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GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016

Session No. 274
Wednesday, 28 September 2016: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Mile High Ballroom 2C (Colorado Convention Center)

Tectonics of Western North America: Late Paleozoic and through Time

Wanda J. Taylor and Michael Wells, Chairs
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
274-1
8:15 AM
THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY – EARLY TO MID-PALEOZOIC TRANSLATION OF TERRANES FROM THE ARCTIC REALM INTO EASTERN PANTHALASSA
COLPRON, Maurice, Yukon Geological Survey, P.O. Box 2703 (K-14), Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2C6, Canada, STRAUSS, Justin V., Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, HB6105 Fairchild Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, MCCLELLAND, William C., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, 115 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 and NELSON, JoAnne L., British Columbia Geological Survey, P.O. Box 9333 Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, BC V8W 9N3, Canada, maurice.colpron@gov.yk.ca
274-2
8:30 AM
TIMING AND TECTONIC SETTING OF THE LATE PALEOZOIC SOUTHWESTERN LAURENTIAN BORDERLAND: DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM THE ANCESTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN OROGEN
LAWTON, Timothy F., Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Juriquilla No. 3001, Querétaro, 76230, Mexico, CASHMAN, Patricia H., Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, MS 172, Reno, NV 89557, TAYLOR, Wanda J., Geoscience, UNLV, 4505 Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010 and TREXLER, James H., Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, tlawton@geociencias.unam.mx
274-3
8:45 AM
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF LATE PALEOZOIC STRUCTURES IN NEVADA: PROGRESSIVE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN LAURENTIAN MARGIN
CASHMAN, Patricia H., Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557, TREXLER, James H., Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 and STURMER, Daniel M., Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2305 Speedway Stop C1160, Austin, TX 78712, pcashman@unr.edu
Handouts
  • Cashman 274-3.pdf (22.4 MB)
    • 274-4
    9:00 AM
    ORIGIN AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS ALLOCHTHON: NEW INSIGHTS FROM U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND HF-ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS
    LINDE, Gwen M., Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, gwenlinde@yahoo.com
    274-5
    9:15 AM
    STRUCTURES IN THE TIMPAHUTE AND PAHRANAGAT RANGES, SOUTH-CENTRAL NEVADA, AS A PART OF REGIONAL LATE PALEOZOIC DEFORMATIONS
    TAYLOR, Wanda J. and RUSSO, Angela G., Geoscience, UNLV, 4505 Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010, wanda.taylor@unlv.edu
     
    9:30 AM
    Break
    274-6
    9:45 AM
    THE PARADOX BASIN AND SEDIMENT ROUTING IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE LATE PALEOZOIC
    SMITH, Tyson Michael, SAYLOR, Joel E. and LAPEN, Thomas J., Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 312 Science and Research 1, Houston, TX 77204, tysn.smth@gmail.com
    274-7
    10:00 AM
    SYNOROGENIC DEPOSITION IN AN EAST-NORTHEAST TRENDING HALF-GRABEN DURING LATE OLIGOCENE TO MID-MIOCENE NORTH-SOUTH EXTENSION IN WEST-CENTRAL NEVADA
    KERSTETTER, Scott R. and OLDOW, John S., Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, TX 75080, scottkerstetter@gmail.com
    274-8
    10:15 AM
    DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUCKSKIN-RAWHIDE DETACHMENT FAULT SYSTEM, WEST-CENTRAL ARIZONA: EVIDENCE FROM THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD
    PRIOR, Michael G., Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 2305 Speedway, Stop C1160, Austin, TX 78712 and SINGLETON, John S., Warner College of Natural Resources - Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, 400 University Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80523, mprior@utexas.edu
    274-9
    10:30 AM
    PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN STRATIGRAPHY AND PROVENANCE OF THE NORTH SLOPE OF ARCTIC ALASKA: A RECORD OF IAPETUS CLOSURE AND STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION ALONG THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF LAURENTIA
    STRAUSS, Justin V., Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, HB6105 Fairchild Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, JOHNSON, Benjamin, Department of Geology & Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, WARD, William P., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 and MCCLELLAND, William C., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa, 115 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, justin.v.strauss@dartmouth.edu
    274-10
    10:45 AM
    GEOLOGY, U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY, AND HAFNIUM ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY ACROSS THE ALASKA RANGE SUTURE ZONE (SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA): INSIGHTS INTO COLLISIONAL PROCESSES AND CORDILLERAN TECTONICS
    ROMERO, Mariah C.1, RIDGWAY, Kenneth D.1 and GEHRELS, George2, (1)Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, (2)Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, mariahc.romero@gmail.com
    274-11
    11:00 AM
    DETRITAL ZIRCON U-PB MDA AND AGE PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNROOFING OF THE WILLARD-PARIS-MEADE THRUST SHEETS, SEVIER FOLD-THRUST BELT
    GENTRY, Amanda1, WELLS, Michael1 and YONKEE, Adolph2, (1)Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4010, (2)Department of Geosciences, Weber State University, 2507 University Circle, Ogden, UT 84408, gentra1@unlv.nevada.edu
    274-12
    11:15 AM
    WERE CORE COMPLEX COVER ROCKS IN NE NEVADA BURIED TO GREAT DEPTH DURING METAMORPHISM? – I DON’T THINK SO!!
    THORMAN, Charles H., Dept. of Interior, Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, 12464 W 2nd Dr, Lakewood, CO 80228, cthorman@comcast.net
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