GEOL4717/5717 Topic List, Spring 2025

Topics are in approximate order along the trip

Topics to be presented 2025

San Juan volcanic field

Atticus

San Juan Basin

Brett

Hogback Monocline

Sydney

Morrison Formation

Anya

*Shiprock (Tertiary volcanism and xenoliths, Four Corners) (or Agathla Peak, depending)

Donna

Chuska Sandstone (Eocene-Olig Colo. Plat.)

Grady

Entrenched meanders, Colorado Plateau

Dante

Meteor Crater

Sorin

San Francisco volcanic field

Ashley

Mogollon Rim (near Sedona)

Michael

Cave markers of Grand Canyon incision

Emma

*Dish Hill (Amboy) volcanics and xenoliths

Jacob

Eastern California Shear Zone (Calico Fault)

Lark

*Central Mojave Extensional Belt (Waterman Hills detachment)

Wolfgang

Sierra Nevada batholith

Lark

*Neogene tectonics, Panamint Valley

Jacob

*Geology of Panamint Range

Donna

*Death Valley "Turtlebacks"

Wolfgang

Amargosa chaos

Sydney

Pahrump group (Precambrian)/Johnnie oolite

Anya

Hurricane Fault

Emma

Sevier/Toroweap Fault

Dante

Bryce Canyon Tertiary thrusts (Paunsaugunt Plateau)

Grady

Cretaceous stratigraphy, Utah to Colorado

Michael

Henry Mtns laccoliths

Sorin

Grizzly Creek shear zone (1.4 Ga fault)

Ashley

Penn-Permian stratigraphy, Eagle Basin, CO

Brett

Salt tectonics near Glenwood Springs, CO

Atticus

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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