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Activity

2025

• PROVENANCE OF CLASTIC ROCKS OF THE INNER HORNSUND TROUGH, SVALBARD: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGIONAL CORRELATIONS AND DEVONIAN PALEOGEOGRAPHY
  33 Cordilleran and Other Orogenic Belt Evolution from Components to Whole (Posters)
  Friday, 4 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  Sierra Ballroom
• UNDERSTANDING FRANCISCAN COMPLEX SUBDUCTION ZONE RECYCLING VIA MICRO-SAMPLED GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM JENNER BEACH, CALIFORNIA
  33 Cordilleran and Other Orogenic Belt Evolution from Components to Whole (Posters)
  Friday, 4 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  Sierra Ballroom
• ONSET OF SUBDUCTION ACCRETION IN THE FRANCISCAN COMPLEX VARIES ALONG STRIKE: NEW U-Pb DETRITAL ZIRCON INSIGHTS FROM THE SKAGGS SPRINGS AND GOAT MOUNTAIN SCHISTS
  15 Cordilleran and Other Orogenic Belt Evolution from Components to Whole
  Thursday, 3 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Balboa/Calaveras
• THERMOCHRONOLOGIC AND FAULT KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE EASTERN CALIFORNIA SHEAR ZONE IN SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA
  23 Cordilleran Tectonics: Integrating Field and Analytical Approaches I (Posters)
  Thursday, 3 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  River/City View

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2024

• IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC CHRONOLOGY OF SALINIAN ARC MIDDLE TO LOWER CRUST, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST
  T57 New Advances and Applications of CA-TIMS U/Pb Geochronology and CA Method in the Earth Sciences: A Session in Honor of James Mattinson
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  212B

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2023

• CORRELATION, PROVENANCE, AND ACCRETIONARY HISTORY OF FRANCISCAN AND RELATED UNITS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN OREGON
  15 From High Grade to Low Grade: Honoring the Contributions of J. Douglas Yule Towards Understanding the Growth and Active Deformation of Western North America
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 2
• ZIRCON AND APATITE (U-TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOLOGY REQUIRES TWO-STAGE (EARLY CRETACEOUS AND MIOCENE) UPLIFT OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS PROVINCE (SOUTHERN OREGON-NORTHERN CALIFORNIA)
  15 From High Grade to Low Grade: Honoring the Contributions of J. Douglas Yule Towards Understanding the Growth and Active Deformation of Western North America
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 2
• DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES FROM UPPER CRETACEOUS–PALEOGENE FOREARC AND SUBDUCTION-ZONE STRATA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ENVIRONS COMPARED TO CORDILLERAN IGNEOUS BASEMENT AGES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDE TECTONICS
  18 Late Jurassic to Eocene Tectonics of the North America Cordillera: Evolving and Emerging Models (Posters)
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Cargo Room

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2022

• ZIRCON (U-TH)/HE CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXHUMATION OF THE PELONA-OROCOPIA-RAND SCHIST AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LATE CRETACEOUS TO NEOGENE TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT OF SW NORTH AMERICA
  T163 Advances and Applications of Thermochronology in Tectonic, Magmatic, Basin, and Geomorphic Studies (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• RAMAN THERMOMETRY AND (U‐TH)/HE THERMOCHRONOMETRY REVEAL NEOGENE TRANSPRESSIONAL EXHUMATION IN THE NACIMIENTO BLOCK OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  T74 Advances and Applications of Thermochronology in Tectonic, Magmatic, Basin, and Geomorphic Studies I
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  601

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2021

• ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE CONDREY MOUNTAIN SCHIST (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA-SOUTHERN OREGON) REVEALS A PREVIOUSLY UNDOCUMENTED EARLY CRETACEOUS CORDILLERAN SHALLOW/FLAT-SUBDUCTION EPISODE
  T194 Insights into Cordilleran Tectonics and Magmatism from the Sedimentary Record (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  2:30 PM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTERN BAJA TERRANE: CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF MESOZOIC SUBDUCTION AND ACCRETION IN BAJA CALIFORNIA
  T162 Initiation and Evolution of Arc-Forearc Systems in Cascadia and Beyond (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• A CRUCIAL GEOLOGIC TEST OF LATE JURASSIC EXOTIC COLLISION VERSUS ENDEMIC RE-ACCRETION IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS PROVINCE, WESTERN UNITED STATES, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
  T143 Insights into Cordilleran Tectonics and Magmatism from the Sedimentary Record
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 255 (Hybrid Room)
• DATING FARALLON SHALLOW-ANGLE SUBDUCTION: CONSTRAINING THE AGE USING U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE SCHIST OF SIERRA DE SALINAS
  T66 The 100-Ma Event on the Western Margin of North America
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107–A109
• RAMAN THERMOMETRY REVEALS UNSUSPECTED TRANSPRESSIONAL VERTICAL UPLIFT IN THE NACIMIENTO BLOCK OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  T6 Feedbacks between Upper-Plate Deformation, Accretion and Alteration and Plate Boundary Processes in Subduction Systems
  Sunday, 10 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  B111
• ZIRCON PETROCHRONOLOGY OF SALINIAN ARC MIDDLE CRUST, EASTERN SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAIN, CALIFORNIA
  1 Chemical and Thermal Changes in Cordilleran Arc Systems: Insights from the Metamorphic Record
  Wednesday, 12 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  UNR Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering Room

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2020

• A DEEP GLIMPSE INTO THE PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH: ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY AND HF ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS FROM GRANULITE XENOLITHS OF THE SAN QUINTIN VOLCANIC FIELD, BAJA CALIFORNIA
  31 Petrology, Geochemistry, and Structure of Cordilleran Batholiths through Space and Time
  Thursday, 14 May 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Plaza Room
• ZIRCON PETROCHRONOLOGY OF SALINIAN ARC MIDDLE CRUST, EASTERN SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAIN, CALIFORNIA
  24 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 13 May 2020

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Fountain Ballroom
• HISTORY OF EXHUMATION AND RELATED STRUCTURAL RELIEF GENERATION FOR THE SOUTHERNMOST SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH, AND TECTONIC FORCING INTERPRETATIONS
  2 Exhumation and Uplift of the Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  Tuesday, 12 May 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Plaza Room

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2019

• FATE OF THE LOWER LITHOSPHERE DURING SHALLOW-ANGLE SUBDUCTION: THE LARAMIDE EXAMPLE
  T129 Late Cretaceous to Early Paleogene Tectonic Development of the North American Cordillera (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB DATA REVEAL A MISSISSIPPIAN SEDIMENT DISPERSAL NETWORK ORIGINATING IN THE APPALACHIAN OROGEN, TRAVERSING NORTH AMERICA ALONG ITS SOUTHERN SHELF, AND REACHING AS FAR AS THE SOUTHWEST USA
  T43 Laurentian Evolution during the Late Mississippian to Early Permian: Interactions and Feedbacks between Tectonism, Climate, and Sedimentary Systems (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC CHRONOLOGY OF SALINIAN ARC LOWER ARC CRUST, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST
  18 Tectonic Processes in Cordilleran Arcs
  Thursday, 16 May 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room C125-126
• FATE OF CONTINENTAL LOWER CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE DURING SHALLOW-ANGLE SUBDUCTION: THE LARAMIDE EXAMPLE
  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
• U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PALEOZOIC CLASTICS OF THE OZARK PLATEAU: IMPLICATION FOR SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS AND FAR-FIELD TECTONICS
  12 D4. Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
  Tuesday, 26 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Kings Room

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2018

• ROOTING AROUND BENEATH AN ARC: ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND HF ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE BASE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH
  T41 Magmas Assemble! Petrologic, Geochemical, Chronologic, and Geophysical Insights into the Architecture and Timescales of Magmatic Systems (Posters)
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• GEOCHRONOLOGIC, THERMOBAROMETRIC, AND ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SALINIAN BLOCK
  72 D6. Structural Geology (Posters)
  Thursday, 17 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• LATE CRETACEOUS–PALEOGENE TECTONIC AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BASED ON DETRITAL ZIRCON FROM THE FOREARC BASIN, PELONA-OROCOPIA-RAND SCHISTS, AND FRANCISCAN COMPLEX
  54 Jurassic to Cenozoic Geology of Southern California, Southwest Arizona, and Sonora I: A Session Honoring Gordon Haxel and Carl Jacobson
  Thursday, 17 May 2018

  8:20 AM - 10:05 AM

  Canyon Room
• PRESSURE-TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION OF LOWER CRUSTAL-UPPER MANTLE XENOLITHS FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAU TRANSITION ZONE
  31 Geologic and Structural Evolution of the Transition Zone
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  10:20 AM - 12:20 PM

  Humphreys/Mt. Elden Room
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF BLUESCHIST FACIES SEQUENCES IN THE ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX OF WEST-CENTRAL BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
  34 Recent Advances in Understanding the Geology of Northwestern Mexico (Posters)
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• ROOTING AROUND BENEATH AN ARC: ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND HF ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE BASE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH
  39 Plate Margin Processes and Tectonics during the Cretaceous, Western North America (Posters)
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents
• GEOLOGIC MAP AND STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF THE SUR–NACIMIENTO FAULT ZONE, MCWAY FALLS TO GAMBOA POINT, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST
  10 Jurassic to Cenozoic Geology of Southern California, Southwest Arizona, and Sonora: A Session Honoring Gordon Haxel and Carl Jacobson (Posters)
  Tuesday, 15 May 2018

