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Activity

2025

• LATE TRIASSIC SUPRA-SUBDUCTION ZONE OPHIOLITE BASEMENT UNDERPINNING OF THE GUERRERO COMPOSITE TERRANE OF WESTERN MEXICO AND ITS LINKAGE TO THE ARTEAGA COMPLEX ACCRETIONARY PRISM; SUPPORT FOR ANDEAN-STYLE SUBDUCTION SINCE 220 Ma ALONG THE NORTH AMERICAN MARGIN
  28 Plumes, Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: Honoring the Scientific Contributions of John W. Shervais
  Friday, 4 April 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Balboa/Calaveras

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2022

• PROVENANCE TIES LINKING THE MESOZOIC VIZCAÍNO-CEDROS FOREARC REGION OF WEST-CENTRAL BAJA CALIFORNIA TO THE SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICAN MARGIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ALISITOS ARC AND GUERRERO TERRANE OF MAINLAND MEXICO
  T216 Basin Analysis, Strike-Slip Faults, and Tectonics III: Honoring the Contributions of Paul Umhoefer
  Wednesday, 12 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  607
• CORRELATING THE ENDICOTT MOUNTAINS ALLOCHTHON, THE AMAWK THRUST, AND THE REGIONAL PRE-MISSSISSIPPIAN UNCONFORMITY ACROSS THE MT. DOONERAK ANTIFORM INTO THE CENTRAL BELT, CENTRAL BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA
  T76 The Geological Evolution of Northern Alaska: A Session in Honor of Charles ?Gil? Mull
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3C

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2019

• CLUES TO THE PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK OF NORTHERN ALASKA FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB DATING OF THE UPPER DEVONIAN AND LOWER MISSISSIPPIAN ENDICOTT GROUP
  13 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic II: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Room B117-119
• NEW ZIRCON U-PB AGES AND HF ISOTOPES FROM BROOKS RANGE OPHIOLITE AND KOYUKUK ARC, THE UPPER PLATE OF THE BROOKIAN OROGEN, NORTHERN ALASKA
  13 Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska and the Arctic II: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career (2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career Contribution Award)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Room B117-119

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2016

• CAUSES OF ALONG-STRIKE VARIATION IN THE BROOKS RANGE OROGEN OF NORTHERN ALASKA
  T113 Along-Strike Variations in Mountain Belts: Why Are They Important and What Causes Them?
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2B

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2015

• TIME-SLICE MAPS SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTRACTIONAL DEFORMATION IN ALASKA NORTH OF 60°N
  11 New Discoveries in Resolving the Terrane Assembly of Western North American and Northeast Asia (Posters)
  Tuesday, 12 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Atrium/Hallway
• NORTHERN CORDILLERA TECTONIC MODEL
  13 New Discoveries in Resolving the Terrane Assembly of Western North American and Northeast Asia
  Tuesday, 12 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lecture Hall
• BERRIASIAN TO THE HOLOCENE PROVENANCE CHANGES IN THE COLVILLE FORELAND BASIN, NORTHERN ALASKA:  DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB RESULTS FROM THE DALTON HIGHWAY CORRIDOR
  1 Origins and Orogenies of Arctic Alaska: Honoring the Career of Alison Till, U.S. Geological Survey–Anchorage
  Monday, 11 May 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lecture Hall

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2014

• A NEW TECTONIC MAP OF ALASKA NORTH OF 60°
  T326 Circum-Arctic Lithosphere-Basin Evolution II
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  121

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2013

• REMNANTS IN NORTHEASTERN ALASKA OF PART OF A DEVONIAN COLLISIONAL ZONE FROM THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF LAURENTIA
  T56 The Life and Death of Mobile Belts along the North American Cordillera: Advances in Understanding the Long- Term Construction of Continental Margins (Posters)
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• EASTERN SLOPE FACIES OF THE HAVALLAH-SCHOONOVER BASIN, NEVADA: TRANSITIONAL ZONE BETWEEN THE ANTLER HIGH AND DEEP MARINE BASIN IN THE LOWER PART OF THE GOLCONDA ALLOCHTHON
  T56 The Life and Death of Mobile Belts along the North American Cordillera: Advances in Understanding the Long- Term Construction of Continental Margins (Posters)
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D

