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Activity

2024

• THE EARLY MIOCENE (24-19 MA) MAGMATIC BELT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA: ORIGIN, CHARACTERISTICS, AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE
  T73 How Wide is the Transform? Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American-Pacific Plate Transform
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207B

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2022

• MAGMATIC-TECTONIC INTERACTIONS IN THE COLORADO RIVER EXTENSIONAL CORRIDOR (CREC)
  16 The Tectono-Magmatic Evolution of the Basin and Range Province I: A Session in Honor of Ernie Anderson
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 106
• MAGMATIC AND TECTONIC INTERACTIONS IN THE HINTERLAND OF THE SEVIER OROGEN: NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE DEEP CREEK RANGE AND KERN MOUNTAINS, EASTERN NEVADA
  1 Honorary Session for B. Clark Burchfiel and Gregory A. Davis for Their Seminal Contribution to the Modern Understanding of the North America Cordilleran Orogen I
  Tuesday, 15 March 2022

  9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 106

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2018

• ORTHOGONAL (N-S) EXTENSION AT THE LEADING EDGE OF A PROPAGATING CONTINENTAL RIFT: A REASSESSMENT OF HOMER MOUNTAIN AND ENVIRONS, LOWER COLORADO RIVER EXTENSIONAL CORRIDOR (CREC)
  46 Cordilleran Core Complexes and Arizona Geology III: A Celebration of Jon Spencer's Career
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Canyon Room
• LARAMIDE MAGMATISM AND EXTENSIONAL EXHUMATION RECORDED IN MIOCENE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES IN WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA
  27 Cordilleran Core Complexes and Arizona Geology II: A Celebration of Jon Spencer's Career
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  10:20 AM - 12:05 PM

  Canyon Room

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2017

• INSIGHTS INTO MIDDLE-LATE JURASSIC ANDEAN BACKARC VOLCANISM--GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE NACIENTES DEL TENO FORMATION (35°10'S)
  41 Magmatism and Orogenesis in the Sedimentary Record
  Wednesday, 24 May 2017

  3:25 PM - 4:50 PM

  Room 319B
• CHARACTERIZING PRE-MIOCENE LOWER PLATE STRUCTURES OF THE NORTHERN SNAKE RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, EASTERN NEVADA: INSIGHTS INTO THE ROLE OF TECTONIC HEREDITY IN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX EVOLUTION
  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
• THE EARLY MIOCENE HORSE CAMP BASIN, NAVADA:  ARCHITECTURE, DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY, AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF A CLASSIC EXTENSIONAL HALF GRABEN
  2 Cordilleran Magmatic Forensics I—Insights from the Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Record
  Tuesday, 23 May 2017

  8:30 AM - 11:50 AM

  Room 318A
• EXPLORING THE GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTER OF VOLCANISM IN THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS REGION, CA AND AZ; DID CRUSTAL MELTING PLAY A ROLE IN THE EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE OF THE COLORADO RIVER EXTENSIONAL CORRIDOR?
  17 Cordilleran Magmatic Forensics II—Insights from the Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Record
  Tuesday, 23 May 2017

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Room 318A

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2016

• GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WESTERN WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN MOPAH RANGE, SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA: UNRAVELING THE ERUPTIVE AND STRUCTURAL HISTORY OF A SYNEXTENSIONAL MIOCENE VOLCANIC PROVINCE
  T266 Best Student Geologic Mapping Competition (Posters)
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F

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2015

• FIELD CALIBRATION OF 40AR/39AR K-FELDSPAR MULTIPLE DIFFUSION DOMAIN (MDD) THERMAL MODELS AT THE GRAYBACK NORMAL FAULT BLOCK, ARIZONA
  T104 Novel Methods, Applications, and Data Interpretations in Thermochronology
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 310

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2014

• RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MELANESIAN BACK-ARC BASINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU ACCRETION
  T270 Ridge to Trench Evolution of Oceanic Lithosphere and Its Accretion Tectonics in the Pacific Rim (Past and Present)
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  119/120
• POLYPHASE (EOCENE AND MIOCENE) EXTENSIONAL FAULTING OF THE CENTRAL SCHELL CREEK RANGE, WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA
  T64 The Structure of Faults from Top to Bottom: Implication for Fluid Flow, Ore Deposits, and Seismic Hazard II
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  118

