GEOL4717/5717 Topic List, Spring 2009
GEOL4717/5717 Topic List, Spring 2009
An asterisk indicates a 5717 topic
5717 students must choose either 1 5717 topic and 2 4717 topics, or 2 5717 topics;
4717 students choose only 2 of any topics.
Topics are in approximate order along the trip
Topic
- Eocene erosion surface, southern Front Range
- Neogene tectonics, San Luis Valley
- San Juan volcanic field
- San Juan Basin
- Hogsback monocline, NW New Mexico
- *Shiprock (Tertiary volcanism and xenoliths, Four Corners)
- Pennsylvanian-Permian stratigraphy, Four Corners area
- Entrenched meanders, Colorado Plateau
- Chama Sandstone
- Bidahochi Formation (middle T Colorado Plateau)
- Chinle Frm (+Triassic stratigraphy)
- *Unroofing of the Colorado Plateau
- Rim gravels (central Arizona)
- Apache Group (Precambrian)
- Paleo-Salt River Canyon
- *Cenozoic volcanism and caldera structures, Superstition Mountains
- Little Maria fold-and-thrust belt
- Rawhide/Buckskin core complex
- Bouse Formation (lower Colorado integration)
- *Shadow Valley lakebeds (flow of lower crust)
- Shadow Valley glide blocks (south of Kingston Range)
- Cima volcanic field
- *Geology of Panamint Range
- Extensional markers in Death Valley region
- Amargosa chaos
- *Death Valley "Turtlebacks"
- Death Valley/Furnace Creek Fault
- Pahrump group (Precambrian)
- Kingston Range detachment
- Stateline fault
- Thrust Faults, Spring Mtns (Sevier orogeny)
- *pC - Cambrian strata, SW Nevada (initiation of miogeocline)
- Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone
- Landslide deposits, Horse Spring Frm, Frenchman Mtn area
- Lake Mead Fault system
- Muddy Mountains Thrust+foredeep deposits
- *Mormon Mountains structural geology
- *Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition, Utah
- Hurricane Fault
- Creation of Grand Canyon (the hole, not the walls)
- *Grand Canyon volcanic field and xenoliths
- Sevier Fault
- Bryce Canyon Tertiary thrusts (Paunsaugunt Plateau)
- Cretaceous stratigraphy, Utah to Colorado
- Monoclinal folding, Colorado Plateau (San Rafael Swell and Waterpocket
Fold)
- Henry Mtns laccoliths
- Penn-Permian stratigraphy, Eagle Basin, CO
- Salt tectonics near Glenwood Springs, CO
Some general references:
J. P. Jenney and S. J. Reynolds, (editors), Geological Evolution of Arizona, Ariz.
Geol. Soc. Digest, 17, Arizona Geol. Soc., 1989.
L. F. Hintze, Geologic History of Utah, Spec. Publ. 7 , Brigham
Young Univ. Geol. Studies, 1988.
B. Wernicke (ed.), Basin and Range Extensional Tectonics near the Latitude
of Las Vegas, Nevada, Geol. Soc. Am. Memoir, 176, 1990.
Not in our library (yet—they will try and obtain)
J. H. Stewart, Geology of Nevada, Nevada Bir. Mines Geol. Spec. Publ., 4,
1980.
Mack, G. H., and K. A. Giles (editors), The Geology of New Mexico: A Geologic
History, New Mexico Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., 11, 474
pp., 2004.
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C.
H. Jones | CIRES | Dept.
of Geological Sciences | Univ.
of Colorado at Boulder
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