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Activity

2024

• INTRUSIONS REVEALED BY A NEW EARTH MRI AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY IN SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO
  T1 Linking Mineral Resources and Their Geologic Framework I: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Critical Minerals Research
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  212A

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2023

• A SHALLOW RIFT BASIN SEGMENTED IN SPACE AND TIME: THE SOUTHERN SAN LUIS BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO
  22 Tectonism and Magmatism in the Rio Grande Rift
  Thursday, 25 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Longs Peak 302A

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2022

• EARTH MRI GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY DATA HELP RESOLVE GEOLOGIC MAP BOUNDARY ISSUES IN LESS ACCESSIBLE AREAS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO
  T94 Critical Minerals and Framework Geology: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Activities (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• EARTH MRI AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS ENABLE BETTER GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATION: EXAMPLES FROM OLD AND NEW AIRBORNE MAGNETIC AND RADIOMETRIC SURVEYS OVER THE WET MOUNTAINS REGION, SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO
  T41 Critical Minerals and Framework Geology: The USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) and Related Activities II
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  601

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2019

• A SHALLOW RIFT BASIN SEGMENTED IN SPACE AND TIME: THE SOUTHERN SAN LUIS BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO
  T83 Exploring Connections between Extension, Sedimentation, and Volcanism in the Rio Grande Rift
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 231ABC, North Building

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2018

• INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL MODELING PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT IN WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR
  T119 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE 1.1 GA MIDCONTINENT RIFT BENEATH WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR PART II: EVOLUTION OF RIFT-FILL THROUGH TIME
  T119 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• REVERSE FAULT OR COMPLEX FEEDER ZONE?: EVALUATING GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE 1.1 GA MIDCONTINENT RIFT FROM ISLE ROYALE TO SUPERIOR SHOAL AND BROADER GEOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS FOR NORTHERN LAKE SUPERIOR
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• DIVERSE FEEDER SOURCES FOR THE PORTAGE LAKE VOLCANICS, MIDCONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• AEROMAGNETIC DATA ESTIMATE MAGNETIC SOURCE DEPTHS BENEATH LAKE SUPERIOR
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE 1.1 GA MIDCONTINENT RIFT BENEATH WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR PART I: SUBSIDENCE AS A MAJOR DRIVER ON BASIN DEVELOPMENT
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242

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2016

• A REVISED TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT IN THE TAOS REGION, NEW MEXICO:  INTEGRATION OF GEOPHYSICAL, GEOLOGICAL, AND BOREHOLE INFORMATION
  T173 Cenozoic Evolution of the Southern Rocky Mountains and Northern Rio Grande Rift: Exploring Linkages between Geologic History, Processes, and Landscape Change (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• PRELIMINARY 3D MODEL OF THE SAN LUIS BASIN, NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT, COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
  T173 Cenozoic Evolution of the Southern Rocky Mountains and Northern Rio Grande Rift: Exploring Linkages between Geologic History, Processes, and Landscape Change (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• PRELIMINARY 3D MODEL OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM IN THE WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, AND MICHIGAN
  T37 Precambrian Evolution and Mineral Resources of the Midcontinent Rift Region II: In Honor of William J. Hinze
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 407

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2015

• 3D GRAVITY MODELING OF THE SAN LUIS BASIN, NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT, COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
  T292 Geophysical Solutions to Geological Problems: Current Research Results and the Annual George P. Woollard Award Presentation (Posters)
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL MODELING OF THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MIOCENE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  T181 Advances in Crustal Geophysics and Tectonics I: In Honor of G.R. Keller
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 347/348
• AIRBORNE GRAVITY GRADIENT MAPPING OF CONCEALED RANGE FRONT STRUCTURE, GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK, RIO GRANDE RIFT, COLORADO
  T181 Advances in Crustal Geophysics and Tectonics I: In Honor of G.R. Keller
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 347/348

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2013

• PRELIMINARY MAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF THE USGS BP3 CORE, GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK, COLORADO
  T251 The Rio Grande Rift: New Insights on the Evolution of Faulting, Magmatism, Sedimentation, and Landscape (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• SUBSURFACE VIEWS OF A RIFT TRANSFER ZONE:  INTEGRATION OF GEOPHYSICAL, GEOLOGICAL, AND BOREHOLE INFORMATION AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE EMBUDO FAULT ZONE NEAR TAOS, NEW MEXICO
  T181 The Rio Grande Rift: New Insights on the Evolution of Faulting, Magmatism, Sedimentation, and Landscape
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 505
• TALES OF THE DEADMAN THRUST: NORTHEAST VERGING FOLDS, INJECTION BRECCIAS, AND HIGH-ANGLE NORMAL FAULTS IN THE RIFT-FLANKING BASEMENT OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS, COLORADO
  T181 The Rio Grande Rift: New Insights on the Evolution of Faulting, Magmatism, Sedimentation, and Landscape
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 505
• MAPPING UNDER THE SAND: PROGRESS REPORT ON GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES IN GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK, COLORADO
  T18 Geology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management I
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 404
• LARGE-DISPLACEMENT LARAMIDE THRUSTING IN THE SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE, COLORADO
  10 Ancestral Rockies to the Laramide: Developing Structural Styles of the Southern Rockies
  Thursday, 16 May 2013

