GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 55
Sunday, 25 September 2016: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Mile High Ballroom 3B (Colorado Convention Center)

T217. Earth History in the Broadest Context—Tectonics, Impacts, Mass Extinctions, and Big History: Celebrating the Contributions of Walter Alvarez

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Sedimentary Geology Division
David H. Shimabukuro and Philippe Claeys, Advocates
1:30 PM
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALVAREZ K-PG BOUNDARY ASTEROID IMPACT HYPOTHESIS FOR IMPACT CRATERING RESEARCH (Invited Presentation)
KOEBERL, Christian, Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria, also of the Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, christian.koeberl@univie.ac.at
1:50 PM
TSUNAMIGENIC RECORD OF THE CHICXULUB IMPACT IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION, NORTH AMERICA
DEPALMA II, Robert A., Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, 2805 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33306; Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, SMIT, Jan, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Free University of Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands, BURNHAM, David A., University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS 66045, KUIPER, Klaudia, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Netherlands, MANNING, Phillip Lars, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424, OLEINIK, Anton E., Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, LARSON, Peter L., Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, PO Box 643, 117 Main St, Hill City, SD 57745, MAURRASSE, Florentin J., Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, VELLEKOOP, Johan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Naamsestraat 22, 3000, Leuven, 3000, Belgium and GURCHE, Loren, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, 2805 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33306, rdepalma@pbmnh.org
2:05 PM
THE METEORITE FLUX TO EARTH IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS AS RECONSTRUCTED FROM SEDIMENT-DISPERSED EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPINELS (Invited Presentation)
SCHMITZ, Birger1, HECK, Philipp R.2, ALVAREZ, Walter3, KITA, Noriko4, ROUT, Surya S.2, DEFOUILLOY, Céline4, SMIT, Jan5 and TERFELT, Fredrik1, (1)Astrogeobiology Laboratory, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, 22100, Sweden, (2)Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, (3)Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, (4)WiscSIMS, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, (5)Department of Sedimentary Geology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1081, Netherlands, birger.schmitz@nuclear.lu.se
2:25 PM
SAGA OF THE ALAMO BRECCIA
WARME, John E., 30968 Isenberg Lane, Evergreen, CO 80439, jwarme@mines.edu
2:40 PM
2:55 PM
A LITTLE BIG HISTORY OF IBERIAN GOLD:  GEOLOGICAL ORIGINS AND HUMAN CONSEQUENCES
AGUIRRE-PALAFOX, Luis Erick1, GARCIA-MORENO, Olga2, HAWLEY, William B.3 and ALVAREZ, Walter1, (1)Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, (2)Centro de Investigacion en Nanomateriales y Nanotecnologia, CSIC-UO-PA, Oviedo, E33005, Spain; Dept. Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, 33005, Spain; Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, (3)Berkeley Sesimological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 215 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720; Dept. Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, luis.eap@berkeley.edu
 
3:10 PM
Break
3:25 PM
LINKING DEEP MANTLE SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY AND SURFACE/NEAR SURFACE TECTONICS--A NEW GLOBAL TECTONIC REVOLUTION? (Invited Presentation)
MOORES, Eldridge M., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 and SIMMONS, Nathan A., Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, emmoores@ucdavis.edu
4:00 PM
STRESS PERMUTATIONS, OVERPRESSURE AND STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING DURING TECTONIC INVERSION
PEACOCK, David, Dept. Earth Science, University of Bergen, P.O.Box 7800, Bergen, 5020, Norway, ANDERSON, Mark W., Plymouth and TAVARNELLI, Enrico, Dipartimento Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Siena, Siena, 53100, Italy, enrico.tavarnelli@unisi.it
4:15 PM
THE OLD RED SANDSTONE OF SCOTLAND: EVIDENCE FOR A GANGES-SIZED RIVER DRAINING THE CALEDONIAN HIGHLANDS OF NORWAY
ANDERS, Mark H.1, TEMPLETON, John A.2, CHRISTIE-BLICK, Nicholas2 and HEMMING, Sidney2, (1)Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, (2)Department of Earth Sciences and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, manders@ldeo.columbia.edu
4:30 PM
EARTH'S CONSTANT MEAN ELEVATION: IMPLICATION FOR LONG-TERM SEA LEVEL AND OCEAN LITHOSPHERE DYNAMICS IN A PITMAN WORLD
ROWLEY, David B., Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, rowley@geosci.uchicago.edu
4:45 PM
POST-OROGENIC UPLIFT OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
STEWART, Kevin G. and HILL, Jesse S., Department of Geological Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, kgstewar@email.unc.edu
5:00 PM
OSCILLATORY TENDENCY IN AFTERSHOCKS MIGRATION PATTERN
CHAN, Lung Sang1, ZHOU, Yu2, LEUNG, Yee2 and YING, Winnie3, (1)Department of Earth Sciences and School of Continuing and Professional Education, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Department of Geography and Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, (3)Hatch, Mississauga, ON L5K 2R7, Canada, chanls@hku.hk
5:15 PM
RECONSTRUCTING THE EUROPEAN HYPEREXTENDED MARGIN OF THE ALPINE TETHYS IN CALABRIA, SOUTHERN ITALY
SHIMABUKURO, David H.1, CAPARELLI, Sabina2 and PILUSO, Eugenio2, (1)Department of Geology, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819, (2)Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Università della Calabria, Ponte P. Bucci, cubo 15b, Arcavacata di Rende, 87036, Italy, dhs@csus.edu
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