Circum-Pacific Tectonics, Geologic Evolution, and Ore Deposits
A symposium in honor of William R. Dickinson
Tucson, Arizona
24-30 September, 2007
Sponsored by the Arizona Geological Society
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| Wednesday, Sept. 26, 8:30 am to 12:10 pm: Session 1- PLENARY SESSION, Eric Seedorff & Susan Beck, General Co-Chairs |
| 1 8:45 am | William R. Dickinson | University of Arizona | Topology and anatomy of the circum-Pacific orogenic belt in a global context [abstract] |
| 2 9:30 am | W.G. Ernst & others | Stanford University | Permo-Triassic collision, subduction-zone metamorphism, and tectonic exhumation along the East Asian continental margin [abstract] |
| 3 10:25 am | Dwight Bradley | US Geological Survey | Passive margins through Earth history [abstract] |
| 4 11:00 am | Spencer Titley | University of Arizona | The tectonics and style of metallogenesis in Arizona [abstract] |
| 5 11:35 am | Richard Sillitoe | Independent | Circum-Pacific ore deposits [abstract] |
| Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Session 3- Island Arcs and Back-Arc Basins, Brian Taylor, Session Chair |
| 1 1:30 pm | Brian Taylor | University of Hawaii | Keynote: The development of intra-oceanic island arcs and back-arc basins in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM) and SW Pacific subduction systems [abstract] |
| 2 2:05 pm | Shuichi Kodaira & others | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology [JAMSTEC] | New seismological constraints on growth of island arc crust in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc [abstract] |
| 3 2:30 pm | James Gill | University of California, Santa Cruz | Magmatic evolution of SW Pacific arcs and backarcs, especially Fiji [abstract] |
| 4 2:55 pm | Julian Pearce & Robert Stern | Cardiff University | The chemical components of back-arc basin magmas [abstract] |
| 5 3:45 pm | Katherine Kelley & Erik Hauri | University of Rhode Island | Water distribution within global subduction zones [abstract] |
| 6 4:10 pm | Richard Arculus | Australian National University | Northern Tonga Arc and Fonualei Rifts: initial results from the NoToVE (SS11/2004) Research [abstract] |
| 7 4:35 pm | Yoshi Tatsumi | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology [JAMSTEC] | Arc evolution, continental crust formation. and crust-mantle transformation [abstract] |
| Thursday, Sept. 27, 8:30 am to noon: Session 6- Circum-Pacific Orogenesis I, Stephan Graham, Session Chair |
| 1 8:30 am | Stephan Graham | Stanford University | Keynote: The Great Valley forearc basin, 40 years A.D. (after Dickinson) [abstract] |
| 2 9:05 am | Elizabeth Miller | Stanford University | Magmatism, gneiss domes, and xenoliths in the northernmost Cordillera: Insights into lithospheric-scale processes in extended continental crust [abstract] |
| 3 9:30 am | Page Chamberlain & others | Stanford University | Cenozoic topographic evolution of the North America Cordillera [abstract] |
| 4 9:55 am | Ken Ridgway | Purdue University | Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonic growth of southern Alaska: A sedimentary basin perspective [abstract] |
| 5 10:45 am | Ray Ingersoll | University of California, Los Angeles | Reconstructing southern California [abstract] |
| 6 11:10 am | Andrea Fildani & others | Chevron | Orogenesis of the Patagonian Andes as reflected by basin evolution in southernmost South America [abstract] |
| 7 11:35 am | Rebecca Dorsey & others | University of Oregon | Mesozoic collision, accretion, and translation of oceanic terranes in the Blue Mountains Province of NE Oregon: New insights from the stratigraphic record [abstract] |
| Thursday, Sept. 27, noon: TECTONICS LUNCHEON. Speaker: William R. Dickinson, Palm, Sand, and Reef: Tectonics and Island Shorelines in the Tropical Pacific (A Discourse on Scenic Views) click here for abstract |
| Thursday, Sept. 27, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Session 9- Circum-Pacific Orogenesis II, Darrel Cowan, Session Chair |
| 1 1:30 pm | Darrel Cowan | University of Washington | Keynote: The Franciscan and kindred subduction complexes, 40 years A.D. (after Dickinson) [abstract] |