  8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

  North Conference Room

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2012

• INSIGHTS FROM GEOPHYSICAL MODELS OF RIFT-FILL THICKNESS IN THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  17 Multidisciplinary Studies of the Rio Grande Rift: Basins, Volcanism, Geophysics, and Hydrogeology I
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Alvarado F&G
• GEOPHYSICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE GEOMETRY AND STRUCTURE OF THE SOUTHERN SAN LUIS BASIN, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO
  17 Multidisciplinary Studies of the Rio Grande Rift: Basins, Volcanism, Geophysics, and Hydrogeology I
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Alvarado F&G
• MAPPING LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS AND FAULTS WITHIN THE EAST-CENTRAL SAN LUIS BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT, USING AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEYS
  25 Multidisciplinary Studies of the Rio Grande Rift: Basins, Volcanism, Geophysics, and Hydrogeology II
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

  Alvarado F&G
• NEW INSIGHTS INTO BASIN GEOMETRY AND RANGE-FRONT FAULTING FROM RECENT GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS IN NORTHEASTERN SAN LUIS BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT, COLORADO
  9 Multidisciplinary Studies of the Rio Grande Rift: Basins, Volcanism, Geophysics, and Hydrogeology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 9 May 2012

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Alvarado D&E
• PRELIMINARY KINEMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF LATE CENOZOIC FAULTS AT THE EDGE OF AN INTERBASIN MOUNTAIN BLOCK WITHIN THE CENTRAL COLORADO RIO GRANDE RIFT: MANIFESTATIONS OF AN EXTENSIONAL ACCOMMODATION ZONE?
  9 Multidisciplinary Studies of the Rio Grande Rift: Basins, Volcanism, Geophysics, and Hydrogeology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 9 May 2012

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Alvarado D&E
• TESTING AN ACCOMMODATION-ZONE HYPOTHESIS IN THE NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT: PRELIMINARY INSIGHTS FROM THE GEOLOGY, DEFORMATION STYLE, KINEMATICS, AND AEROMAGNETIC EVIDENCE IN THE PONCHA PASS AREA, COLORADO
  9 Multidisciplinary Studies of the Rio Grande Rift: Basins, Volcanism, Geophysics, and Hydrogeology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 9 May 2012

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Alvarado D&E

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2011

• DELINEATION OF AQUIFER HETEROGENEITIES USING TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC SOUNDINGS IN THE GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK
  T104 Combining Geology and Geophysics (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• STRUCTURE AND VOLCANIC GEOLOGY OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT IN THE SOUTHERN SAN LUIS BASIN, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO – INSIGHTS FROM GEOPHYSICS
  T51 Combining Geology and Geophysics
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 101H-J

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2010

• MAPPING PLIO-PLEISTOCENE LAKE DEPOSITS UNDER GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK, SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO--INSIGHTS FROM RECENT DRILLING AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS
  T185 Geology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, Education, and Outreach (Posters)
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D
• GRAVITY INVESTIGATION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY OF THE SAN LUIS BASIN, NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT – PRELIMINARY RESULTS
  T98 Controls and Consequences of Continental Rifting: From Heat Flow, Stress, and Strain to Magmatism, Landscape-Basin Evolution, and Development of Natural Resources
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lobby F
• POTENTIAL-FIELD INVERSION -- SUPPORTING THE CONSTRUCTION AND TESTING OF GEOLOGIC MODELS
  19 Inverse Modeling and Related Analyses: Methods and Applications
  Thursday, 10 June 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Pine

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2009

• GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE NORTHERN TAOS PLATEAU, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  T101 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, Geophysical Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic Maps (Posters)
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2008

• Back to the Future - Basic Training
  T237 The Role of Field Geology and Geophysics in the Return to the Moon
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2007

• RETHINKING AN ARCHETYPE OF RIFT HALF-GRABEN FORMATION—A REVISED MODEL OF BASIN GEOMETRY FOR THE ALBUQUERQUE SEGMENT OF THE RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  T134 New Perspectives on the Rio Grande Rift: From Tectonics to Groundwater
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK AND TERTIARY HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN ESPAÑOLA BASIN, NEW MEXICO, USA, INTERPRETED FROM SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES
  T134 New Perspectives on the Rio Grande Rift: From Tectonics to Groundwater
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• TEMPORAL, STRATIGRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL CONTROLS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE CERROS DEL RIO VOLCANIC FIELD, NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  18 Structural, Stratigraphic, and Igneous Evolution of the Rio Grande Rift System
  Friday, 19 May 2006

