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Activity

2024

• TRANSPORT OF MID-CRUSTAL FLUIDS TO THE UPPER CRUST THROUGH BRITTLE FAULT NETWORKS AS REVEALED BY STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS OF TOURMALINE-MINERALIZED FAULT SURFACES, WEST ANTARCTICA
  T119 Structurally Controlled Systems: Using Field, Analytical, and Modeling Approaches to Unravel Upper Crustal and Surface Processes in Contractional, Extensional, and Strike-Slip Orogens (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• UNVEILING THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF MARIE BYRD LAND, WEST ANTARCTICA: INSIGHTS FROM THERMO-KINEMATIC MODELING AND LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  T101 36th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition Sponsored by Sigma Gamma Epsilon (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• DIFFERENTIAL EXHUMATION IN WESTERN MARIE BYRD LAND, WEST ANTARCTICA, EXPOSED THROUGH LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND THERMO-KINEMATIC MODELING
  T4 Advances and Applications of Thermochronology to Tectonic, Magmatic, Basin, and Geomorphic Problems
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  212B
• INVESTIGATION OF TOURMALINE-MINERALIZED MIRRORED BRITTLE FAULTS FROM WEST ANTARCTICA USING ∂18O (QZ-TUR), TOURMALINE 40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY, AND BRITTLE KINEMATIC ANALYSIS
  37 D1. Recent Advances in Geoscience and Geoscience Education (Posters)
  Friday, 17 May 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• NEOPROTEROZOIC ORIGIN OF THE UTE PASS FAULT (SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE) AND STRUCTURAL CONTROL UPON THE PRESERVATION OF A SNOWBALL EARTH SEDIMENTARY RECORD IN COLORADO
  4 Structure and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera and Rocky Mountains I
  Wednesday, 15 May 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Maple Ballroom

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2022

• UNDERSTANDING FAULT-FLUID INTERACTION THROUGH STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF TOURMALINE-COATED BRITTLE FAULTS OF THE WEST ANTARCTIC RIFT SYSTEM
  245 D35. Recent Advances in Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT UNCONFORMITIES
  140 The Proterozoic-Phanerozoic Transition: Laying the Foundation for the Modern Earth System
  Tuesday, 11 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2AB/3AB

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2017

• NEW TECTONIC BOUNDARY AND GONDWANA MARGIN INHERITANCE REVEALED IN CRUST BENEATH ROSS ICE SHELF, ANTARCTICA, THROUGH ROSETTA-ICE PROJECT INTEGRATION OF AEROGEOPHYSICS, GEOLOGY, AND OCEAN DATA
  T148 Integrated Approaches to Deciphering Major Crustal Boundaries in Polyphase Orogenic Settings
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Tahoma 3
• DIGITAL GEOLOGICAL DATASET FOR THE ROSS SEA REGION, ANTARCTICA, AND OTHER MAPPING INITIATIVES OF THE ANTARCTIC GEOMAP PROJECT
  T71 Geologic Maps and Their Derivatives (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls 4EF

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2016

• A HEMATITE (U-TH)/HE MINIMUM AGE FOR CRYOGENIAN TAVA SANDSTONE, COLORADO, AND VARIATIONS IN DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE THAT ILLUMINATE THE PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE REGION
  T317 Tectonics of North American Cordillera and the Alps: Celebrating the Telling-It-Like-It-Is Scientific Career of Tim Wawrzyniec
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2B
• LARGE SCALE CONTINENTAL EXTENSION IN WEST ANTARCTICA
  T229 Large-Scale Continental Extensional Tectonics
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 203
• INFORMAL EDUCATION IN GEOSCIENCE: THE PIKES PEAK PEBBLE PUPS AND EARTH SCIENCE SCHOLARS
  207 Geoscience Education
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2C
• FIRST DIGITAL GEOLOGICAL MAP DATASET OF MARIE BYRD LAND: A PRODUCT OF THE SCAR GEOMAP PROJECT
  63 Geophysical Solutions to Geological Problems: Current Research Results (Posters)
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F