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2013

• METAMOPRHIC CORE COMPLEXES IN FOUR DIMENSIONS:THE ROLE OF POLYPHASE DEFORMATION, NON-CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURES, AND TECTONIC HEREDITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE SNAKE RANGE-KERN MOUNTAINS-DEEP CREEK COMPLEX, EASTERN NEVADA
  T217 The Role of Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Extension
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 507
• FIELD CALIBRATION STUDIES OF CONTINUOUS THERMAL HISTORIES DERIVED FROM MULTIPLE DIFFUSION DOMAIN (MDD) MODELING OF 40AR/39AR K–FELDSPAR ANALYSES AT THE GRAYBACK (AZ) AND GOLD BUTTE (NV) NORMAL FAULT BLOCKS
  T248 Recent Advances in Thermochronology (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN THE INCEPTION OF MIOCENE VOLCANISM AND UPPER PLATE EXTENSIONAL BLOCK ROTATION IN THE VICINITY OF THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS, CA AND AZ
  T57 Evolving Understanding of Extensional Provinces: Advancements and Challenges (Posters)
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• CRUSTAL EXHUMATION OF THE WESTERN GNEISS REGION UHP TERRANE, NORWAY: 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND FAULT-SLIP ANALYSIS
  T84 Recent Advances in Thermochronology
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 505
• LATE MIOCENE (12-6 MA) TRANSTENSIONAL FAULTING, BLOCK ROTATIONS, AND VOLCANISM DURING INCEPTION OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA OBLIQUE RIFT, SOUTHWESTERN SONORA, MEXICO
  13 Reconstructing the Pacific-North America Plate Boundary Through Late Cenozoic Time I
  Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Salon A2
• MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF QUARTZ MYLONITES AND NEW U-PB ZIRCON AGES OF CRETACEOUS INTRUSIONS IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE NORTHERN SNAKE RANGE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, NEVADA
  28 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C
• GEOCHRONOLOGY AND STRAIN ANALYSIS OF THE JURASSIC PLUTONIC COMPLEX ON THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF THE NORTHERN SNAKE RANGE, NEVADA
  28 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 May 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon B/C

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2011

• 40Ar/39Ar K–FELDSPAR THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF THE HARCUVAR CORE COMPLEX, WESTERN ARIZONA: NEW INSIGHT INTO THE TIMING OF EXTENSION AND DEGREE OF FOOTWALL TILT
  13 Structural Geology and Tectonics
  Thursday, 19 May 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Elm
• LATE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA: HINTERLAND TECTONICS AND THE ORIGIN OF METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  2 From Contraction to Extension: The Mesozoic to Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Great Basin I
  Wednesday, 18 May 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Willow

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2010

• THERMOCHRONOLOGY OF THE TALKEETNA INTRA-OCEANIC ARC OF ALASKA: 40Ar/39Ar, U-TH/HE, SM-ND, AND LU-HF DATING
  T282 EARTHTIME: In Honor of the Contributions of James Mattinson to High-Precision U-Pb Geochronology
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 207

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2009

• LATE CRETACEOUS–EARLY TERTIARY EXTENSION IN THE CENTRAL MOJAVE METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX: IMPLICATIONS FOR CORE COMPLEX FORMATION AND THE LARAMIDE OROGENY
  T231 New Developments in Understanding the Mesozoic Cordilleran Orogen: Linking Forearc, Arc, and Backarc Processes
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107/108/109

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2008

• A Thermochronologic Transect of Basement Rocks across Central Sonora, Mexico: Implications for Laramide Tectonics and Cenozoic Extension
  T342 Recent Advances in the Study of the Laramide Orogeny and Related Processes in Mexico and the Southern United States
  Thursday, 9 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Insights on Metamorphic Core Complex Formation from the Sierra Mazatán Case Study
  T130 Modes of Lithospheric Extension: Oceanic and Continental Core Complexes
  Sunday, 5 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• WAS THE LARAMIDE OROGENY AN EXTENSIONAL EVENT? EVIDENCE FOR EARLY TERTIARY EXTENSIONAL UNROOFING OF SOME OF THE CORDILLERAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  7 Causes and Consequences of Laramide Tectonics in the Forearc, Arc, and Backarc of the Southwestern United States
  Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:40 PM

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2006

• A PALEOMAGNETIC INVESTIGATION OF LARGE SCALE VERTICAL AXIS ROTATIONS IN COASTAL SONORA: EVIDENCE FOR TRANSTENSIONAL PROTO-GULF DEFORMATION
  124 Structural Geology II
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• CENOZOIC STRUCTURAL AND MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE SONORAN BASIN-RANGE AND GULF OF CALIFORNIA RIFT SYSTEM
  10 T4. Triple Junction Regions II
  Thursday, 6 April 2006

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
• EPISODIC DEFORMATION AND DEPOSITION IN NW MEXICO FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS TO MIDDLE TERTIARY AS RECORDED IN SAHUARIPA, SONORA
  12 T3. Shallowing and Steepening Subduction Zones III
  Thursday, 6 April 2006

  2:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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2005

• EPISODIC, MULTI-MECHANISTIC EXHUMATION OF THE BROOKS RANGE OROGEN AS REVEALED BY THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  T252 Accretionary Orogens in Space and Time II
  Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• EXTENSION AND MAGMATISM IN THE NORTHERN COLORADO RIVER CORRIDOR: ERNIE'S CONUNDRUMS REVISITED
  T55 Controversies, Conundrums, and Innovative Approaches in Extensional Tectonics: A Tribute to Ernie Anderson
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• FROM SUBDUCTION TO EXTENSION/TRANSTENSION; A CASE STUDY IN TRANSITIONAL GEOCHEMISTRY FROM SONORA, MEXICO
  5 Tectonics I
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX EVOLUTION: INSIGHTS FROM THE SIERRA MAZATÁN CASE STUDY
  T55 Controversies, Conundrums, and Innovative Approaches in Extensional Tectonics: A Tribute to Ernie Anderson
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• CARSON PASS-KIRKWOOD PALEOCANYON SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TERTIARY EVOLUTION OF THE SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA
  22 Volcaniclastic Strata: Process, Paleogeography, and Tectonic Reconstructions
  Saturday, 30 April 2005