  9:00 AM - 11:40 AM

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2005

• INSIGHTS INTO GEOMETRY AND EVOLUTION OF EXTENSIONAL BASINS IN THE WESTERN U.S. FROM COMPARISON OF GEOLOGICALLY- AND GEOPHYSICALLY-DEFINED LOCATIONS OF BASIN-BOUNDING FAULTS
  T225 Geometry and Evolution of Extensional Basins and their Influence on Fluid Flow, Sedimentation, Seismicity, and Magmatism
  Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• INTEGRATED GEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK STUDIES IN THE ESPAÑOLA BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  T59 Innovations in Geological Mapping (Posters)
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• CULEBRA GRABEN: A MAJOR INTRARIFT STRUCTURE IN THE SAN LUIS BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT
  8 Quaternary Tectonics and Earthquake Hazards in the Rocky Mountain Region
  Monday, 23 May 2005

  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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2004

• REVEALING THE STRUCTURAL AND VOLCANIC FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING GROUND WATER RESOURCES IN THE NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A HIGH-RESOLUTION AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY OVER TAOS, NEW MEXICO
  67 Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology: From Groundwater to North American Tectonics
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2002

• IMPLICATIONS OF SIGNIFICANT DISTANCES BETWEEN MAJOR FAULTS AND LARGE VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS BASED ON GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE, CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  T198 New Views of Extensional Basins and Related Volcanic Fields Using Geophysics and Remote Sensing (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• HIGH-RESOLUTION AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY REVEALS DISTRIBUTION OF FAULTS IN DIXIE VALLEY, NEVADA
  T198 New Views of Extensional Basins and Related Volcanic Fields Using Geophysics and Remote Sensing (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• AEROMAGNETIC EXPRESSION OF VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE CERROS DEL RIO VOLCANIC FIELD, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  T198 New Views of Extensional Basins and Related Volcanic Fields Using Geophysics and Remote Sensing (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• POTENTIAL FOR FAULT ZONE COMPARTMENTALIZATION OF GROUNDWATER AQUIFERS IN POORLY LITHIFIED, RIO GRANDE RIFT-RELATED SEDIMENTS, NEW MEXICO
  23 Groundwater Flow Systems in the Desert Southwest
  Thursday, 9 May 2002

  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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2001

• GEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK OF THE NORTHERN SANTO DOMINGO BASIN: STRUCTURAL OVERLAP OF THE LA BAJADA AND PAJARITO FAULT ZONES
  16 Geologic Framework of the Middle Rio Grande Basin
  Wednesday, 2 May 2001

  8:10 AM - 12:00 PM
• FAULT FRAMEWORK FOR THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN, RIO GRANDE RIFT
  16 Geologic Framework of the Middle Rio Grande Basin
  Wednesday, 2 May 2001

  8:10 AM - 12:00 PM

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Date Unknown

• COMPARING THE PATTERNS OF FAULTS IN THE NEAR-SURFACE VERSUS THE DEEP SUBSURFACE FROM THEIR GEOPHYSICAL EXPRESSION IN THE ALBUQUERQUE BASIN, NEW MEXICO
  4 General Geology and Rio Grande Rift (Posters)
• MAPPING SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE AND AQUIFERS IN THE RIO GRANDE RIFT— AEROMAGNETIC AND GRAVITY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN ESPAÑOLA BASIN, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  T182 New Perspectives on the Rio Grande Rift: From Tectonics to Groundwater (Posters)
• NEW AEROMAGNETIC DATA FOR THE CENTRAL SAN LUIS BASIN GIVE INSIGHTS FOR IMPROVING REGIONAL GROUND-WATER FLOW MODELS, SOUTHERN COLORADO AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO
  T201 Geophysical Studies for Improving Management of Land, Water, Environment, and Hazards (Posters)
• GEOPHYSICAL ANOMALIES AND NEW CONSTRAINTS ON BURIED STRUCTURES, EAST-CENTRAL SAN LUIS BASIN, COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
  T182 New Perspectives on the Rio Grande Rift: From Tectonics to Groundwater (Posters)
• INTEGRATION OF GEOLOGIC MAPPING, GEOCHRONOLOGY, PALEOMAGNETISM AND AEROMAGNETIC MAPPING IN THE CERROS DEL RIO VOLCANIC FIELD, RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  T30 The National Geologic Map Database (Posters)
• VOLCANISM AND EXTENSIONAL TECTONISM OF THE SOUTHWESTERN ESPAÑOLA BASIN, NORTHERN RIO GRANDE RIFT, NEW MEXICO
  T182 New Perspectives on the Rio Grande Rift: From Tectonics to Groundwater (Posters)