| 2 2:05 pm | Joann Stock | California Institute of Technology | Global plate circuit results for western North America: Progress and problems [abstract] |
| 3 2:30 pm | Derek Thorkelson & others | Simon Fraser University | Ridge subduction beneath the Americas: New research founded on the work of W.R. Dickinson and W.S. Snyder [abstract] |
| 4 2:55 pm | Mark Brandon & Darrel Cowan | Yale University | A critical review of the Baja BC controversy [abstract] |
| 5 3:45 pm | Christopher Fuller & others | William Lettis and Associates | Structural and morphological evolution of the Cascadia subduction wedge [abstract] |
| 6 4:10 pm | Eric Erslev | Colorado State University | Connecting the Laramide Orogeny to plate processes: new insights from lithospheric geometries, models, and analogous active orogens [abstract] |
| 7 4:35 pm | Richard Gordon & others | Rice University | New tests of the fixed hotspot approximation and implications for circum-Pacific plate reconstructions and tectonics [abstract] |
| Friday, Sept. 28, 8:30 am to noon: Session 12- NW Pacific Tectonics, Mark Brandon, Session Chair |
| 1 8:30 am | Mark Brandon & others | Yale | Keynote: Collision and accretion of far-traveled island arcs at the Kamchatka subduction zone, Russia Far East [abstract] |
| 2 9:05 am | Jeremy Hourigan | University of California, Santa Cruz | Cretaceous-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the circum-Sea of Okhotsk region [abstract] |
| 3 9:30 am | Clark Burchfiel and others | MIT | Evolution of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis and its relation to lower lithospheric and mantle deformation [abstract] |
| 4 9:55 am | Francis Wu | SUNY Binghamton | Understanding orogeny in Taiwan through imaging and modeling [abstract] |
| 5 10:45 am | Robert Stern & others | University of Texas, Dallas | Neogene volcanism of the Japan island arc: The K-h relationship revisited [abstract] |
| 6 11:10 am | David Scholl | US Geological Survey | Evolution of the tectonic connection between the Kamchatka and Aleutian arc-trench systems--An hypothesis [abstract] |
| 7 11:35 am | Gregory A. Davis | University of Southern California | Late Phanerozoic tectonics of the North China "craton" [abstract] |
| Friday, Sept. 28, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Session 16- SW Pacific Tectonics, David Foster, Session Chair |
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| 1 1:30 pm | David Foster & others | University of Florida, Gainsville | Keynote, Paleozoic continental growth, recycling, crustal structure, and metallogeny in the Lachlan Orogen, Eastern Australia [abstract] |
| 2 2:05 pm | Peter Cawood | University Western Australia | Terra Australis Orogen: Record of crustal growth and mountain building along Gondwana & Pangea's Pan-Pacific margin [abstract] |
| 3 2:30 pm | Nicholas Mortimer | GNS Science | Zealandia [abstract] |
| 4 2:55 pm | Robert Hall | Royal Holloway University of London | Continental growth at the Indonesian margins of SE Asia [abstract] |
| 5 3:45 pm | Mark Cloos & Todd Housh | University of Texas, Austin | Collisional delamination in New Guinea: Implications for magma genesis and porphyry copper-gold mineralization [abstract] |
| 6 4:10 pm | Brian Monteleone & others | Arizona State University | Metamorphic core complex formation in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, SE Papua New Guinea [abstract] |
| 7 4:35 pm | John Goodge | University of Minnesota, Duluth | Detrital zircon record of crustal assembly and orogenic evolution along the paleo-Pacific margin of Antarctica [abstract] |
| Saturday, Sept. 29, 8:30 am to noon: Session 20- South American Tectonics, Susan Beck, Session Chair |
| 1 8:30 am | Susan Beck & others | University of Arizona | Keynote: Lithospheric thickening and removal: A comparison of the central and south central Andes [abstract] |
| 2 9:05 am | Teresa Jordan & others | Cornell University | Surface uplift of the central Andes: A view From the West [abstract] |
| 3 9:30 am | Manfred Strecker & others | Universitat Potsdam | Tectonics and climate in the S Central Andes and the onset of the South American monsoon [abstract] |
