GEOL4717/5717 Topic List, Spring 2011

An asterisk(*) indicates a 5717 topic

5717 students must choose either 1 5717 topic and 2 4717 topics, or 2 5717 topics

4717 students must choose 1 topic to do themselves and 1 topic to do jointly with another class member.

Topics are in approximate order along the trip. Signups as of 5 pm Friday 1/28

Topic Presenter(s)

Eocene erosion surface, southern Front Range

 

Sangre de Cristo Fault neotectonics

Clay Roehner

Structural geology, east side San Luis Valley

 

San Juan volcanic field

Kendra French

San Juan Basin

Hannah Wasserman

*Shiprock (Tertiary volcanism and xenoliths, Four Corners)

Will Yeck

Pennsylvanian-Permian stratigraphy, Four Corners area

Rosalyn Adler

Entrenched meanders, Colorado Plateau

 

Bidahochi and Chuska Formations (middle T Colorado Plateau)

 

Chinle Frm (+Triassic stratigraphy)

 

Meteor Crater

 

San Francisco volcanic field

Ben Thompson

*Chino Valley xenoliths/volcanism

Jessica Stanley

Rim gravels (NE of Kingman)

 

Bouse Formation (lower Colorado integration)

 

* Colorado River extensional corridor (incl. Sacramento detachment)

Leif Anderson

Dish Hill (Amboy) volcanics and xenoliths

Clay Roehner and Hannah Wasserman

Eastern California Shear Zone (Calico Fault)

 

*Central Mojave Extensional Belt (Waterman Hills detachment)

Shannon Leslie

Rand Schist

 

Garlock fault

 

Ricardo (El Paso) Basin (Redrock Canyon)

Kevin Smerud and Liz van Diepen

Garlock Formation (or Series) (exotic terrane)

 

Coso volcanic field tectonics

Chava Bobb and Roz Adler

East Sierran thrust system

Liz van Diepen

*Neogene tectonics, Panamint Valley

Shannon Leslie

*Geology of Panamint Range

 

Extensional markers in Death Valley region (Eagle Valley Frm, etc

 

Amargosa chaos

 

*Death Valley "Turtlebacks"

Will Yeck

Death Valley/Furnace Creek Fault

Ben Thompson & Kara Epple

Mesozoic decompression/extension (Funeral Mtns/Old Woman Mtns

 

Pahrump group (Precambrian)

Kara Epple

*pC - Cambrian strata, SW Nevada (initiation of miogeocline)

 

Kingston Range detachment

Emily Longano

Mesoproterozoic magmatic event (incl. Mountain Pass REE deposit)

Mike Berger

Thrust Faults, Spring Mtns (Sevier orogeny)

 

Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone

 

Landslide deposits, Horse Spring Frm, Frenchman Mtn area

 

Lake Mead Fault system

(Kevin Smerud)?

Muddy Mountains Thrust+foredeep deposits

 

*South Virgin Mountains structural geology

 

Grand Wash fault

 

*Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition, Utah

Jessica Stanley

Hurricane Fault

 

*Creation of Grand Canyon (the hole, not the walls)

Leif Anderson

Grand Canyon volcanic field and xenoliths

Chava Bobb

Sevier/Toroweap Fault

 

Bryce Canyon Tertiary thrusts (Paunsaugunt Plateau)

Amber Cain and Mike Berger

Cretaceous stratigraphy, Utah to Colorado

Amber Cain

Monoclinal folding, Colorado Plateau (San Rafael Swell and Waterpocket Fold)

 

Henry Mtns laccoliths

Kevin Smerud

Grizzly Creek shear zone (1.4 Ga fault)

 

Penn-Permian stratigraphy, Eagle Basin, CO

Kendra French and Emily Langano

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.
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.

 

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.

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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