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2015

• HAFNIUM ISOTOPE EVIDENCE ON THE SOURCES OF GRENVILLE-AGE DETRITAL ZIRCON DEPOSITED AT THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY
  T341 Deconstructing Rodinia: Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Geologic Evolution of Laurentia’s Margins
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 314
• BUILDING ON THE LEGACY OF DEEP PROBE AND CD-ROM: CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE BIGHORN MOUNTAINS, WYOMING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PRECAMBRIAN AND LARAMIDE TECTONICS
  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
• DECODING MULTIPLE HIGH-TEMPERATURE METAMORPHIC EVENTS USING PHASE EQUILIBRIA MODELLING, LU–HF GARNET GEOCHRONOLOGY AND IN SITU U–PB MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY
  T167 Metamorphic Petrology: New Approaches and Outcomes
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 317
• LAURENTIA INTRACONTINENTAL BREAKUP STRUCTURES AND PALEOGEOGRAPHY, ILLUMINATED BY DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE SPECTRA FROM NEOPROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN SANDSTONES OF REGIONAL EXTENT IN COLORADO, USA
  47 Tectonics/Tectonophysics (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• THE POWDER RIVER PASS SHEAR ZONE - ROOTS OF AN ARCHEAN FORELAND THRUST FAULT?
  19 Structural Geology, Tectonics, and Tectonophysics (Posters)
  Saturday, 23 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  North/Central Ballroom
• BASEMENT-INVOLVED LARAMIDE THRUSTING AND LOWER-CRUSTAL DETACHMENT IN THE ROCKIES: RESULTS FROM THE NSF/EARTHSCOPE BIGHORN PROJECT
  10 Mountain Building and Basin Response: New Insights to the Bighorn Mountains and Associated Basins
  Friday, 22 May 2015

  10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

  South Ballroom

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2014

• CRYOGENIAN SANDSTONES IN COLORADO: A NEW TERRESTRIAL RECORD FOR LAURENTIA (RODINIA) REVEALED THROUGH DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS
  T322 Precambrian Geology of the North American Cordillera: An Exploration of New Developments in Laurentia’s Ancient History (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• "NEW" NEOPROTEROZOIC COMES TO LIGHT IN THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE:  DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS RESOLVES THE AGE OF BASEMENT-HOSTED INJECTITES AND REMOBILIZED MATURE SANDSTONES
  28 Precambrian II: Meso- and Neoproterozoic Evolution of Western Laurentia II: In Honor of Don Winston
  Wednesday, 21 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Gaines Hall 101
• CHARACTERISTICS OF AN OBLIQUE DETACHMENT SYSTEM IN WEST ANTARCTICA, AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BREAKUP OF GONDWANA'S ACCRETIONARY MARGIN
  13 Snoke Session 2: The Eclectic Tectonic Legacy of Arthur W. Snoke—Comparative Anatomy and Tectonic Evolution of Continental Margins from the Precambrian to Recent II
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  10:10 AM - 12:00 PM

  Gaines Hall 101
• SEDIMENTATION RATES AND ALLUVIAL PROCESSES DURING EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS IN SEMIARID ENVIRONMENTS: DRAMATIC GROWTH OF AN ALLUVIAL FAN AT THE URBAN–WILDLAND INTERFACE, COLORADO, SEPTEMBER 2013
  15 Tectonic and Climatic Drivers in Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution
  Tuesday, 20 May 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  SUB 233/235

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2013

• ARMO REACTIVATION OF CAMBRIAN OR OLDER STRUCTURES: DETRITAL ZIRCON EVIDENCE FROM "STRUCTURELESS" SANDSTONES OF THE SOUTHERN FRONT RANGE IN COLORADO SPRINGS
  T401 Tectonics and Paleoenvironments of Western Pangaea—New Perspectives on the Greater Ancestral Rocky Mountains
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 505
• ILLITE AR-AR THERMOCHRONOLOGY APPLIED TO THE TIME OF FORMATION OF THE FRONT RANGE MONOCLINE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
  T368 Hinterland, Retroarc Fold- Thrust Belt, and Foreland Systems (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY AS A PROXY FOR EMPLACEMENT PATTERNS OF BASEMENT-HOSTED SANDSTONE DIKES, COLORADO FRONT RANGE
  T213 Paleomagnetism of the Americas and Europe and Their Surroundings: Questions Answered, Questions Remaining, and Questions to Come
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 504
• BASIN AND CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE BIGHORN MOUNTAIN REGION FROM TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTION AND SURFACE WAVE ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE KINEMATICS OF LARAMIDE SHORTENING
  T290 A Review of Old and New Concepts in Laramide Basin Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 504
• LARAMIDE MID-CRUSTAL DETACHMENT IN THE ROCKIES: RESULTS FROM THE NSF/EARTHSCOPE BIGHORN PROJECT
  T15 The Structure and Evolution of the North American Lithosphere: An Integrated Perspective
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 401