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2012

• DYNAMIC OF OROGENIC PROCESSES IN THE BROOKS RANGES, ALASKA : INSIGHTS FROM LOW T THERMOCHRONOLOGY
  T106 Multidisciplinary Studies of Convergent Plate Boundaries (Posters): In Honor of Jason Saleeby, 2012 MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Awardee
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B

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2010

• TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON RESULTS FROM PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN BASEMENT ROCKS OF THE NORTHEAST BROOKS RANGE, ARCTIC ALASKA TERRANE, NORTHERN ALASKA
  T243 New Insights on the Tectonic, Magmatic, Paleobiogeographic, and Metallogenic Evolution of Terranes in the North American Cordillera from Alaska to California I
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 406

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2009

• ARCTIC PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND TECTONICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CORDILLERAN TERRANES
  5 Paleozoic Paleogeography of Cordilleran Terranes II
  Thursday, 7 May 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2008

• DETRITAL ZIRCON DATA FROM NORTHERN ALASKA: A SUMMARY OF INITIAL RESULTS
  20 Detrital Zircon Studies in Western North America
  Thursday, 20 March 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:15 PM

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2007

• DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB ANALYSIS OF PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN METASEDIMENTARY BASEMENT STRATA, NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA: EVIDENCE OF A CALEDONIAN CONNECTION
  T181 Active and Ancient Tectonics along the Northern Cordillera Margin—Magmatism, Deformation, Metamorphism, and Basin Development (Posters)
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• GEOLOGIC SYNTHESIS OF THE METAMORPHIC CORE OF THE BROOKS RANGE OROGEN, ALASKA
  T181 Active and Ancient Tectonics along the Northern Cordillera Margin—Magmatism, Deformation, Metamorphism, and Basin Development (Posters)
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• STRUCTURAL STYLE AND TECTONIC CONTEXT OF BASEMENT-INVOLVED TERTIARY FORELAND DEFORMATION IN NORTHEASTERN ALASKA
  T18 Regional Tectonics of Basement-Cored Foreland Shortening: Integrating Geological and Geophysical Insights from Laramide and Analogous Orogens
  Sunday, 28 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• THE BROOKS RANGE FORELAND BASIN—WHERE IS THE PROVENANCE FOR BROOKIAN SEDIMENTATION?
  28 Origin and Accretionary Processes of Cordilleran Terranes: New Methods, Models and Challenges I
  Sunday, 6 May 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• NORTH AMERICAN AFFINITY OF SOUTHWEST CORDILLERAN MESOZOIC TERRANES IMPLIED BY DETRITAL ZIRCON U/PB AGES
  21 Paleogeographic Reconstructions of Cordilleran Terranes II: In Honor of David L. Jones
  Saturday, 5 May 2007

  1:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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2006

• DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB AGES FROM FORELAND BASIN DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA
  41 AAPG/GSA: Foreland Basin Systems: Archives of Coupled Structural and Sedimentary Processes
  Wednesday, 10 May 2006

  1:20 PM - 4:00 PM
• CRUSTAL EVOLUTION AS SEEN IN A TRANSECT ACROSS ALASKA, FROM PACIFIC TO ARCTIC MARGINS
  33 GSA: Accreted Terranes of Western North America: An Update on Current Research on the Construction of the Cordillera II
  Wednesday, 10 May 2006

  8:20 AM - 11:20 AM
• REINTERPRETATION OF THE TACT SEISMIC PROFILE AND THE CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE BROOKS RANGE
  16 AAPG/GSA: The Brooks Range Orogen I: A Symposium in Honor of Gil Mull
  Tuesday, 9 May 2006

  8:00 AM - 11:20 AM
• FRONTAL DETACHMENT FOLDS ON ALASKA'S NORTH SLOPE
  16 AAPG/GSA: The Brooks Range Orogen I: A Symposium in Honor of Gil Mull
  Tuesday, 9 May 2006

  8:00 AM - 11:20 AM
• TIMING OF BROOKS RANGE AND NORTH SLOPE UPLIFT AND DENUDATION: A SUMMARY OF THE FISSION-TRACK RESULTS
  16 AAPG/GSA: The Brooks Range Orogen I: A Symposium in Honor of Gil Mull
  Tuesday, 9 May 2006

  8:00 AM - 11:20 AM
• THE CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE BROOKS RANGE OROGENIC BELT—THE BACKBONE OF ALASKA
  15 T3. Shallowing and Steepening Subduction Zones IV
  Friday, 7 April 2006

