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Activity

2025

• HOT OROGENIC HINTERLAND CRUST DECOUPLED FROM BASAL TRACTIONS: A COMPARISON OF FLAT SLAB AND UNDERTHRUSTING EXAMPLES IN THE NORTH AMERICAN LARAMIDE, SOUTHEAST CHINA, AND SOUTHERN TIBET
  15 Cordilleran and Other Orogenic Belt Evolution from Components to Whole
  Thursday, 3 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Balboa/Calaveras

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2024

• IMPLICATIONS OF ELASTIC GEOBAROMETRY PRESSURES FROM THE WESTERN US CORDILLERA
  T220 Thermal and Rheological Controls on the Development of Orogenic Belts
  Tuesday, 24 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  304C
• DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND INTERMEDIATE-SCALE MAP COMPILATION OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, NORTHEAST NEVADA, YIELD INSIGHTS INTO MESOZOIC CONTRACTION AND CENOZOIC EXTENSION IN THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA
  T105 Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• PALEOGENE TECTONISM IN NORTHERN TIBET CONTRIBUTED TO THE RETREAT OF PROTO-PARATETHYS SEA IN CENTRAL ASIA
  T95 Harmony and Discord: Exploring the Interplay of Climate and Tectonics in Central Asia
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304A
• EOCENE DEFORMATION IN THE NORTHERN COLORADO RIVER EXTENSIONAL CORRIDOR ASSOCIATED WITH LARAMIDE CRUSTAL DUPLEXING
  T144 Structurally Controlled Systems: Using Field, Analytical, and Modeling Approaches to Unravel Upper Crustal and Surface Processes in Contractional, Extensional, and Strike-Slip Orogens
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• INVESTIGATING THE DEFORMATION TIMING AND KINEMATICS OF THE MYLONITIC SHEAR ZONE IN THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  T117 Innovative Ideas in Tectonics of Earth and Other Planetary Bodies: a Session in Memory of An Yin (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• CENOZOIC STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK AND CRUSTAL SHORTENING OF THE TETHYAN HIMALAYA, HIMACHAL PRADESH, NORTHWESTERN INDIA
  T117 Innovative Ideas in Tectonics of Earth and Other Planetary Bodies: a Session in Memory of An Yin (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• PRELIMINARY 1:200,000 SCALE GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BHABA PASS-PIN VALLEY REGION, HIMACHAL HIMALAYA, NW INDIA
  T118 Best Student Geologic Map Competition (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• PLAYING WITH SAND AND PLAY DOH: USING SIMPLE ANALOG MODELS TO INVESTIGATE TECTONICS ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETARY BODIES
  T22 Innovative Ideas in Tectonics of Earth and Other Planetary Bodies I: a Session in Memory of An Yin
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304C
• WAS THE BASAL TETHYAN HIMALAYA DEEPLY BURIED? INSIGHTS FROM THE HIMACHAL HIMALAYA, NW INDIA, IN INVESTIGATING NON-LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE VERSUS PRE-HIMALAYAN METAMORPHISM
  T70 Innovative Ideas in Tectonics of Earth and Other Planetary Bodies II: a Session in Memory of An Yin
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  304C
• RECONCILING NORTH AMERICAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX FORMATION MODELS WITH COUPLED MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND APATITE U-Pb PETROCHRONOLOGY IN THE CHEMEHUEVI MOUNTAINS, CA, USA
  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
• RECONSTRUCTING THERMOBAROMETRIC GRADIENTS IN THE NORTHWESTERN TETHYAN HIMALAYA: TESTING THE LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE PARADIGM
  5 D1. General Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 17 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom

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2023

• RECONSTRUCTING THE ELUSIVE TETHYAN HIMALAYA THRUST BELT BY EXAMINING THE ALONG-STRIKE THERMAL STRUCTURE IN THE HIMACHAL HIMALAYA, NW INDIA
  T248 Convergent Margin Systems (Posters)
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• EXPLORING THE 3-D THERMAL STRUCTURE AND RHEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA: CONSTRAINTS FROM INTEGRATED HEATFLOW AND SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS
  T249 Deformation in Continental Interiors from the Rock Record to Modern Intraplate Seismicity (Posters)
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• ALONG-STRIKE THERMOBAROMETRIC DISCREPANCY IN THE NORTHWESTERN TETHYAN HIMALAYA
  T248 Convergent Margin Systems (Posters)
  Wednesday, 18 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD (DONATH MEDAL): DECIPHERING INTRACONTINENTAL DEFORMATION THROUGH FIELD-BASED INVESTIGATIONS
  T90 Deformation in Continental Interiors from the Rock Record to Modern Intraplate Seismicity
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  326
• THE EXCEPTIONALLY HOT LATE CRETACEOUS NEVADAPLANO OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA PROMOTED LOWER CRUST MOBILITY AND DECOUPLING DURING THE LARAMIDE
  T90 Deformation in Continental Interiors from the Rock Record to Modern Intraplate Seismicity
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  326
• DETRITAL SANIDINE POPULATIONS INDICATE PROBABLE MIDDLE MIOCENE EXTENSION, UPLIFT, AND EXPOSURE OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, NORTHEAST NEVADA, USA
  T20 Maximum Depositional Ages (MDAs) from Detrital Mineral Geochronology: Recent Advances in Sampling, Experimental Designs, Interpretive Tacts, and Chronostratigraphic Applications
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  320
• CENOZOIC CRUSTAL THICKENING ACROSS THE INDUS-YARLUNG SUTURE ZONE IN THE EASTERNMOST HIMALAYAN OROGEN
  T68 Convergent Margin Systems
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  326
• HETEROGENEOUS MIOCENE EXTENSION IN THE BASIN AND RANGE DEMONSTRATES VERTICALLY DECOUPLED EXTENSION WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR PRE-EXTENSIONAL CRUSTAL THICKNESS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE WESTERN BASIN AND RANGE
  32 At the Crossroads—Addressing Geological Questions and Complexities Near the Boundary of the Basin & Range, Cascadia, and/or Sierra Nevada Provinces (Posters)
  Friday, 19 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Cargo Room
• CHARACTERIZING THE WALLROCK STRAIN AND KINEMATIC VORTICITY OF HOT RISING BODIES, FROM THE PAPOOSE FLAT PLUTON TO METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  19 Strike-Slip Faulting, Flower Structures, Plutons, and Tiltmeters: A Tribute to the Career of Arthur Sylvester (Posters)
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Cargo Room
• HOT CORDILLERAN HINTERLAND PROMOTED LOWER CRUST MOBILITY AND DECOUPLING OF LARAMIDE DEFORMATION
  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
• USING DETRITAL SANIDINES TO DECIPHER MAJOR TECTONIC EVENTS: MIDDLE MIOCENE(?) UPLIFT AND EXPOSURE OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX
  24 D1. Evaluating Linkages Between Volcanic, Sedimentary and Tectonic Processes
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 2
• MIDDLE MIOCENE EXHUMATION OF THE AVAWATZ MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A TERMINATION THRUST BELT AT THE EASTERN TIP OF THE GARLOCK FAULT
  11 Strike-Slip Faulting, Flower Structures, Plutons, and Tiltmeters II: A Tribute to the Career of Arthur Sylvester
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• TESTING DEEP BURIAL OF THE RUBY MOUNTAIN-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, NORTHEAST NEVADA, VIA STRUCTURAL AND THERMAL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE ADJACENT RANGES
  T276 New Insights into the Evolution and Geodynamics of Metamorphic Core Complexes in North America and Around the World (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• LATE CENOZOIC EXHUMATION OF THE AVAWATZ MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INITIATION OF THE GARLOCK FAULT
  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
• EXPLORING KINEMATIC VORTICITY FROM METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES IN THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA
  T77 Deformation Zones in Time and Space I: A Celebration of the Career of Steven Wojtal
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207
• QUATERNARY SURFICIAL GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DRY MOUNTAIN NORMAL FAULT, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  T93 Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• HETEROGENOUS LATE MIOCENE EXTENSION IN THE WESTERN BASIN AND RANGE DEMONSTRATES VERTICALLY DECOUPLED CRUSTAL EXTENSION
  T66 Cenozoic Tectonism, Magmatism, Sedimentation, and Landscape Evolution in the Intermountain West (Posters)
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• DECIPHERING THE CENOZOIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUBY-EAST HUMBOLDT METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX USING MONAZITE, TITANITE AND ALLANITE PETROCHRONOLOGY
  12 Directly Dating Deformation, Metamorphism, and Metasomatism through Petrochronology II
  Tuesday, 15 March 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  CBC-A 112

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2021

• CENOZOIC SLIP HISTORIES OF THE TIDDING AND LOHIT THRUSTS IN THE NORTHERN INDO-BURMA RANGES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL THICKENING AND EXHUMATION OF GANGDESE LOWER ARC CRUST ALONG THE INDIA-ASIA SUTURE ZONE
  T165 Structural Geology and Tectonics Division 40th Anniversary Symposium: Drivers of Orogenesis (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 October 2021

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 257 (Hybrid Room)
• DECIPHERING THE POLYPHASE HISTORY OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX: A DYNAMIC COMPETITION BETWEEN PLATE-BOUNDARY FORCES, GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY, AND THERMAL INSTABILITIES
  T96 Cenozoic Tectonism, Magmatism, Sedimentation, and Landscape Evolution in the Intermountain West (Posters)
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall A
• GENERAL SHEAR STRAIN IN THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX
  15 The Kinematics, Dynamics, and Surface Expression of Faults within the Walker Lane–Eastern California Shear Zone, Nevada and Eastern California: Improving Hazard Forecasts and Long-Term Slip Histories
  Friday, 14 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  UNR Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering Room
• THERMOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS-EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE MYLONITIC SHEAR ZONE
  15 The Kinematics, Dynamics, and Surface Expression of Faults within the Walker Lane–Eastern California Shear Zone, Nevada and Eastern California: Improving Hazard Forecasts and Long-Term Slip Histories
  Friday, 14 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  UNR Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering Room
• DEFINING A BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION ACROSS AN EXHUMED CRUSTAL SECTION: GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND MICROSTRUCTURES ACROSS THE IRETEBA PLUTON IN THE SOUTHERN BASIN AND RANGE
  15 The Kinematics, Dynamics, and Surface Expression of Faults within the Walker Lane–Eastern California Shear Zone, Nevada and Eastern California: Improving Hazard Forecasts and Long-Term Slip Histories
  Friday, 14 May 2021

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  UNR Dept of Geological Sciences & Engineering Room