| 4 9:55 am | Victor Ramos | University Buenos Aires | Late Miocene shallowing subduction and metallogenesis in the Sierras Pampeanas [abstract] |
| 5 10:45 am | Brian Horton | The University of Texas at Austin | Thrust faulting and basin evolution in the central Andes |
| 6 11:10 am | Michael Bevis & others | Ohio State University | Neotectonics of the central and southern Andes: Constraints and insights from geodetic measurements of recent crustal motion [abstract] |
| 7 11:35 am | James Pindell | Tectonic Analysis Ltd., West Sussex, England | Southern Caribbean evolution: passive margins, subduction zone initiation, intra-arc spreading, diachronous trench-trench collision, and terrane accretion, Colombia to Barbados [abstract] |
| Saturday, Sept. 29, 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Session 23- North American Tectonics, George Gehrels, Session Chair |
| 1 1:30 pm | Maurice Colpron, JoAnne Nelson, and Donald Murphy | Yukon and British Columbia Geological Surveys | Northern Cordilleran terranes and their interaction through time [abstract] |
| 2 2:05 pm | James Pindell | Tectonic Analysis Ltd., West Sussex, England | Gulf of Mexico and northern Caribbean evolution: the tricks arcs can
play to accommodate complex continental margin geometries during
arc-continent collision [abstract] |
| 3 2:30 pm | Joaquin Ruiz | University of Arizona | Correlation Paleozoic and Proterozoic Terranes of southern Mexico with the northern Andes based on U-Pb geochronology of detrital zircons [abstract] |
| 4 2:55 pm | Mihai Ducea | University of Arizona | Temporal and spatial isotopic patterns in cordilleran arcs and tectonic implications [abstract] |
| 5 3:45 pm | Marty Grove & others | University of California, Los Angeles | Time scales of shallow subduction, accretion, and exhumation of Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic eugeoclinal sediments beneath southwestern North America [abstract] |
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| 6 4:10 pm | Gary Axen | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | Tectonic evolution of the North American extensional provinces [abstract] |
UNESCO IGCP SYMPOSIUM: Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution Ernie Duebendorfer, Karl Karlstrom, Kevin Chamberlain, & Mike Williams, Session ChairsSession 2- 10:25 am to 12:10 pm, Wednesday, September 26 |
| 1 10:25 am | William L. Griffin & others | Macquarie University | Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic lithospheres: Preservation, modification or delamination? [abstract] |
| 2 11:00 am | Graham Begg | BHP-Billiton | Living with Archean lithosphere [abstract] |
| 3 11:35 am | David Giles | University of Adalaide | Crustal budgets, shifting continents and the search for Proterozoic ores [abstract] |
| UNESCO IGCP SYMPOSIUM (Cont'd) Session 5- 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm, Wednesday, September 26 |
| 1 1:30 pm | Sally Pehrsson | Geological Survey of Canada | Influence of the world's first supercontinent on global metallotects: Nuna and the formation and preservation of paleoproterozoic base metal and uranium deposits [abstract] | |
| 2 2:05 pm | Derek Thorkelson | Simon Fraser University | Northwestern Laurentia: multiple events of rifting, magmatism and orogenesis in Early to Middle Proterozoic time [abstract] | |
| 3 2:30 pm | David Corrigan & others | Geological Survey of Canada | Tectonic evolution and metallogeny of the Paleoproterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogen in Canada: an overview [abstract] | |
| 4 2:55 pm | Matthew Heizler | New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral |
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| 5 3:45 pm | Karl Karlstrom, Mike Williams | U New Mexico (Karlstrom), U Massachusetts, Amherst (Williams) | Arc-accretion model for the Paleoproterozoic evolution of southern Laurentia [abstract] | |
| 6 4:10 pm | Ernie Duebendorfer, Kevin Chamberlain | Northern Arizona University (Duebendorfer), University of Wyoming | Crustal growth vs. crustal assembly: Processes and an example from the Mojave/Yavapai Paleoproterozoic Crustal Provinces in the southwestern U.S. [abstract] | |
