Joint 70th Rocky Mountain Annual Section / 114th Cordilleran Annual Section Meeting - 2018

Session No. 50
Wednesday, 16 May 2018: 1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Humphreys/Mt. Elden Room (DoubleTree by Hilton)

T8. Laramide Tectonics in the Southwest North American Cordilleran Interior I

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

 

James B. Chapman, Ryan C. Porter and Christopher Andrew Clinkscales, Advocates
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Start Time
 
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:35 PM
EFFECTS OF WATER ON FLAT-SLAB SUBDUCTION GEOMETRY AND EVOLUTION
PETERSEN, Cameron M., Northern Arizona University, 6315 N St. Nicholas Cir., Unit 53, Flagstaff, AZ 86004
1:55 PM
LARAMIDE CRUSTAL DETACHMENT IN THE ROCKIES: CORDILLERAN SHORTENING OF A FLUID-WEAKENED CRATON
ERSLEV, Eric A., Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521
2:15 PM
LATE CRETACEOUS MAGMATISM AND UPLIFTS IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO: FARALLON TEAR RIPS THROUGH NEW MEXICO?
CLINKSCALES, Christopher Andrew, Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
2:35 PM
NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE MIDDLE–LATE EOCENE (~46–36 MA) TECTONIC TRANSITION FROM LATE-STAGE LARAMIDE DEFORMATION TO BIMODAL RIFT VOLCANISM (RIO GRANDE RIFT) IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO
HAMPTON, Brian A., MACK, Greg H., CREITZ, Ryan H. and AMATO, Jeffrey M., Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003
2:55 PM
CRETACEOUS FORELAND-BASIN DEVELOPMENT ON PREVIOUSLY RIFTED CRUST IN THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S.: FAR-FIELD RESPONSE TO GUERRERO ARC COLLISION
AMATO, Jeffrey M.1, LAWTON, Timothy F.2, MACHIN, Sarah E.K.1 and LUCAS, Spencer G.3, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30001, Las Cruces, NM 88003, (2)Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Blvd. Juriquilla No. 3001, Querétaro, 76230, Mexico, (3)New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W, Albuquerque, NM 87104
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