORMATION, AND DILEMMAS ALONG LYELL FORK IN THE HALF DOME GRANODIORITE, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
  21 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 11:50 AM

  Room 325A

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2016

• LAYERING IN THE TUOLUMNE INTRUSIVE SUITE FORMED BY LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY
  25 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Ballroom C

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2015

• TEN MILLION YEARS OF FLUID FLOW THROUGH THE ALTA STOCK DRIVEN BY INCREMENTAL EMPLACEMENT OF THE LITTLE COTTONWOOD STOCK, WASATCH, UTAH
  T227 A Matter of Perspective: Integrating Macro- and Micro-Scale Evidence in Investigations of Magmatic Origins and Histories (Posters)
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2013

• CHEMICAL DIVERGENCE BETWEEN VOLCANIC AND PLUTONIC ROCKS PRODUCED BY INFILTRATION AND RECRYSTALLIZATION OF APLITIC LIQUIDS
  T119 What Can We Learn About Plutons From Volcanic Rocks and What Can We Learn About Volcanoes From Plutonic Rocks?
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 603
• QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF THE PROPOSED ANALOGY BETWEEN LARGE-SCALE MARTIAN POLYGONAL TERRAIN AND TERRESTRIAL POLYGONAL FAULT SYSTEMS
  T225 Geologic Mapping of Planetary Bodies across the Solar System (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• 3D ANALYSIS OF A MULTIPLE DIKE INTRUSION AND LATER DEFORMATION, INDEPENDENCE DIKE SWARM, CALIFORNIA
  T254 Magma Transport, Emplacement, and Accommodation: Morphology, Mechanisms, and Models (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• RECONCILING INCREMENTAL EMPLACEMENT AND WIDESPREAD DEFORMATION WITH THE APPARENT HOMOGENEITY AND ISOTROPY OF PLUTONIC ROCKS
  T86 Magma Transport, Emplacement, and Accommodation: Morphology, Mechanisms, and Models
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 506
• EVIDENCE FOR LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY IN LADDER DIKES AND LAYERED GRANODIORITES, SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA
  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
• GEOMETRY AND EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM OF LADDER DIKES IN THE CATHEDRAL PEAK GRANODIORITE, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
  8 Plutons: Evolution, Emplacement, and Deformation (Posters)
  Monday, 20 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C

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2012

• NEW INSIGHTS INTO MIGRATION OF THE CRETACEOUS SIERRAN ARC USING HIGH-PRECISION U/PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY
  T206 Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries II: In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208A
• BULK MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AS A PROXY FOR COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION IN PLUTONIC ROCKS: MAGMA MIXING CAN BE A PROBLEM
  T92 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• LADDER DIKES, CRAZY GEOCHEMISTRY, AND LIQUID IMMISCIBILITY(?) IN OTHERWISE SANE GRANODIORITES
  18 Silicic Volcanism I
  Friday, 30 March 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:50 PM

  Juarez 3

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2010

• THE ROOM NON-PROBLEM
  10 Debating the Connections Between the Plutonic and Volcanic Rock Record
  Thursday, 27 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Platinum 2

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2009

• COALESCENCE OF SLIPPED JOINTS IN GRANITIC PLUTONS TO FORM THE WEST PINNACLE FAULT, SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA
  173 Structural Geology: Advances in Understanding Deformational Processes Ancient and Modern (Posters)
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• LADDER DIKES IN THE CATHEDRAL PEAK GRANODIORITE: MIGRATING FINGERED DIKES?
  T16 Pluton Assembly: Duration, Mechanisms, and Structural Controls
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A105
• TITANIQ, CATHODOLUMINESCENCE AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF THE ALTA STOCK, UT: GEOCHEMICAL INSIGHTS INTO PLUTON ASSEMBLY
  T16 Pluton Assembly: Duration, Mechanisms, and Structural Controls
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A105

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2008

• Rhyolites and Rhyolites
  T236 Evolution of Simple Granite Systems (Haplogranites) and Rhyolites: A 50th Anniversary Perspective of the Tuttle and Bowen Studies
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Rapid Emplacement of the Mcdoogle Pluton into the Sawmill Lake Shear Zone, Sierra Nevada, California
  161 Structural Geology / Tectonics / Neotectonics/Paleoseismology I
  Sunday, 5 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 4:45 PM
• ASSEMBLY OF THE INCREMENTALLY EMPLACED MCDOOGLE PLUTON, CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA, CA
  30 Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, and Volcanology (Posters)
  Friday, 21 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• RETHINKING HOW WE MAP AND DATE PLUTONS: JOHN MUIR INTRUSIVE SUITE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH
  14 Mafic-Silicic Magmatism: Crystallization Histories, Magma Interactions, and Eruption Mechanisms I
  Thursday, 20 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
• FIELD AND PETROFABRIC RELATIONS OF THE LONG LAKE SHEAR ZONE AND THE TREASURE LAKES PHASE, LAMARCK GRANODIORITE, CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA
  10 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2007

• ANATOMY OF THE LITTLE COTTONWOOD STOCK, WASATCH MOUNTAINS
  2 Shallow Level Magma Emplacement and Associated Extrusive Deposits
  Monday, 7 May 2007

  8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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2005

• NO BIG TANK: SLOW INCREMENTAL GROWTH OF PLUTONS BY MAGMATIC CRACK-SEAL
  137 Research Opportunities, New Frontiers, and the Questioning of Paradigms in Structural Geology and Tectonics: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the SGT Division
  Tuesday, 18 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• INTERACTION OF TECTONIC AND IGNEOUS PROCESSES AT THE WEST-TRENDING VOLCANIC BELTS OF THE GREAT BASIN
  T24 Geology and EarthScope
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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• PLUTON EMPLACEMENT PROCESSES INFERRED FROM GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE SPLIT MOUNTAIN ROOF PENDANT, SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH
  231 Petrology, Igneous (Posters)