Rocky Mountain GSA

If anyone is planning on visiting Orem, Utah for this year's Rocky Mountain GSA section meeting, and you feel like dragging yourself to a session at 8 in the morning, you can come hear my first professional talk ever! (Yipe...) For reasons known only to the session organizers, I'll be going first in the lineup. (How did that happen?)

T13. 13. Magmatism from the Mesozoic to the Present in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateaus: A Tribute to the Career of Myron G. Best

Eric H. Christiansen, Presiding

Paper # Start Time 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks 10-1 8:05 AM VOLCANISM ON THE FISH LAKE PLATEAU, CENTRAL UTAH: BALL, Jessica L., Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, jlball@buffalo.edu, BAILEY, Christopher, Department of Geology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, and KUNK, Michael J., U.S. Geological Survey, 926A National Center, Reston, VA 20192 10-2 8:25 AM LATE CENOZOIC VOLCANISM NEAR COVE FORT, CENTRAL UTAH: IMPLICATIONS FROM TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY: BETTS, William S. and CHRISTIANSEN, Eric H., Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, wmbetts@gmail.com 10-3 8:45 AM USING THERMODYNAMIC MODELING TO PREDICT FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION PATHS OF ANDESITE TO TRACHYDACITE: ALLEN, Tara L. and CHRISTIANSEN, Eric H., Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, tara.albertson@gmail.com 10-4 9:05 AM INSIGHT INTO MIDDLE TERTIARY CRUSTAL EXTENSION AND MANTLE MAGMATISM ALONG THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF THE SAN JUAN BASIN AT THE ONSET OF VOLCANISM IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO: GONZALES, David A., Department of Geosciences, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301, gonzales_d@fortlewis.edu 10-5 9:25 AM THE CENTRAL COLORADO PLATEAU LACCOLITHS: A TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL LINK TO VOLUMINOUS MID-TERTIARY MAGMATISM IN COLORADO AND THE GREAT BASIN: NELSON, Stephen T., Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, S-389 ESC, Provo, UT 84602, stn@geology.byu.edu 10-6 9:45 AM IMPLICATIONS OF WIDESPREAD, PALEOVALLEY-FILLING ASH-FLOW TUFFS OF THE WESTERN GREAT BASIN FOR PALEOTOPOGRAPHY, REGIONAL TECTONICS, AND TUFF VOLUMES: HENRY, Christopher D.1, FAULDS, James E.1, HINZ, Nicholas H.1, GARSIDE, Larry J.2, and BODEN, David R.3, (1) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, chenry@unr.edu, (2) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada Reno, MS 178, Reno, NV 89557, (3) Physical Sciences, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV 89512 10-7 10:05 AM THE GREAT BASIN ALTIPLANO DURING THE MIDDLE CENOZOIC IGNIMBRITE FLAREUP: INSIGHTS FROM VOLCANIC ROCKS: BEST, Myron G., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, S389 ESC, Provo, UT 84602, myron_best@byu.edu, CHRISTIANSEN, Eric H., Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, eric_christiansen@byu.edu, BARR, Deborah L., U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Las Vegas, NV 89134, GROMME, Sherman, 420 Chaucer St, Palo Alto, CA 94301-2201, DEINO, Alan, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, and TINGEY, David, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

Deep breath. At least it will be quick, and I can go out and drink some low-alcohol beer afterward (it being Utah and all). Let me know if you'd like to join me!