2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
Session No. 121 Monday, 17 October 2005
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Salt Palace Convention Center: Ballroom D

T135. Orogenic Plateaus From Top to Bottom

Bradley D. Ritts and Brian K. Horton, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
121-11:30 PM LINKAGES BETWEEN LITHOSPHERIC SHORTENING, MAGMATISM, AND CONTINENTAL PLATEAU FORMATION: DECELLES, Peter G., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, decelles@geo.arizona.edu, ZANDT, George, Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building 1040 E. 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, and DUCEA, Mihai, Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, 1040 E Fourth Street, Tucson, AZ 85721
121-21:50 PM HINTERLAND PLATEAUX AND MEDITERRANEAN-STYLE BACK-ARC BASINS AS AN EVOLUTIONARY SEQUENCE: PLATT, John, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, john.platt@usc.edu
121-32:05 PM THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEFORMATION AND EXHUMATION IN THE CENTRAL ANDEAN PLATEAU, BOLIVIA: MCQUARRIE, Nadine1, BARNES, Jason B.2, and EHLERS, Todd A.2, (1) Department of Geosciences, Princeton Univ, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, nmcq@princeton.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Building, 1100 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
121-42:20 PM GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE FOR POST-10 MA UPLIFT OF THE WESTERN FLANK OF THE CENTRAL ANDES 18°30'-22°S: HOKE, Gregory D.1, ISACKS, Bryan L.1, JORDAN, Teresa E.1, and BLANCO P, Nicolás2, (1) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, gdh7@cornell.edu, (2) Servicio Nacional de Geolgia y Minera, Avenida Santa Maria 0104, Santiago, 0104, Chile
121-52:35 PM EXTENSION IN THE PUNA-ALTIPLANO PLATEAU SINCE 1-2 MA: LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATION, LOWER CRUSTAL FLOW OR GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE?: SCHOENBOHM, Lindsay, Dept. of Geoscience, Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, Columbus, OH 43210, schoenbohm.1@osu.edu and STRECKER, Manfred, Institute for Geosciences, Potsdam University, Postfach 60 15 53, Potsdam, 14415, Germany
121-62:50 PM STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU FROM INDEPTH AND OIL EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS: REVIEW AND PREVIEW: BROWN, Larry D., INSTOC, Cornell Univ, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, brown@geology.cornell.edu
 3:10 PM Break
121-73:25 PM CRUST AND MANTLE DECOUPLING IN SE TIBET: BURCHFIEL, B. Clark1, VAN DER HILST, Robert1, ROYDEN, Leigh H.1, LEV, Einat1, LI, Chang1, STUDNICKI-GIZBERT, Christopher1, and CHEN, Zhiliang2, (1) Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1010 Green Building, Cambridge, MA 02139, bcburch@MIT.EDU, (2) Chengdu Institute of Geology and MIneral Rscs, 82 N-Section, 1st Ring Road, Chengdu, 610082
121-83:45 PM DID THE ALTYN TAGH FAULT EXTEND BEYOND THE TIBETAN PLATEAU?: DARBY, Brian J., Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, bdarby@geol.lsu.edu, RITTS, Bradley D., Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405, YUE, Yongjun, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, and MENG, Qingren, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing, 100029, China
121-94:00 PM MESOZOIC MAGMATISM, METAMORPHISM AND EXHUMATION RECORDED BY THE AMDO BASEMENT, CENTRAL TIBET: GUYNN, Jerome H., KAPP, Paul, PULLEN, Alex, and GEHRELS, George, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building #77, Tucson, AZ 85721, jguynn@geo.arizona.edu
121-104:15 PM RECONSTRUCTING THE CENOZOIC EROSION OF EASTERN TIBET FROM THE MARINE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: CLIFT, Peter D., School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Meston Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE, United Kingdom, pclift@abdn.ac.uk, NGUYEN, Duc Anh, Vietnam Petroleum Institute, Trung Kinh, Yen Hoa, Hanoi, Vietnam, and SUN, Zhen, Key Laboratory of the Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, 164# Xingangxi Road, Guangzhou, 510301, China
121-114:30 PM THE SHEEP PASS FORMATION, NEVADA: A LATE CRETACEOUS TO EOCENE BASIN DEVELOPED ON THE SEVIER PLATEAU: DRUSCHKE, Peter, Dept. Geoscience, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010, druschke@unlv.nevada.edu
121-124:45 PM STABLE ISOTOPE-BASED PALEOELEVATION RECONSTRUCTIONS IN COUPLED BASIN-DETACHMENT SYSTEMS: THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA- A CENOZOIC OROGENIC PLATEAU?: MULCH, Andreas, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA CA 94305, mulch@pangea.Stanford.edu, CHAMBERLAIN, C.P., Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305, and TEYSSIER, Christian, Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
121-135:00 PM TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU AS INFERRED FROM CRUSTAL AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE: GILBERT, Hersh, Department of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona, Gould Simpson, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, hgilbert@geo.arizona.edu, VELASCO, Aaron A., Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, and ZANDT, George, Dept. Geosciences, University of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building #77, 1040 E 4th St, Tucson, AZ 85721
121-145:15 PM COLORADO PLATEAU CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR UPLIFT MECHANISMS: WILSON, David C.1, GRAND, Steve1, ASTER, Rick2, and NI, James3, (1) Geology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, davew@geo.utexas.edu, (2) New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, (3) Dept. of Physics, New Mexico State University, MSC 3D, Las Cruces, NM 88003

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