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
• BASEMENT-INVOLVED FORELAND DEFORMATION IN NORTHEASTERN ALASKA—STRUCTURAL STYLE, CORDILLERAN ANALOGS, AND TECTONIC DRIVERS
  15 T3. Shallowing and Steepening Subduction Zones IV
  Friday, 7 April 2006

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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2005

• CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE AND DEFORMATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BACKBONE OF ALASKA: THE BROOKS RANGE OROGENIC BELT
  T253 The Backbone of America from Patagonia to Alaska: Plateau Uplift, Shallow Subduction, and Ridge Collision
  Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• BASEMENT-INVOLVED DEFORMATION OF THE NORTHEASTERN BROOKS RANGE FOOTHILLS AND ARCTIC COASTAL PLAIN, ALASKA – FAR-FIELD OROGENIC RESPONSE TO SOUTHERN ALASKAN COLLISIONAL TECTONICS
  T253 The Backbone of America from Patagonia to Alaska: Plateau Uplift, Shallow Subduction, and Ridge Collision
  Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• TECTONICS OF LATE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS EXTENSIONAL BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE VIZCAINO-CEDROS REGION, BAJA CALIFORNIA AND PROVENANCE LINKAGE TO THE GUERRERO TERRANE OF MAINLAND MEXICO
  5 Tectonics I
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY OF BAJA CALIFORNIA TRIASSIC OPHIOLITES; A SOUTHERN PERSPECTIVE OF ALTA CALIFORNIA OPHIOLITE TERRANES
  36 Ophiolites, Batholiths, and Regional Geology I: A Session in Honor of Cliff Hopson
  Sunday, 1 May 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:10 PM
• GAS AND OIL PLAYS RELATED TO FRONTAL THRUSTS AND FOLDS OF THE BROOKS RANGE FOOTHILLS AND ARCTIC COASTAL PLAIN, CENTRAL NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA
  40 Alaskan Energy Resources: New Assessments and Related Geological, Geophysical, and Geochemical Studies (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 May 2005

  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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2004

• THE BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA: THE CONSEQUENCE OF FOUR DISTINCT TECTONIC EVENTS
  T112 Whence the Mountains? New Developments in the Tectonic Evolution of Orogenic Belts: Celebrating the Dynamic Career of Raymond A. Price at the 50-Year Mark II
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• THE BROOKS RANGE AND THE CANADIAN ROCKIES—A STRUCTURAL COMPARISON
  T83 Whence the Mountains? New Developments in the Tectonic Evolution of Orogenic Belts: Celebrating the Dynamic Career of Raymond A. Price at the 50-Year Mark I
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE CIRCUM-ARCTIC REGION: SINGLE-GRAIN U-PB DATING OF DETRITAL ZIRCON POPULATIONS FROM TRIASSIC SANDSTONES IN NE RUSSIA AND COMPARISON TO ALASKA AND CANADA
  6 Tectonics I: The Cordillera, from the Canada Basin to Southern Sierra Nevada and Basin and Range
  Sunday, 7 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2003

• EXTENSIONAL TECTONISM AND TERRANE DISPERSION IN THE CORDILLERA—EXAMPLES FROM NORTHERN ALASKA AND BAJA CALIFORNIA
  15 New Insights from Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Sedimentology on Accreted Terranes of Western North America II
  Tuesday, 1 April 2003

  2:15 PM - 4:50 PM

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2002

• SUPERPOSED COAXIAL OROGENS IN THE BROOKS RANGE FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT, ALASKA
  T29 Nonconventional Fold-Thrust Belts: Assessing the Spectrum of Variation in a Structural Style
  Sunday, 27 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• TERTIARY FRONTAL STRUCTURES OF THE BROOKIAN OROGEN BENEATH THE ARCTIC COASTAL PLAIN AND OFFSHORE NORTHERN ALASKA
  T29 Nonconventional Fold-Thrust Belts: Assessing the Spectrum of Variation in a Structural Style
  Sunday, 27 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2001

• APPLICATION OF REGIONAL STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATIONS TO OIL AND GAS ASSESSMENTS OF FEDERAL LANDS IN THE FRONTAL BROOKIAN DEFORMED BELT OF ALASKA'S NORTH SLOPE
  T148 Fossil Fuel on Federal Land
  Wednesday, 7 November 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM