Session No. 181 Tuesday, October 29, 2002

1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Colorado Convention Center: C108/110/112
T110. Rocky Mountains IV: Tectonics, Climate Change, and the Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, and Western Great Plains
Margaret E. McMillan and Catherine Riihimaki, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
181-11:30 PM LATE CRETACEOUS-CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS: CHAPIN, Charles E., New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 87801, chapin@gis.nmt.edu.
181-21:45 PM LARAMIDE RANGE MORPHOLOGY AND GEOMORPHIC IMPLICATIONS: SAFRAN, Elizabeth B.1, GILBERT, Graham J.1, ANDERSON, Robert S.2, RIIHIMAKI, Catherine2, and ZELLERS, Niels A.1, (1) Environmental Studies, Lewis and Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Portland, OR 97219, safran@lclark.edu, (2) Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
181-32:00 PM LATE CENOZOIC GLACIAL AND FLUVIAL INCISION OF LARAMIDE RANGES: ANDERSON, Robert S.1, RIIHIMAKI, Catherine A.1, SAFRAN, Elizabeth B.2, and STOCK, Greg3, (1) Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, rsand@es.ucsc.edu, (2) Environmental Studies, Lewis and Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Portland, OR 97219, (3) Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
181-42:15 PM MORPHOLOGY OF THE GRANITE MOUNTAINS, WYOMING, AS AN ANALOGUE FOR PRE-EXHUMATION LARAMIDE RANGES: RIIHIMAKI, Catherine A.1, ANDERSON, Robert S.1, and SAFRAN, Elizabeth B.2, (1) Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, riihimak@es.ucsc.edu, (2) Environmental Studies, Lewis and Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Portland, OR 97219
181-52:30 PM THE UPPER MIOCENE MOONSTONE FORMATION OF CENTRAL WYOMING: LINKING VERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY WITH POST-LARAMIDE TECTONISM: SCOTT, Jessica W., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3006, jwscott@uwyo.edu and CHAMBERLAIN, Kevin, Geology & Geophysics Department, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3006
181-62:45 PM LATE CENOZOIC RECORD OF CLIMATIC AND TECTONIC CHANGES AT THE JUNCTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO PLATEAU, SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AND CENTRAL RIO GRANDE RIFT: CONNELL, Sean D., New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Rscs, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 2808 Central Av. SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, connell@gis.edu and LOVE, David W., New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Rscs, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801
181-73:00 PM A LATE PLEISTOCENE TO RECENT GLACIAL AND PERIGLACIAL RECORD FROM THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, NORTHERN NEW MEXICO: FAWCETT, Peter J., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, fawcett@unm.edu and ARMOUR, Jake, 805 Jefferson St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110-6205
 3:15 PM Break
181-83:30 PM POST-LARAMIDE TECTONICS OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT GREAT PLAINS AS INDICATED BY LATE EOCENE TO RECENT DRAINAGE PATTERNS IN COLORADO AND SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING: EVANOFF, Emmett, Museum, Univ of Colorado, 265 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, evanoff@stripe.colorado.edu.
181-93:45 PM MIDDLE CENOZOIC QUIESCENCE AND LATE CENOZOIC EXHUMATION-HOW BASE-LEVEL CHANGE THROUGH DRAINGE DEVELOPMENT AND EPEIROGENESIS HAS SCULPTED THE WEST: PEDERSON, Joel L., Geology Department, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT 84322, bolo@cc.usu.edu and PAZZAGLIA, Frank J., Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Lehigh Univ, Bethlehem, PA 18015
181-104:00 PM LONG-TERM EROSION RATES DERIVED FROM 10BE IN SEDIMENT FROM SMALL CATCHMENTS, NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND SOUTHERN WYOMING: DETHIER, David P.1, OUIMET, Will1, BIERMAN, Paul2, and FINKEL, Robert C.3, (1) Department of Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, ddethier@williams.edu, (2) Geology, Univ of Vermont, Perkins Hall, Rm. 001, Burlington, VT 05405, (3) Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, MS L-202, Livermore, CA 94550
181-114:15 PM COMPARISON OF LONG-TERM RATES OF INCISION ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN OROGENIC PLATEAU: MCMILLAN, Margaret E. and HELLER, Paul L., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3006, Laramie, WY 82071, mcmillan@uwyo.edu
181-124:30 PM AGE AND TECTONICS OF MIDDLE TERTIARY BASALTIC VOLCANISM AND EFFECTS ON THE LANDSCAPE OF WEST-CENTRAL MONTANA: REYNOLDS, Mitchell W., U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 913, Denver Federal Ctr, Denver, CO 80225, mwreynol@usgs.gov, MIGGINS, Daniel P., USGS, Box 25046, MS 913, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, and SNEE, Lawrence W., U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 974, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
181-134:45 PM CENOZOIC ALTITUDES AND PALEOBOTANY OF WESTERN-INTERIOR UNITED STATES: HAMILTON, Warren B., Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, whamilto@mines.edu.
181-145:00 PM PLIO-PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS INDICATE A PLEISTOCENE UPLIFT OF GRAND TETONS: LEOPOLD, Estella B., Department of Botany, Univ of Washington, Box 355325, Seattle, WA 98195, eleopold@aol.com and LOVE, J. David, Geology, Univ of Wyoming, Box 3007 University Station, Laramie, WY 82071
 5:15 PM Discussion

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