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342 Recent Advances in the Study of the Laramide Orogeny and Related Processes in Mexico and the Southern United States

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Thursday, 9 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 322AB

Presiding:
Mariano Cerca , Martin Valencia and Gabriel Chávez-Cabello
8:00 AM
342-1
Style and Timing of Laramide Deformation in Northeastern Mexico
Timothy F. Lawton, New Mexico State University; Mark G. Rowan
8:20 AM
342-2
Evidence of Basement Inversion during the Laramide Orogeny in the Sabinas Basin Area, Coahuila, Mexico
Gabriel Chávez, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León; Jorge Aranda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Alexander Iriondo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Mario Aranda, Exploración y Producción; Rolando Peterson, Exploración y Producción; Samuel Eguiluz, Independiente
8:35 AM
342-3
Structure and Stratigraphy within the Evaporite Décollement of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Northeastern México
Gareth E. Cross, The University of Texas at Austin; Randall Marrett, The University of Texas at Austin
8:50 AM
342-4
A Thermochronologic Transect of Basement Rocks across Central Sonora, Mexico: Implications for Laramide Tectonics and Cenozoic Extension
Martin S. Wong, Colgate University; Phillip B. Gans, University of California, Santa Barbara
9:05 AM
342-5
Insights on the Origin of the Laramide Porphyry Copper Deposits of Northwestern Mexico
Martín Valencia-Moreno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Margarita Lopez-Martinez, CICESE; Lucas Ochoa-Landín, Universidad de Sonora
9:20 AM
342-6
Folding on the Flanks of the Southernmost Laramide Uplift, Big Bend Region, Texas
Joseph I. Satterfield, Angelo State University; Chris A. Barker, Stephen F. Austin State Univ; R. LaRell Nielson, Stephen F. Austin State Univ; Ryan Sonntag, Angelo State University; Henry F. Schreiner III, Angelo State University; Jonathan Dyess, Sul Ross State University
9:35 AM
342-7
High Resolution, Ground-Based Magnetic Surveys Over Exposed and Buried Tertiary Intrusions within Laramide Folds and Faults, Big Bend Region, TX
Christian Poppeliers, Augusta State University; Christopher W. Parham, Augusta State University; John Allison, Augusta State University; Michael W. Nadolsky, Augusta State University; Rebecca L. Sawyer, Augusta State University
9:50 AM
Break
10:05 AM
342-8
Santonian-Maastrichtian Arc Related Basins: Age Constraints on Deformation in Western Mexico, Colima and Michoacán States
Elena Centeno García, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Cathy Busby, University of California; Mouloud Benammi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
10:25 AM
342-9
Concurrent Cretaceous-Paleogene Deformation, Basin Development, Magmatism, and Shallow Angle Subduction in the Laramide Province of the SW US and Northern Mexico
Nancy McMillan, New Mexico State University; Timothy Lawton, New Mexico State University
10:40 AM
342-10
Laramide Sedimentation and Deformation along Papalutla Fault System
Gilberto Silva-Romo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Claudia C. Mendoza-Rosales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
10:55 AM
342-11
Mechanical Response of the Southern Mexico Lithosphere to Laramide Shortening
Mariano Cerca, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Luca Ferrari, UNAM
11:10 AM
342-12
The Acapulco Granite, Southern Mexico: New Geochemical and Geochronological Data for New Interpretations
Guillermo A. Hernandez Pineda, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Luigi Solari, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Arturo Gómez-Tuena, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Doris L. Méndez Cárdenas, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Ofelia Pérez Arbizu, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Gabriela Solis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
11:25 AM
342-13
The Laramide Orogeny in Mexico: An Updated Revision
Gabriel Chávez, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León; Mariano Cerca, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; Martin Valencia, UNAM-ERNO
11:40 AM
342-14
Plate Tectonics of the North American Continent at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and Implications for a Terrestrial Cause In the Great KT Extinction Controversy
Paula J. Crook, University of Texas Austin
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