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2012

• 3D MAPPING OF SHEAR ZONES AND MELT FLOW NETWORKS IN THE FOSDICK MOUNTAINS GNEISS DOME OF WEST ANTARCTICA, USING SATELLITE IMAGERY UPON A HIGH RESOLUTION DEM
  T40 Dynamics of Gneiss Domes, Core Complexes, and Orogenic Plateaux (Posters)
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall B
• GEOMAGNETIC INVESTIGATION OF SANDSTONE DIKES OF THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE, FOR DETERMINATION OF AGE AND MODE OF EMPLACEMENT
  23 Undergraduate Research in the Rocky Mountains (Posters)
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Alvarado D&E

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2011

• USE OF STEREOSCOPIC SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR 3D MAPPING OF BEDROCK STRUCTURE IN WEST ANTARCTICA: EXAMPLES FROM THE FORD RANGES AND NEOGENE VOLCANOES OF MARIE BYRD LAND
  T262 Geologic Maps, Digital Geologic Maps, and Derivatives from Geologic and Geophysical Maps (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• POTENTIAL SOURCES OF CRUSTAL ANISOTROPY IN THE WYOMING PROVINCE: INSIGHTS FROM BASEMENT STRUCTURES OF THE BIGHORN MOUNTAINS, WYOMING
  T175 The Archean of North America: The Core of a Continent (Posters)
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• ROTATION OF THE STRAIN FIELD DURING EMPLACEMENT AND EXHUMATION OF THE FOSDICK MOUNTAINS MIGMATITE-CORED GNEISS DOME, WEST ANTARCTICA
  T202 Deformation of the Lithosphere: Field Observations, Experimental Investigations, and Numerical Studies II
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 200A-C
• FORMATION OF BASEMENT-INVOLVED FORELAND ARCHES: NEW RESULTS FROM THE EarthScope BIGHORN PROJECT
  143 The EarthScope Program: Recent Results and Future Projects
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 101A-C
• NEW INSIGHTS ONn THE TIMING AND EXTENT OF CRETACEOUS EXHUMATION IN THE WEST ANTARCTIC RIFT SYSTEM, FROM U-PB AND (U-TH)/HE ZIRCON ANALYSIS
  32 Tectonics (Posters) I: New Discoveries in Global Tectonics
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C

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2010

• DETACHMENT FOLDING AND THE ROCKIES: NEW DATA FROM THE EarthScope BIGHORN PROJECT
  T148 Successes, Failures, and the Future of Area-Volume Balancing and Structural Restoration: A Critical Evaluation Honoring the Centennial of R.T. Chamberlin’s Groundbreaking Paper On Depth-to-Detachment Calculation II
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Hall E
• IMAGING THE ROOTS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARCHES: THE NSF-EarthScope BIGHORN PROJECT
  31 Structural Geology, Tectonics, and Petrology
  Friday, 23 April 2010

  1:20 PM - 2:40 PM

  Alpine Room

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2009

• NEOTECTONIC EVALUATION OF SEISMIC HAZARD ALONG THE RUATANIWHA FAULT, DANNEVIRKE REGION, NEW ZEALAND
  223 Structural Geology: Advances in Understanding Deformational Processes Ancient and Modern
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A105
• THE RECORD OF EAST GONDWANA MARGIN CYCLES IN WEST ANTARCTICA: EVIDENCE FROM MARIE BYRD LAND
  T79 Growth and Stabilization of Continental Crust in Circum-Pacific Accretionary Orogens
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A107/108/109
• MELT TRANSFER AND GNEISS DOME EMPLACEMENT DURING OBLIQUE DILATION
  T16 Pluton Assembly: Duration, Mechanisms, and Structural Controls
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A105

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2008

• Evidence from the Fosdick Mountains, Antarctica for Rapid Cooling of Mid- to Lower Crustal Rocks during Cretaceous Intracontinental Extension of the East Gondwana Margin
  T322 Mid- to Lower Crustal Deformation Processes: Strain, Kinematics and Relationships to Upper Crustal Structures
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2007

• EXPERIMENTAL WELDING OF PYROCLASTIC DEPOSITS: RHEOLOGY AND STRAIN
  31 Council on Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Sunday, 6 May 2007

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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2006

• STRUCTURAL CONTROLS ON MELT TRANSPORT PATHS AND DURATION OF DEFORMATION-INDUCED MELT MIGRATION, FOSDICK MOUNTAINS, ANTARCTICA
  T139 Crustal Melt Flow in Orogenic Belts: Integrated Field, Microstructural, Geochemical and Geochronological Analysis of Migmatites and Associated Granites
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2004