| 7 4:35 pm | Andrew Barth & others | Indiana University-Purdue University | Assembling and disassembling California: A monazite and detrital zircon geochronologic framework for Proterozoic crustal evolution in the Mojave province [abstract] |
| SPECIAL SESSION: Friday, September 28, 8:30 am to noon: Session 14- Southwest US - Northwest Mexico Border-Region Geology Steve Reynolds, Session Chair |
| 1 8:30 am | Tim Lawton | New Mexico State University, Las Cruces | Keynote: Outstanding problems in the paleogeography and tectonic evolution of the US-Mexico Border Region [abstract] |
| 2 9:05 am | Alexander Iriondo | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro | Precambrian geology in NW Mexico: New ideas for the distribution of Paleoproterozoic crustal provinces in SW Laurentia [abstract] |
| 3 9:30 am | Steve Reynolds & Jon Spencer | Arizona State University | Connections between the Maria fold and thrust belt and adjacent regions [abstract] |
| 4 9:55 am | Carlos M. Gonzalez-Leon & others | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Hermosillo | Upper Aptian-Lower Albian Mural Formation: Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and depositional cycles on the Sonoran Shelf [abstract] |
| 5 10:45 am | Tom Anderson | University of Pittsburg | The gap in the Cordilleran Thrust Belt: A consequence of Laramide inversion of Late Jurassic transtensional basins in southwestern North America [abstract] |
| 6 11:10 am | Jonathan Nourse, & others | California State Polytechnic University at Pomona | Laramide fold-thrust belt overprinted by mid-Miocene detachment faults, Caborca region, Sonora, Mexico [abstract] |
| 7 11:35 am | Phillip Gans & others | University of California, Santa Barbara | Cenozoic structural and magmatic evolution of Sonora: The transition from intra-arc extension to transtensional rifting [abstract] |
| SPECIAL SESSION: Saturday, September 29, 8:30 am to noon: Session 22- Hot Topics in Tectonics, George Zandt, Session Chair |
| 1 8:30 am | A.M.C. Sengor & others | Istanbul Technical University | Keynote: One lesson from the Tethyan realm for global geology [abstract] | |
| 2 9:05 am | Carmala Garzione & Gregory Hoke | University of Rochester | Late Miocene plateau-wide surface uplift of the central Andes and the growth of orogenic plateaus [abstract] | |
| 3 9:30 am | Terry Pavlis & others | University of Texas, El Paso | Neotectonics of the Yakutat Collision: Changes in deformation driven by mass redistributions of erosion and sedimentation [abstract] | |
| 4 9:55 am | Jim Faulds & Christopher Henry | University of Nevada | The Walker Lane strike-slip fault system: An incipient transform fault along the evolving Pacific - North American plate boundary [abstract] | |
| 5 10:45 am | Eugene Humphreys | University of Oregon | Cenozoic slab windows beneath western U.S. [abstract] | |
| 6 11:10 am | Brian Wernicke & James L. Davis |
| Subcontinental-scale stress transfer via aseismic stick-slip beneath orogenic plateaus [abstract] | |
| 7 11:35 am | Victor Ramos & others | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Detrital zircons from Neogene synorogenic deposits reveal the uplift history of the highest Andes, Mendoza, Argentina [abstract] |
| TECTONICS POSTER SESSION (posters listed alphabetically by first author) |
| 1 | Joseph Andrew | Youngstown State University | Cenozoic tectonic history of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Huizopa, Sonora-Chihuahua, Mexico [abstract] |
| 2 | Elizabeth Anthony | University of Texas at El Paso | Lithospheric North America: insight from xenoliths and applications to Earthscope [abstract] |
| 3 | Luke Beranek | University of British Columbia | The battle of the bulge: Tracking eastward migration and topographic development of the Yellowstone hotspot with the Miocene to Holocene detrital zircon provenance record, Snake River Plain region, Idaho [abstract] |
| 4 | Luke Beranek | University of British Columbia | Triassic stratigraphic links between pericratonic terranes of the northern Canadian Cordillera and the North American margin: A new tectonic and paleogeographic model from detrital mineral and whole-rock provenance data [abstract] |
