Cordilleran Section - 101st Annual Meeting (April 29–May 1, 2005)
Session No. 4 Friday, April 29, 2005
8:15 AM-12:00 PM, Fairmont Hotel: Piedmont

S5. Plutons and Their Host Rocks in the Sierra Nevada Batholith: A Forum and Discussion on Magma Emplacement, Magmatic Differentiation, and Pluton Solidification

Drew S. Coleman, William H. Hirt and Aaron S. Yoshinobu, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:15 AM Introductory Remarks
4-18:20 AM MAGMATIC PROCESSES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE TANK: QUESTIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM MID-CRUSTAL PLUTONS: BARNES, Calvin G., Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, Box 41053, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053, cal.barnes@ttu.edu and YOSHINOBU, Aaron S., Dept. of Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053
4-28:40 AM FOSSIL MAGMA SYSTEMS IN ARC CRUST: THE GEOCHRONOLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND FIELD PETROLOGY OF THE TUOLUMNE INTRUSIVE SERIES, SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH: MILLER, Jonathan, BURGESS, Seth, MILLER, Robert, and TERUYA, LeAnne, Department of Geology, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192-0102, jsmiller@email.sjsu.edu
 9:00 AM Open Forum 1
4-39:20 AM PLUTON EMPLACEMENT AND MAGMA CHAMBER PROCESSES – INSIGHTS FROM THE TUOLUMNE INTRUSIVE SUITE: MILLER, Robert B., Dept. of Geology, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192-0102, rmiller@geosun.sjsu.edu, MILLER, Jonathan S., Department of Geology, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192, and PATERSON, Scott R., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740
4-49:40 AM DISTINGUISHING PLUTON EMPLACEMENT MECHANISMS: BARTLEY, John M., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 S. 1460 E., Rm 719, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, jbartley@mines.utah.edu, GLAZNER, Allen, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 3315, Mitchell Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, and COLEMAN, Drew S., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina, CB# 3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
 10:00 AM Open Forum 2
 10:20 AM Break
4-510:40 AM MAGMATIC FABRICS IN PLUTONS: WHAT DO THEY REALLY REPRESENT?: PATERSON, Scott, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, paterson@usc.edu, ZAK, Jiri, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Charles Univ, Czech Republic, Prague, and MILLER, Robert, Department of Geology, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192-0102
 11:00 AM Open Forum 3
4-611:20 AM SOLIDIFICATION, ZONING, AND HOMOGENIZATION IN SIERRAN PLUTONS: SISSON, T.W., U.S. Geol Survey, MS-910, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, tsisson@usgs.gov.
4-711:40 AM SPECULATIONS ON SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH EVOLUTION: GLAZNER, Allen F.1, BARTLEY, John M.2, and OSKIN, Michael E.1, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of North Carolina, CB# 3315, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, afg@unc.edu, (2) Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, 135 S. 1460 E., Rm 719, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

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