Cordilleran Section (104th Annual) and Rocky Mountain Section (60th Annual) Joint Meeting (19–21 March 2008)

March 19 – March 21, 2008 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Meeting Code: 2008CD
Sessions (35)
# Title Program Type Papers
1 Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, and Volcanology Technical Sessions — 12
2 Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, and Archaeological Geology Technical Sessions — 9
3 The Neoproterozoic and Lower Paleozoic of the Southern Great Basin and Eastern Mojave Desert Provinces: A Session to Honor the Life of John Cooper SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 11
4 Pennsylvanian to Early Triassic Deformation and Sedimentation in the Western United States THEME SESSIONS — 11
5 Paleontology/Sedimentology/Stratigraphy (Posters) Technical Sessions — 36
6 The Klamath Mountains Province—500 Million Years of Crustal Accretion and Exhumation SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 13
7 Causes and Consequences of Laramide Tectonics in the Forearc, Arc, and Backarc of the Southwestern United States THEME SESSIONS — 13
8 Rancholabrean Paleoecology of Western North America THEME SESSIONS — 11
9 Mineralization in the Western United States THEME SESSIONS — 9
10 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters) Technical Sessions — 19
11 Detrital Zircon Studies in Western North America (Posters) THEME SESSIONS — 18
12 Paleontology/Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Technical Sessions — 12
13 Seismic Hazards Summit–Southern Nevada Region I SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 12
14 Mafic-Silicic Magmatism: Crystallization Histories, Magma Interactions, and Eruption Mechanisms I SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 11
15 Proterozoic Tectonics of the Southwestern U.S.: Origin and History of the Lithosphere: From Continental Assembly, to Breakup, to Influence of Old Structures on Younger Tectonic Events. THEME SESSIONS — 11
16 Undergraduate Research (Posters) THEME SESSIONS — 43
17 Seismic Hazards Summit–Southern Nevada Region II SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 11
18 Mafic-Silicic Magmatism: Crystallization Histories, Magma Interactions, and Eruption Mechanisms II SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 9
19 Driving Mechanisms and Structural Styles of Synconvergent Extension THEME SESSIONS — 14
20 Detrital Zircon Studies in Western North America THEME SESSIONS — 12
21 Environmental/Engineering Geology, and Hydrogeology (Posters) Technical Sessions — 8
22 Geoscience Education (Posters) Technical Sessions — 3
23 Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, and Archaeological Geology (Posters) Technical Sessions — 8
24 Importance of Outdoor Education to Earth Sciences (Posters) THEME SESSIONS — 9
25 Long Distance Transport of Las Vegas: Recent Research Along a Transect with Major Neogene Extension (Posters) THEME SESSIONS — 8
26 Environmental/Engineering Geology, and Hydrogeology I Technical Sessions — 9
27 Structural Geology and Tectonics I Technical Sessions — 12
28 Geomorphic Responses to Holocene Climate Change in the Western USA I SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 10
29 New Developments in Earth Science Education THEME SESSIONS — 12
30 Igneous/Metamorphic Petrology, and Volcanology (Posters) Technical Sessions — 18
31 Driving Mechanisms and Structural Styles of Synconvergent Extension (Posters) THEME SESSIONS — 7
32 Mineralization in the Western United States (Posters) THEME SESSIONS — 7
33 Environmental/Engineering Geology, and Hydrogeology II Technical Sessions — 8
34 Structural Geology and Tectonics II Technical Sessions — 10
35 Geomorphic Responses to Holocene Climate Change in the Western USA II SYMPOSIA SESSIONS — 9