• NEOGENE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLEASANT VALLEY GRABEN (HOWARD, CO) BASED ON THE STUDY OF MESOSCOPIC FAULTS
  T217 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains IV (Posters)
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SHEAR ZONE ROOTS IN THE MIDDLE CRUST: THE TRANSITION FROM PARTITIONED DEFORMATION TO PENETRATIVE DUCTILE FLOW IN THE NORTHERN WET MOUNTAINS, CO
  T217 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains IV (Posters)
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• INSIGHTS ON THE KINEMATIC EVOLUTION OF THE UTE PASS FAULT ZONE FROM INVESTIGATION OF MESOSCOPIC BRITTLE FAULTS
  T217 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains IV (Posters)
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• CIRCA 1.4 GA PENETRATIVE DEFORMATION IN THE SOUTHERN WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: IMPLICATIONS FOR MESOPROTEROZOIC INTRACONTINENTAL TECTONISM ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  T173 Pre-EarthScope Synthesis of the Rocky Mountains V: New Insights in Basement Tectonics, Deep Crustal Structure and Precambrian Tectonic Evolution
  Tuesday, 9 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2003

• STRIKE SLIP ATTACHMENT HYPOTHESIS FOR CRETACEOUS EXHUMATION OF THE FOSDICK MOUNTAINS MIGMATITE DOME, ANTARCTICA
  T182 Exhumation Along Major Continental Strike-Slip Fault Systems II
  Tuesday, 4 November 2003

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2002

• THE MESOPROTEROZOIC RECORD IN THE WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO
  T80 Rocky Mountains II: Lithospheric Structure and Evolution of Rocky Mountain Region, from Deep Mantle to Mountain Tops I
  Monday, 28 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• RECONCILING "ANOROGENIC" PLUTONISM WITH REGIONAL CONVERGENCE AT ~1.4 GA: TRANSCURRENT TECTONICS IN SOUTHERN LAURENTIA
  T106 A-Type Plutons and Convergent Margins: Orogenic Links to Anorogenic Magmatism?
  Monday, 28 October 2002

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• TRANSTENSIONAL SHEAR ZONES IN SOUTHERN LAURENTIA, IMPLICATIONS FOR 1.4 GA TECTONICS
  8 Tectonics/Structure/Precambrian/Geochemistry/Petrology/Volcanology
  Friday, 12 April 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
• PRECAMBRIAN GRANULITE FACIES METAMORPHISM IN THE WET MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDE RIGHT-SLIP
  7 Structural Geology/Volcanology/Geophysics/Precambrian (Posters)
  Friday, 12 April 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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2001

• CONTRASTING LEVELS OF EXPOSURE OF MESOPROTEROZOIC PLUTONS IN THE WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO: IMPLICATIONS FOR EMPLACEMENT UNDER DYNAMIC VS. SYNTECTONIC CONDITIONS
  6 Mesoproterozoic Tectonics of the Southwestern United States
  Monday, 30 April 2001

  1:25 PM - 5:00 PM
• FIELD INVESTIGATION OF SMALL MESOPROTEROZOIC INTRUSIONS IN THE SOUTHERN COLORADO: LACK OF DEFORMATION FABRICS GIVES EVIDENCE FOR COMPARATIVELY SHALLOW EMPLACEMENT
  7 Undergraduate Research Session (Posters)
  Monday, 30 April 2001

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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• NEW EVIDENCE FOR THE PROTEROZOIC BIG SKY OROGENY RECORDED IN BIOTITE-GARNET-SILLIMANITE GNEISSES FROM SHEAR ZONES IN THE HIGHLAND MOUNTAINS, MONTANA
  8 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
• INTEGRATING CLASSROOM AND LAB PROJECTS WITH FIELDWORK AND FIELD TRIPS: RESULTS OF A TSG WORKING GROUP
  T187 Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century (Posters)
• MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE MIGMATITES FROM THE FOSDICK DOME, WEST ANTARCTICA: A QUEST FOR ANATEXIS
  143 Mineralogy/Crystallography; Petrology; Volcanology (Posters)
• INVESTIGATION OF CORDIERITE AND SILLIMANITE TEXTURES AS A TEST OF EMPLACEMENT MODELS FOR THE FOSDICK GNEISS DOME, ANTARCTICA
  T96 Dynamics of Metamorphic and Hydrothermal Processes: From Grain-Scale to Mountain Belt (Posters)
• SYNTECTONIC EMPLACEMENT OF THE 1.44 GA OAK CREEK PLUTON, WET MOUNTAINS, COLORADO
  T107 A-Type Plutons and Convergent Margins: Orogenic Links to Anorogenic Magmatism? (Posters)
• DURATION OF MELT-PRESENT TO SOLID-STATE DEFORMATION IN THE SOUTH FOSDICK DETACHMENT ZONE, FOSDICK MOUNTAINS, WEST ANTARCTICA
  83 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)