  8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

  Outdoor Tents

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2017

• AGE CONSTRAINTS AND CORRELATION OF “SUR SERIES” METASEDIMENTARY FRAMEWORK ROCKS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE SALINIAN TERRANE, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  T389 New Perspectives on Cordilleran Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Metallogeny (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL ANDEAN PLATEAU AND GEODYNAMIC IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GROWTH OF PLATEAUS
  T214 Challenges in Tectonics: Dynamic Interactions among Earth-Surface Processes, Landscape Evolution, and Tectonics I
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 4
• THE PELONA–OROCOPIA–RAND AND RELATED SCHISTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A REVIEW OF THE BEST-KNOWN ARCHIVE OF SHALLOW-ANGLE SUBDUCTION ON THE PLANET
  T140 The Dance of Arcs: Causes of Arc Migrations, Flare-Ups, and Magmatic Focusing II
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Skagit 4
• TECTONIC TRAUMA AND HEALING OF SUB-CONTINENTAL MANTLE LITHOSPHERE BENEATH THE SW NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA: INSIGHTS FROM U-PB ZIRCON AND SM-ND GARNET AGES FROM COLORADO PLATEAU TRANSITION ZONE XENOLITHS
  T57 Origin, Accretion, and Translation of Mesozoic-Cenozoic Terranes along the Pacific Margin of North America
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 4
• NEW CONSTRAINTS ON MODELS FOR FOREARC SHORTENING ALONG THE SUR–NACIMIENTO FAULT, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST
  T57 Origin, Accretion, and Translation of Mesozoic-Cenozoic Terranes along the Pacific Margin of North America
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 4
• NATIVE MESOZOIC SIERRA NEVADA ARC INDICATED BY DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF PREBATHOLITHIC FRAMEWORK AND INTRA-ARC STRATA
  T57 Origin, Accretion, and Translation of Mesozoic-Cenozoic Terranes along the Pacific Margin of North America
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 4
• U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND HF ISOTOPIC SYSTEMATICS OF METAMORPHIC AND DETRITAL ZIRCON DOMAINS IN THE SCHIST OF SIERRA DE SALINAS, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST RANGES
  29 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States (Posters)
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  Room 323A/B/C
• PRESERVATION OF A SUBDUCTION-RELATED GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT IN THE SCHIST OF SIERRA DE SALINAS, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST RANGES
  21 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 11:50 AM

  Room 325A
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE CONDREY MOUNTAIN SCHIST (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/SOUTHERN OREGON) REVEALS A ~30 MILLION YEAR RECORD OF SUBDUCTION-RELATED UNDERPLATING
  29 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States (Posters)
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  Room 323A/B/C
• INVERTED METAMORPHISM OF THE CONDREY MOUNTAIN SCHIST (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/SOUTHERN OREGON): A ~30 MYR RECORD OF SUBDUCTION INITIATION AND MATURATION BENEATH A COOLING UPPER PLATE
  29 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States (Posters)
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  Room 323A/B/C
• INSIGHT ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SUR SERIES WITHIN THE SALINIAN TERRANE, CALIFORNIA EVALUATED THROUGH PETROGRAPHY, ZIRCON LA-ICPMS U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND HF ISOTOPES
  29 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States (Posters)
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  Room 323A/B/C
• DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY PROVIDES CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEPOSITIONAL AGE OF SUR SERIES METASEDIMENTS WITHIN THE SALINIAN TERRANE, CALIFORNIA
  29 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United States (Posters)
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

  Room 323A/B/C

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2016

• SEARCH FOR THE LOST ARC: A U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIC AND ISOTOPIC STUDY OF THE LAS TABLAS UNIT, FRANCISCAN COMPLEX OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  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
• LATE CRETACEOUS TECTONIC DISPLACEMENT OF SUB-CONTINENTAL MANTLE LITHOSPHERE BENEATH THE SW U.S. CORDILLERA: MANTLE XENOLITH CONSTRAINTS FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAU TRANSITION ZONE (CENTRAL ARIZONA)
  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
• DETRITAL ZIRCON EVIDENCE FOR LATE ORDOVICIAN UPLIFT, PALEOKARSTING, AND DRAINAGE REORGANIZATION IN THE OZARK DOME AND VICINITY, SOUTH-CENTRAL MISSOURI
  T169 Detrital Zircons on the North American Continental Interior (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE WARRENSBURG-MOBERLY CHANNEL SANDSTONE, CENTRAL MISSOURI: A PALEORIVER THAT CONNECTED THE APPALACHIAN OROGEN TO GRAND CANYON AND ADJACENT DEPOCENTERS?
  T52 Detrital Zircons on the North American Continental Interior I
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 402
• EVALUATING DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE OF PRE-MESOZOIC STRATA IN THE SIERRA NEVADA, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  26 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Ballroom C

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2015

• ASSEMBLING THE WORLD’S TYPE SHALLOW SUBDUCTION COMPLEX: DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE NACIMIENTO BLOCK, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST RANGES
  T149 Bridging Two Continents: Comparative Studies of Accretionary Orogenesis in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, North American Cordillera, and Other Orogenic Belts II
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 349/350
• THE ORIGIN OF THE NACIMIENTO BLOCK: A GEO-/THERMOCHRONOLOGIC ANALYSIS
  T149 Bridging Two Continents: Comparative Studies of Accretionary Orogenesis in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, North American Cordillera, and Other Orogenic Belts II
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 349/350
• STRUCTURAL AND U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGIN OF THE CONDREY MOUNTAIN SCHIST, CALIFORNIA - OREGON
  T48 Bridging Two Continents (Posters): Comparative Studies of Accretionary Orogenesis in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, North American Cordillera, and Other Orogenic Belts
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall