2004 Denver Annual Meeting (November 7–10, 2004)
Session No. 18 Sunday, November 7, 2004
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 103/105

T88. Thrust Belts and Plateaus: The Anatomy of Convergent Systems

Delores M. Robinson and Nadine McQuarrie, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
18-18:00 AM THE SEISMIC STRUCTURE OF THE EURASIAN-ARABIAN COLLISIONAL BELT: SANDVOL, Eric, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Missouri, 101 Geology Building, Columbia, MO 65211, sandvole@missouri.edu.
18-28:15 AM OXYGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR RAPID LATE MIOCENE UPLIFT OF THE ALTIPLANO, BOLIVIA: GARZIONE, Carmala N., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, garzione@earth.rochester.edu and LIBARKIN, Julie C., Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701
18-38:30 AM EROSIONAL CONTROL OF PLATEAU EVOLUTION IN THE CENTRAL ANDES: STRECKER, Manfred R.1, CARRAPA, Barbara1, HILLEY, George E.2, SCHOENBOHM, Lindsay M.1, and SOBEL, Edward R.1, (1) Institut fuer Geowissenschaften, Universitaet Potsdam, Potsdam, 14415, strecker@geo.uni-potsdam.de, (2) Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Univ of California, 377 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
18-48:45 AM EOCENE-MIOCENE PALEOALTIMETRY OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU: CURRIE, Brian S., Department of Geology, Miami Univ, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, curriebs@muohio.edu and ROWLEY, David B., Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
18-59:00 AM FIRST-CLASS AND SECOND-CLASS OROGENIC PLATEAUS: CLARK, Marin K., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Mailstop 100-23, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, mclark@gps.caltech.edu.
18-69:15 AM Paper Withdrawn
18-79:30 AM THE GANGDESE RETROARC FOLD-THRUST BELT REVEALED: KAPP, P.1, DECELLES, P.G.1, LEIER, Andrew1, HE, Shundong1, and DING, Lin2, (1) Department of Geosciences, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, pkapp@geo.arizona.edu, (2) Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029
18-89:45 AM EVALUATING UNCERTAINTY IN BALANCED CROSS-SECTIONS: A CRITICAL STEP FOR RELATING THRUST-BELTS TO PLATEAU UPLIFT: ALLMENDINGER, Richard W., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell Univ, Snee Hall, Ithaca, New York, 14853, Ithaca, NY 14853, rwa1@cornell.edu.
 10:00 AM Break
18-910:15 AM TRANSITIONS BETWEEN FLEXURAL AND AIRY ISOSTASY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN CONTINENTAL PLATEAUS: HORTON, Brian K., Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, horton@ess.ucla.edu.
18-1010:30 AM THE ROLE OF THE MANTLE LITHOSPHERE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVERGENT SYSTEMS: COMPARISON OF THE ANDEAN AND HIMALAYAN-TIBETAN OROGENS: ZANDT, George, Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building 1040 E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, zandt@geo.arizona.edu and DECELLES, Peter G., Department of Geosciences, The Unversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
18-1110:45 AM CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BASIN EVOLUTION IN THE LHASA TERRANE OF SOUTHERN TIBET: RESPONSES TO TERRANE COLLISION, ARC-TRENCH TECTONICS, AND PROGRESSIVE UNDERTHRUSTING OF GREATER INDIA: DECELLES, P.G., KAPP, P., LEIER, Andrew, QUADE, Jay, and FAN, Majie, Department of Geosciences, The Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, decelles@geo.arizona.edu
18-1211:00 AM SOUTH-DIRECTED BACKTHRUSTING BENEATH THE EASTERN KUNLUN SHAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR MECHANISMS OF PLATEAU GROWTH: MCRIVETTE, Michael W.1, YIN, An1, and CHEN, Xuan-Hua2, (1) Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Univ of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, mmcrivet@ucla.edu, (2) Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
18-1311:15 AM NEOGENE MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE GUIDE BASIN: MID-MIOCENE CLOCKWISE ROTATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR UPLIFT OF THE NE TIBETAN PLATEAU: YAN, Maodu1, VAN DER VOO, Rob2, FANG, Xiao-min3, PARES, Josep M.4, REA, David K.4, and SONG, Chunhui5, (1) dept. geological sciences, Univ of michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, maoduyan@umich.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (3) Institute of Tibetan Plateau Rsch, CAS, P.O. Box 2871, Beilin North Str., Beijing 100085, China, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an, Shanxi 710075, China, Beijing, 100085, China, (4) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, (5) State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environ, CAS, Xi’an, 710075, China
18-1411:30 AM CRUSTAL BALANCE AND CRUSTAL FLUX FROM SHORTENING ESTIMATES IN THE CENTRAL ANDES: HINDLE, David1, KLEY, Jonas2, ONCKEN, Onno3, and SOBOLEV, Stephan3, (1) Geological Sciences, Michigan State Univ, 206 Nat Sci Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, hindle@msu.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, Universitat Jena, Burgweg 11, Jena, Germany, (3) GFZ Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
18-1511:45 AM EVIDENCE FOR A RELEASING BEND AT THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE PUNA PLATEAU, ARGENTINE ANDES: BALDWIN, Austin K., Jackson School of Geosciences, Univ of Texas at Austin, 4505 Duval St, Apt 180, Austin, TX 78751, jokulhlaup@webmail.utexas.edu and MARRETT, Randall A., Univ Texas - Austin, Dept Geological Sciences, C1140, Austin, TX 78712-1101

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