Cordilleran Section - 101st Annual Meeting (April 29–May 1, 2005)
Session No. 21 Saturday, April 30, 2005
8:00 AM-11:40 AM, Fairmont Hotel: Gold

S2. Tectonics of the U.S. Cordillera, SWEAT Connection and Beyond II: A Session in Honor of Eldridge Moores

Yildirim Dilek and John Wakabayashi, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
21-18:00 AM AN OVERVIEW OF THE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: DAVIS, James R., Sequim, WA 98382, jamadi@att.net.
21-28:20 AM THE MOJAVE-SONORA MEGASHEAR AND TECTONICS OF THE CORDILLERAS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA: ANDERSON, Thomas H., Geology and Planetary Science, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, taco@pitt.edu and SILVER, Leon T., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
21-38:40 AM EVOLUTION OF THE FOOTHILLS TERRANE, SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA: PROGRESS AND CONTINUING CHALLENGES: DAY, Howard W., Department of Geology, U. C. Davis, Davis, CA 95616, day@geology.ucdavis.edu, BICKFORD, M.E., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244, and SPRINGER, Robert K., Department of Geology, Brandon Univ, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9, Canada
21-49:00 AM ARC ORIGIN OF FRANCISCAN HIGH-GRADE METAMOPRPHIC ROCKS CONSISTENT WITH TECTONIC MODEL OF MOORES (1970): BASU, Asish R., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, abasu@earth.rochester.edu and WAKABAYASHI, John, 1329 Sheridan Lane, Hayward, CA 94544-4332
21-59:20 AM UPLIFT OF COHERENT BLUESCHIST TERRANES IN THE EASTERN BELT OF THE FRANCISCAN COMPLEX OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: CLOOS, Mark and COPELAND, William B., Geological Sciences, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, cloos@mail.utexas.edu
 9:40 AM Break
21-610:00 AM HIGH-GRADE TECTONIC BLOCKS FROM NEW IDRIA SERPENTINITE BODY, DIABLO RANGE, CALIFORNIA: TWO-STAGE EXHUMATION: TSUJIMORI, Tatsuki, LIOU, Juhn G., and COLEMAN, Robert G., Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, tatsukix@pangea.Stanford.EDU
21-710:20 AM ACTIVE CRUSTAL SHORTENING IN THE SOUTHWESTERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA: UNRUH, Jeffrey, William Lettis & Associates, Inc, 1777 Botelho Drive, Suite 262, Walnut Creek, CA 94596, unruh@lettis.com and MOORES, Eldridge, Department of Geology, Univ of California, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
21-810:40 AM STRUCTURE AND CHEMISTRY OF TERTIARY VOLCANICS PICACHO STATE RECREATION AREA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TRANSFER OF BAJA TO THE PACIFIC PLATE: GIRTY, Gary H.1, NIELSEN, Jennifer L.2, GASCA, Christina3, ROWLAND-SMITH, Andrea3, GRAY, Ryan3, LOVERING, Krissy3, and CAMPBELL, Kerry3, (1) Geological Sciences, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA 92182, ggirty@geology.sdsu.edu, (2) Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 92040, (3) Geological Sciences, San Diego, CA 92182
21-911:00 AM NEOGENE BASINS NEAR RENO, NEVADA RECORD TECTONIC CHANGES ALONG THE SIERRA NEVADA – BASIN AND RANGE TRANSITION ZONE SINCE MID-MIOCENE TIME: TREXLER, J. Jr and CASHMAN, P., Department of Geological Sciences/172, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, trexler@mines.unr.edu
21-1011:20 AM A STRONG LOMA PRIETA FAULT, AS INFERRED FROM THE 1989-1990 LOMA PRIETA AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE: TWISS, Robert J., Univ California - Davis, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616-8605, twiss@geology.ucdavis.edu and UNRUH, Jeffrey R., William Lettis & Associates, Inc, 1777 Botelho Drive, Suite 262, Walnut Creek, CA 94596

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