  8:20 AM - 12:00 PM
• USING 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY TO ASSESS THE TILTING AND EXHUMATION OF CONTINENTAL CRUSTAL SECTIONS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SIERRA MAZATAN CORE COMPLEX, SONORA, MEXICO
  13 Crustal Cross Sections from the Western North America Cordillera and Elsewhere—Implications for Tectonic and Petrologic Processes
  Friday, 29 April 2005

  1:10 PM - 5:00 PM
• EARLY TERTIARY FLUVIAL SEDIMENTS IN EAST-CENTRAL SONORA: RELATIVES OF THE RIM GRAVELS?
  8 Sedimentology (Posters)
  Friday, 29 April 2005

  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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2003

• NEOGENE EVOLUTION OF THE COSTA RICAN ARC AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CORDILLERA CENTRAL
  33 The Caribbean and Central American Realms of the Southernmost Cordillera
  Thursday, 3 April 2003

  8:30 AM - 12:05 PM
• STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SAHUARIPA BASIN AND PRELIMINARY COMPARISON TO THE RIO YAQUI BASIN, EAST-CENTRAL SONORA, MEXICO
  16 Tectonics, Structure, and Geophysics of the Gulf of California–Salton Trough Region (Posters)
  Wednesday, 2 April 2003

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
• STRUCTURAL AND MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE SONORAN RIFTED MARGIN: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
  12 Tectonics, Structure, and Geophysics of the Gulf of California–Salton Trough Region II
  Tuesday, 1 April 2003

  2:15 PM - 5:30 PM
• TIMING, MAGNITUDE, AND RATE OF EXTENSIONAL UNROOFING AT THE SIERRA MAZATAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, SONORA, MEXICO: RESULTS FROM 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  12 Tectonics, Structure, and Geophysics of the Gulf of California–Salton Trough Region II
  Tuesday, 1 April 2003

  2:15 PM - 5:30 PM
• MID-MIOCENE PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA–BASIN AND RANGE TRANSITION AT THE TYPE LOCALITY OF THE LOVEJOY BASALT
  4 Volcanology, Volcanism and Volcanic Rocks (Posters)
  Tuesday, 1 April 2003

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

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Date Unknown

• NEOGENE EVOLUTION OF THE COSTA RICAN ARC
  224 Volcanology (Posters)
• IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TRANSITION FROM OLIGO-MIOCENE SUBDUCTION TO LATE MIOCENE TRANSTENSION IN SOUTHERN SONORA, MEXICO FROM IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY
  4 T4. Triple Junction Regions I
• LARGE SCALE VERTICAL AXIS ROTATIONS IN COASTAL SONORA: EVIDENCE FOR TRANSTENSIONAL PROTO-GULF DEFORMATION
  28 Tectonics (Posters)
• LARGE SCALE VERTICAL AXIS ROTATIONS IN COASTAL SONORA: EVIDENCE FOR TRANSTENSIONAL PROTO-GULF DEFORMATION
  27 Structural Geology/Tectonics (Posters)
• SYNCHRONOUS OLIGO-MIOCENE TECTONIC EXHUMATION OF METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES IN NW MEXICO: PRELIMINARY 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS
  171 Tectonics (Posters)
• THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE SAHUARIPA BASIN, EAST-CENTRAL SONORA, MEXICO
  171 Tectonics (Posters)
• PRELIMINARY STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SAHUARIPA BASIN, SONORA, MEXICO
  191 Tectonics (Posters) II
• EARLY MIOCENE LARGE-MAGNITUDE EXTENSION IN THE SIERRA MAZATAN METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX, SONORA, MEXICO
  14 Tectonics (Posters) I
• EXHUMATION HISTORY OF AN ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE TERRANE
  T262 Phase Relations, High P-T Terrains, P-T-ometry and Plate Pushing (Posters): A Tribute to W.G. Ernst
• EXHUMATION OF UHP ROCKS IN WESTERN NORWAY - THE ROLE OF THE NORDFJORD-SOGN DETACHMENT ZONE
  27 Tectonics (Posters) I: Strike-slip, Extension, Alpine-Himalayan Tectonics
• USGS-EDMAP STUDY OF TERTIARY PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOTECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SIERRA NEVADA IN THE CARSON PASS-KIRKWOOD AREA
  43 State Geological Survey Cooperative Geologic Mapping Projects under STATEMAP and EDMAP (Posters) II
• GEOLOGIC MAPPING, SEDIMENTOLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND 40AR/39AR GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE SOUTHEAST LAGUNA DEL LAJA AREA, CENTRAL ANDES, CHILE (37º30'S 71º15'W)
  5 T5. Processes, Comparisons and Other Cordilleran Issues I: Seismicity, General Tectonic Processes, and Specific Examples