Session: Sierra Nevada Microplate-Basement and Basins II (Cordilleran Section - 106th Annual Meeting, and Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (27-29 May 2010))

Session No. 30

Friday, 28 May 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Platinum 2 (Marriott Anaheim Hotel)

T1. Sierra Nevada Microplate-Basement and Basins II

Cordilleran Section GSA

Jason Saleeby and Zorka Saleeby, Advocates

Paper #

Start Time

1:30 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:45 PM

BIRTH OF A PLATE BOUNDARY

BUSBY, Cathy J.¹, HAGAN, Jeanette C.², KOERNER, Alice A.², PUTIRKA, Keith³, PLUHAR, Christopher J.⁴ and MELOSH, Ben L.⁵, (1)Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Webb Hall, BLDG 526, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630, (2)Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (3)Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State University - Fresno, 2345 E. San Ramon Ave, MS/MH24, Fresno, CA 93720, (4)Earth & Environmental Sciences Dept, California State University, Fresno, 2576 E. San Ramon Ave., Mail Stop ST-24, Fresno, CA 93740, (5)Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University Street, Rm 238, Montreal, QC H3A 0E8, Canada, cathy@crustal.ucsb.edu, cathy@crustal.ucsb.edu

2:00 PM

IS PLIOCENE MAGMATISM IN THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA RANGE LINKED TO LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATION OR TO THE ANCESTRAL CASCADE RANGE?

ROSENBERG, Jessica E. and GLAZNER, Allen F., Geological Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3315, jerose2@gmail.com, jerose2@gmail.com

2:15 PM

DEPOSITIONAL AGES, PROVENANCE, AND PALEO-DRAINAGE PATTERNS FROM DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF EOCENE-OLIGOCENE FLUVIAL SEDIMENTS (“AURIFEROUS GRAVELS”) IN THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA

CASSEL, Elizabeth J., GRAHAM, Stephan A. and MAATTA, Sara C., Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 320, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, ecassel@stanford.edu, ecassel@stanford.edu

2:30 PM

PALEOTOPOGRAPHY OF THE CENTRAL - NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR UPLIFT AND TILTING OF THE SIERRAN BLOCK

CECIL, M. Robinson¹, DUCEA, Mihai N.², REINERS, Peter W.², GEHRELS, G.E.², MULCH, Andreas³, ALLEN, Charlotte M.⁴ and CAMPBELL, Ian H.⁴, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, California State University Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St, Northridge, CA 91130-8266, (2)Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, (3)Institute of Geology, Universität Hannover, Callinstr. 30, Hannover, 30167, Germany, (4)Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National Univ, Canberra, 0200, Australia, robinson.cecil@csun.edu, robinson.cecil@csun.edu

2:45 PM

Break

3:00 PM

TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS (CALIFORNIA): EVIDENCE FOR UPLIFT AND BASIN FORMATION

FIGUEROA, Andrea M. and KNOTT, Jeffrey R., Department of Geological Sciences, California State Univ, Fullerton, Box 6850, Fullerton, CA 92834, a_m_stein@hotmail.com, a_m_stein@hotmail.com

3:15 PM

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE CENOZOIC HISTORY OF THE KERN RIVER, SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA

KLECK, Wallace D., 23940 Basin Harbor Court, Tehachapi, CA 93561, wkleck@sbcglobal.net, wkleck@sbcglobal.net

3:30 PM

Open Forum On Question Posed By Conveners: What are the common and distinct features of landscape and basin evolution across the northern, central and southern reaches of the Sierra Nevada Microplate, and what might be the origins of these common or distinct features?

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