Session No. 3
Sunday, 27 October 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Mile High Ballroom 4CD (Colorado Convention Center)

P10. Paleotopography

GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Geophysics Division

 

Mark T. Brandon and Frank J. Pazzaglia, Conveners
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:05 AM
A PRIMER ON PALEOTOPOGRAPHY
BRANDON, Mark T., Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, mark.brandon@yale.edu
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8:25 AM
APPALACHIAN PALEOTOPOGRAPHY
PAZZAGLIA, Frank J., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 1 W Packer Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18015 and BERTI, Claudio, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, 1 W. Packer Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18015, fjp3@Lehigh.edu
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8:45 AM
INTERPRETING THE EVOLUTION OF EARTH'S SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY IN TERMS OF MANTLE CONVECTION
FORTE, Alessandro M.1, MOUCHA, Robert2, ROWLEY, David B.3, GLISOVIC, Petar1, MITROVICA, Jerry X.4, SIMMONS, Nathan A.5 and GRAND, Stephen P.6, (1)Geotop, Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Atmosphère, Université du Québec à Montréal, CP 8888, succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada, (2)Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244, (3)Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, (4)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, (5)Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550-9234, (6)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712, forte.alessandro@uqam.ca
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9:05 AM
THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND SURFACE UPLIFT: USING LARGE DATASETS TO MEASURE PALEOTOPOGRAPHY (AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SIERRA NEVADA)
MCPHILLIPS, Devin, Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Lab, Syracuse, NY 13244, devin.mcphillips@gmail.com
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9:25 AM
CONSTRAINTS ON AN ANCIENT GRAND CANYON AND THE TOPOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO PLATEAU FROM THERMOCHRONOMETRY
FLOWERS, Rebecca, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Campus Box 399, 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309 and FARLEY, Kenneth A., Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, rebecca.flowers@colorado.edu
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9:45 AM
TECTONICS FROM TOPOGRAPHY USING FORMAL LINEAR INVERSION: THEORY AND APPLICATION TO THE INYO MOUNTAIN RANGE, CA
GOREN, Liran, Department of Earth Sceinces, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland, FOX, Matthew, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley and Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA 94709 and WILLETT, Sean D., Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland, liran.goren@erdw.ethz.ch
 
10:05 AM
Break
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10:20 AM
A SIMPLE MODEL FOR THE TOPOGRAPHIC AND SEDIMENTARY EVOLUTION OF A DECAYING MOUNTAIN RANGE AND ITS FORELAND
TUCKER, Gregory E., CIRES and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Campus Box 399, Boulder, CO 80309 and VAN DER BEEK, Peter, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France, Grenoble, 38041, France, gtucker@colorado.edu
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10:40 AM
FROM RAINDROPS TO MOUNTAINTOPS: TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROLS ON THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF PRECIPITATION
ANDERS, Alison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1301 W Green St, Urbana, IL 61801, amanders@illinois.edu
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11:00 AM
PALEOTOPOGRAPHY FROM STABLE ISOTOPES AND CLUMPED ISOTOPE THERMOMETRY
HUNTINGTON, Katharine W., Dept. Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, kate1@uw.edu
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11:20 AM
ORGANIC MOLECULAR RECORDS OF PALEOELEVATION: APPLICATIONS, UNCERTAINTIES AND PITFALLS
HREN, Michael T., Center for Integrative Geosciences, Dept. Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, mhren@uconn.edu
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11:40 AM
PALEOTOPOGRAPHY AND THE DIVERSIFICATION OF FRESHWATER FISHES
NEAR, Thomas J., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 370 ESC, New Haven, CT 06520, thomas.near@yale.edu