2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
Session No. 23 Sunday, 16 October 2005
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Salt Palace Convention Center: Ballroom D

T136. Out of the Tethys: The Making of Asia

Rasoul Sorkhabi and Ezat Heydari, Presiding
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23-18:00 AM MAKING SENSE OF CAOS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN INTEGRATED GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATION OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC SYSTEM (= ALTAIDS): YIN, An1, BRIGGS, Stephanie M.1, MANNING, Craig E.1, KELTY, T.K.2, CHEN, Z.L.3, and DASH, Batulzii4, (1) Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, yin@ess.ucla.edu, (2) Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA 90840, (3) Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China, (4) Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, 46520, Mongolia
23-28:15 AM STRUCTURAL, PETROLOGIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC RESULTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE ERTIX THRUST IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL CHINESE ALTAI: BRIGGS, Stephanie M.1, YIN, An1, MANNING, Craig E.1, and CHEN, Z.L.2, (1) Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, sbriggs@ess.ucla.edu, (2) Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
23-38:30 AM UNRAVELING THE COMPLEX RECORD OF GROWTH AND DEFORMATION IN ASIA: DETAILS FROM THE EASTERN GOBI ALTAI, SOUTHWESTERN MONGOLIA: LAMB, Melissa A.1, BADARCH, Gombosuren2, and NAVRATIL, Tiffani F.1, (1) Geology Department, Univ of St. Thomas, OWS 153, 2115 Summit Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105, malamb@stthomas.edu, (2) Institute Geology & Mineral Resources, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 63 Peace Ave, PO Box 118, Ulaan Baatar, 210351, Mongolia
23-48:45 AM DETRITAL-ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE HANGAY-HENTEY BASIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TECTONICS OF THE MONGOL-OKHOTSK OCEAN, MONGOLIA: KELTY, T.K.1, YIN, A.2, DASH, B.3, GEHRELS, George4, BEI, Xu5, RICE, K.1, and KATSUK, O.1, (1) Dept. of Geological Sci, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90840, tkelty@csulb.edu, (2) Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, (3) Geology, Mongolian Technical University, PO Box 46/520, Ulaan Bator, 210646, (4) Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (5) Dept of Geology, Peking Univeristy, Beijing, 100081
23-59:00 AM CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHERN ORDOS PLATEAU, NORTH CHINA: ZHANG, Ke, ZOU, Heping, CAI, Jianbo, and LIU, Shining, Department of Geosciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, 135, West Xingang Road, Guangzhou, 510275, China, eeszke@zsu.edu.cn
23-69:15 AM DIACHRONOUS HISTORIES FOR THE DABIE-SULU OROGEN FROM HIGH-TEMPERATURE GEOCHRONOLOGY: LEECH, Mary L., Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132-4163, leech@sfsu.edu, WEBB, Laura E., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244-1070, and YANG, T.N., Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100037, China
23-79:30 AM ABOR VOLCANICS: SLAB WINDOW VOLCANISM AT THE INDIA-ASIA COLLISION ZONE: SRIMAL, Neptune, Florida International Univ, 3000 NE 151st St, Miami, FL 33181-3605, srimal@fiu.edu
23-89:45 AM ANCIENT DIETS INDICATE SIGNIFICANT UPLIFT OF SOUTHERN TIBET AFTER 7 MYR AGO: WANG, Yang1, DENG, Tao2, and BIASATTI, Dana1, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, 108 Carraway Bldg, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4100, ywang@magnet.fsu.edu, (2) Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 643, Beijing, 10004, China
23-910:00 AM RESOLVING "OUTBOARD" EQUATORIAL PERI-GONDWANALAND DURING THE EARLY PALEOZOIC: A HIMALAYAN PERSPECTIVE: HUGHES, Nigel C., Earth Sciences, Univ of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92507, nigel.hughes@ucr.edu, MYROW, Paul M., Geology Department, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, and JIANG, Ganqing, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154
23-1010:15 AM ARCHAEOCYATHAN REEFS WITHIN A SILICICLASTIC SUCCESSION: NEW DISCOVERY IN THE CAMBRIAN (TOYONIAN) LALUN FORMATION OF NORTHERN IRAN, THE PROTO-PALEOTETHYS PASSIVE MARGIN OF NORTHERN GONDWANA: LASEMI, Yaghoob and AMIN-RASOOLI, Hadi, Department of Geology, Teacher Training University, No. 49 Mofateh Ave, Tehran, Iran, ylasemi@yahoo.com
23-1110:30 AM NEW STRATIGRAPHIC AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC DATA FOR THE TETHYAN OF BHUTAN: MYROW, Paul M., Geology Department, Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, pmyrow@coloradocollege.edu, HUGHES, Nigel, Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, 1432 Geology Building, Riverside, CA 92507, FANNING, Mark, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National Univ, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, BHARGAVA, O.N., Geological Survey of India, 103 Sector 7, Panchkula, Harayana, 134109, India, and TANGRI, S.K., Geological Survey of India, 3, Sector 33, Chandigarh, 134180, India
23-1210:45 AM NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE ANDAMAN FOREARC RIDGE: CARTER, Andrew, School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck and University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, a.carter@ucl.ac.uk and ALLEN, Ruth, Department of Environmental Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
23-1311:00 AM HIMALAYAN AND ZAGROS FORELAND BASINS: PLATE TECTONIC PARALLELS, STRUCTURAL VARIETIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR HYDROCARBON PROSPECTIVITY: SORKHABI, Rasoul, Energy and Geoscience Institute, Univ of Utah, 423 Wakara Way, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84108-3537, rsorkhabi@egi.utah.edu
23-1411:15 AM SUPERSEQUENCE FRAMEWORK AND THE RELATIVE SEA-CHANGE OF THE PHANEROZOIC SEDIMENTARY COVER OF THE PERSIAN PLATFORM: HEYDARI, Ezat, Department of Physics, Atmospheric Sciences, and General Science, Jackson State University, P.O. Box 17660, 1400 Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217, ezat.heydari@ccaix.jsums.edu
23-1511:30 AM REVISED AGE OF THE PROXIMAL BAKHTIYARI FORMATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE HIGH ZAGROS: FAKHARI, Mohammad1, AXEN, Gary J.1, HORTON, Brian K.1, AMINI, Abdolhossein2, HASSANZADEH, Jamshid2, GHAVIDEL-SYOOKI, Mohammad3, and HOSSEINI, S.A.3, (1) Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, mfakhari@ess.ucla.edu, (2) Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, (3) Geological Research Laboratries, National Iranian Oil Company, NIOC #8 Central Building, Yaghma Alley, Jomhoori Ave, Tehran, PO Box 1065, Iran
23-1611:45 AM PRELIMINARY GEOCHEMICAL RESULTS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MAIKOP SERIES, SHAMAKHA-GOBUSTAN OIL PROVINCE, EASTERN AZERBAIJAN: HUDSON, Samuel M.1, JOHNSON, Cari1, ROWE, Harold D.2, EFENDIYEVA, Mila3, FEYZULLAEV, Akper3, and ALIYEV, Chingiz3, (1) Department of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 South 1460 East, WBB 719, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, sam_84093@yahoo.com, (2) Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, (3) Geological Institute of Azerbiajan (GIA), 29 A, H. JAVID Pr, Baku, 370143, Azerbaijan

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