| 5 | Melanie Biggs | San Diego State University | Oligocene volcanic rocks, the Bear Canyon conglomerate, and the Chocolate Mountains anticlinorium, SE California: Evidence for Neogene reactivation of a regional scale long-lived fold and its tectonic implications [abstract] |
| 6 | Katrin Breitsprecher & Derek J. Thorkelson | University of British Columbia | Neogene Nazca-Antarctic-Phoenix slab windows as a framework for modern slab anatexis beneath Patagonia [abstract] |
| 7 | Kathleen Burnham | Stanford University | Predictive model: Upper Cretaceous to Early Miocene paleogeography of the San Andreas fault system derived from detailed multidisciplinary conglomerate correlations [abstract] |
| 8 | Josh Calkins | University of Arizona | In search of an ultramafic residual root beneath the Coast Mountains Batholith of British Columbia [abstract] |
| 9 | Peter Haeussler & others | U.S. Geological Survey | Life and death of the Resurrection plate: Evidence for its existence and subduction in the northeastern Pacific in Paleocene-Eocene time [abstract] |
| 10 | James Haggart & others | Geological Survey of Canada | Cretaceous tectonic evolution of Insular Belt of Canada constrained by zircon provenance analysis [abstract] |
| 11 | Gordon B. Haxel | U.S. Geological Survey | Geology and geochemistry of Jurassic plutonic rocks, Baboquivari Mountains, south-central Arizona [abstract] |
| 12 | Robert Hildebrand | Utah State University | Was the western edge of North America subducted during the Sevier orogeny? An iconoclastic view of the Cordilleran orogen [abstract] |
| 13 | Aldo Izaguirre-Pompa & Alexander Iriondo | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro | Mesoproterozoic (~1.2 Ga) quartzite and intruding anorthosite (~1.08 Ga) from Sierra Prieta, NW Sonora: Mexican additions to the Precambrian history of SW Laurentia [abstract] |
| 14 | William Leggett | University of Texas at Austin | New age constraints and geochemical data on Early to Middle Jurassic strata near Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico: A record of the Cordilleran-Nazas arc in north-central Sonora [abstract] |
| 15 | Christopher T. Lopez & Richard A. Schweickert | University of Nevada, Reno | Structure, litho- and biostratigraphy, and age of roof pendants located in the Sweetwater Range, eastern California and Pine Grove Hills, western Nevada (~38.4° N) [abstract] |
| 16 | Thomas Peryam & others | University of Oregon | Lower Cretaceous strata of he southwestern Bisbee Basin of north-central Sonora, Mexico: Evidence for Early Cretaceous (~130 Ma) arc accretion [abstract] |
| 17 | Ryan Porter & others | University of Arizona | Seismic imaging of low angle subduction: A comparison between the Nazca Plate in Chile and Argentina and the Pacific Plate in Alaska [abstract] |
| 18 | Wayne Premo & others | US Geological Survey | New SHRIMP-RG U-Pb zircon Ages and Sm-Nd analyses of Proterozoic metamorphic rocks of the San Gabriel Basement Terrane [abstract] |
| 19 | Anthony Salem & others | University of New Mexico | Preliminary results of field investigations in the Big Maria, Palen, and McCoy Mountains, Maria Fold and Thrust Belt and McCoy Basin, SE California [abstract] |
| 20 | Kelley Stair & others | University of Arizona | U-Pb zircon plutonic emplacement and metamorphic ages from a tilted crustal section of the Famatinian arc, northwestern Argentina: Petrologic and regional tectonic implications [abstracts] |
| 21 | Jessica Terrien & others | Syracuse University | Correlation between structural level and age of the Wilderness sills: Implications for a complex cooling history [abstract] |
| 22 | Martin Wong & Phillip Gans | Colgate University | 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic constraints on the formation of metamorphic core complexes in the Mexican Basin and Range [abstract] |
| 23 | J.L. Wooden & others | U.S. Geological Survey | Using the temperature and compositional characteristics of zircon and sphene to better understand the petrogenesis of Mesozoic magmatism in the Transverse Ranges, California [abstract] |
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