2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)

Session No. 121
Monday, 17 October 2005: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

T135. Orogenic Plateaus From Top to Bottom

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geophysics Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division

 

Bradley D. Ritts and Brian K. Horton, Advocates
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1:30 PM
LINKAGES BETWEEN LITHOSPHERIC SHORTENING, MAGMATISM, AND CONTINENTAL PLATEAU FORMATION
DECELLES, Peter G., Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 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, decelles@geo.arizona.edu, decelles@geo.arizona.edu
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1:50 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, john.platt@usc.edu
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2:05 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, (2)Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Building, 1100 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, nmcq@princeton.edu, nmcq@princeton.edu
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2:20 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, (2)Servicio Nacional de Geolgia y Minera, Avenida Santa Maria 0104, Santiago, 0104, Chile, gdh7@cornell.edu, gdh7@cornell.edu
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2:35 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 and STRECKER, Manfred, Institute for Geosciences, Potsdam University, Postfach 60 15 53, Potsdam, 14415, Germany, schoenbohm.1@osu.edu, schoenbohm.1@osu.edu
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2:50 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, brown@geology.cornell.edu
 
3:10 PM
Break
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3:25 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, (2)Chengdu Institute of Geology and MIneral Rscs, 82 N-Section, 1st Ring Road, Chengdu, 610082, bcburch@MIT.EDU, bcburch@MIT.EDU
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3:45 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, 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, bdarby@geol.lsu.edu, bdarby@geol.lsu.edu
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4:00 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, jguynn@geo.arizona.edu
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4:15 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, 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, pclift@abdn.ac.uk, pclift@abdn.ac.uk
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4:30 PM
THE SHEEP PASS FORMATION, NEVADA: A LATE CRETACEOUS TO EOCENE BASIN DEVELOPED ON THE SEVIER PLATEAU
DRUSCHKE, Peter, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 South Maryland Parkway, Box 454010, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010, druschke@unlv.nevada.edu, druschke@unlv.nevada.edu
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4:45 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, 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, mulch@pangea.Stanford.edu, mulch@pangea.Stanford.edu
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5:00 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, 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, hgilbert@geo.arizona.edu, hgilbert@geo.arizona.edu
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5:15 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, (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, davew@geo.utexas.edu, davew@geo.utexas.edu
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