Schedule 2021

Friday 1/15: Introduction, overview of the main themes in Cordilleran history

Monday 1/18: no class, MLK holiday

Wednesday 1/20-Friday 1/22: Precambrian terranes, U-Pb dating, Sm-Nd model ages
Reading:

Monday, 25 January: No specified reading. Will discuss the dating and analysis of late Precambrian basins that predate and lead into the Cordilleran passive margin/miogeocline.

Wednesday 27 January: Thermal subsidence and rift duration and ending

Friday 29 January: End of rifting, Ancestral Rockies

Monday 1 February: Plate flexure and Ancestral Rockies

Wednesday 3 February: Finish of ARM, Antler Orogeny

Friday, 5 February: Origin of the upper plate of Roberts Mtn Thrust, Antler models.

Monday, 8 February: Paleozoic truncation of miogeocline

Wednesday, 10 February: Sonoma orogeny

Friday, 12 February: Exotic Terranes. Battle over the Sierra:

Monday, 15 February & Friday Feb 19: Paleomagnetism

Monday, February 22: Plate reconstructions

Wednesday, Feb. 24: How crazy was the plate margin?

Friday, Feb. 26: Fold-and-thrust belts

Monday, March 1: thrust structures, Sevier and Laramide

Wednesday, March 3: Laramide faulting

Friday, March 5 [well, probably Monday, March 8]:

Monday March 8: Intro to pre-Laramide sedimentation

Wednesday March 10: Class project discussion

Friday, March 12: Class project & Seaway + Dynamic Topo

Monday, March 15: Snow day.

Wednesday, March 17: Laramide hypotheses

Friday, March 19: Hinterland extension and paleobarometers

Monday, March 22: Doing literature research, complete hinterland discussion.

Wednesday, March 24: Sierran arc and possible correlations

Friday, March 26: Franciscan Complex

Monday, March 29: Rand/Pelona/Orocopia schists

Wednesday, March 31: Ignimbrite flare-up: Discussion of papers

Friday, April 2: Core complexes

Monday, April 5: Forces and Basin and Range extension

Wednesday, April 7: Paleoelevation

Monday, April 12: Paleoelevation (continued), Sierra structure?

Wednesday, April 14: Neogene erosion

Monday, April 19: Neogene erosion (conclusion), Neogene volcanism and plate boundary evolution

Wednesday, April 21: Geodesy and neotectonics

Last meetings: Student presentations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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