UGA GUIDEBOOK-30 TITLES

(Compliments of Jim Stringfellow, editor, UGS)

UGA-30 The Geologic Transition, High Plateaus to Great Basin: A symposium and field guide: The Mackin Volume, Erskine, M.C., editor with co-editors Faulds, J.E., Bartley, J.M., and Rowley, P.D., 2001, 430 p. $29.99 (also Publication GB 78, Pacific Section, AAPG)

Great Basin-Colorado Plateau transition in central Utah: an interface between active extension and stable interior by P.E. Wannamaker, J. M. Bartley, A. F. Sheehan, C. M. Jones, A. R. Lowrey, T. A. Dumitru, T.A. Ehlers, W. S. Holbrook, G. L. Farmer, M. J. Unsworth, D. B. Hall, D. S. Chapman, D. A. Okaya, B. E. John, and J. A. Wolfe. Example figure: Figure 21. Schematic depiction of two possible lithospheric cross-sections representing differing geodynamic processes responsible for presently observed characteristics of the GB-CP Transition Zone, and surrounding regions.  Click to view Acrobat^tm pdf file (194kb).

Colorado Plateau tectonostratigraphic unit by M. C. Erskine. Example figure: Figure 1. Tectonic map of the Colorado Plateau region. Click to view Acrobat^tm pdf file (207kb).

Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the western margin of the Colorado Plateau during latest Cenomanian and early Turonian by J. Laurin and B. B. Sageman; 

Correlation of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene(?) rocks beneath the Claron Formation, Crow Creek, western Markagunt Plateau, southwest Utah by D. W. Moore and A. W. Straub; 

Late Oligocene-early Miocene normal faulting along west-northwest strikes, northern Markagunt Plateau, Utah by J. J. Anderson; Fault segmentation and linkage: examples from the Hurricane Fault, southwestern U.S.A. by W. J. Taylor, M. E. Stewart, and R. L. Orndorff; 

Imaging the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition zone using basalt geochemistry, geochronology, and geographic information systems by R. F. Downing, E. L Smith, R. L. Orndorff, T L. Spell, and K. A. Zanetti; 

Thermochronologic evidence for footwall deformation during extensional core complex development, Mineral Mountains, Utah by D. S. Coleman, J. D. Walker, J. M. Bartley, and K. V. Hodges; 

The Cenozoic evolution of the Great Basin area, U.S.A. -new interpretations based on regional geologic mapping by P. D. Rowley and G. L. Dixon; 

The role of rheology in the tectonic history of the Colorado Plateau by S. T. Nelson and R. A. Harris; 

Basin configuration of the Virgin River depression, Nevada, Utah and Arizona: a geophysical view of deformation along the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range transition by V. E Langenheim, R. G. Bohannon, J. M. Glen, R. C. Jachens, J. A. Grow, J. J. Miller, G. L. Dixon, and T. C. Katzer; 

Of the southwestern Colorado Plateau margin in northwestern Arizona: geomorphic, structural, and stratigraphic evidence for Laramide uplift by R. A. Young; 

Cenozoic evolution of the Northern Colorado River extensional corridor, southern Nevada and northwest Arizona by J. E. Faulds, D. L. Feuerbach, C. F. Miller, and E. L Smith; 

Cenozoic structure and evolution of the boundary between the Basin And Range and Transition Zone Provinces in Arizona by J. E. Spencer, S. M. Richard, and C. A. Ferguson; 

Very different crustal response to extreme extension in the southern Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau Transition by T. Parsons, J. McCarthy, and G. A. Thompson; 

Thumb Butte: a latite among Tertiary basalts by B. N. Boyd; From transition zone to core complex: deep reflection seismic imaging of the Basin and Range, southeast Arizona by J. M. Kruger and R. A. Johnson; 

Cretaceous and Early Tertiary geology of Cedar and Parowan Canyons, western Markagunt Plateau, Utah by J. G. Eaton, J. Laurin, J. L Kirkland, N. E. Tibert, R. M. Leckie, B. B. Sageman, P. M. Goldstrand, D.W. Moore, A. W. Straub, W A. Cobban, and J. D. Dalebout; 

Structural overlap of Basin and Range stratigraphic packages onto the Colorado Plateau cratonic package in southwestern Utah by M. C. Erskine; 

Linkage and reactivation along the northern Hurricane and Sevier Faults, southwestern Utah by S. Reber, W. I Taylor, M. Stewart, and I. M. Schiefelbein; 

Field trip to the Caliente Caldera Complex, east-striking transverse zones, and nearby mining districts in Nevada - Utah: implications for petroleum, ground-water, and mineral resources by P.D. Rowley, L. W. Snee, R. E. Anderson, L. D. Nealey, D. M. Unruh, and D. E. Ferris

Poster Abstracts

Anderson, Ernest R: Structures recording synextensional shortening along and near the boundary between the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau between Salina, Utah and Lake Mead, Nevada.

Biek, R.F., Willis, G.C., Higgins, J.M., and Snee, L.: Chasing Basalts - Age and Correlation of Basalt Flows in Southwest Utah.

Butler, T., Cornell, D., Hacker, D., and Holm, D.: Progress report of geologic mapping and remote sensing analysis of the Pinto Quadrangle, Colorado Plateau transition zone, SW Utah.

Chapin, Charles E.: Geologic History of the Eastern Margin of the Colorado Plateau.

Cornell, D., Butler, T., Holm, D., Hacker, D., and Spell, T.: Stratigraphy and Ar/Ar ages of volcanic rock of the Pinto Quadrangle, Colorado Plateau Transition zone, SW Utah.

Erskine, M.C.: Extensional tectkonics in a regional thrust belt - a simplified structural model for the  interpretation of the central Basin and Ranges in Utah and Nevada.

Ferguson, C.A., Skotnicki, S.J., and McIntosh, W.C.: Temporal and spatial patterns of extension along the southern boundary of the Transition Zone, Superstition volcanic field, Arizona.

Finstick, Sue A.: Determining the influence of surface water on Six Mile Spring, Parawan, Utah.

Hacker, David B.: Geologic evolution of the Pine Valley Mountains, Basin and Range - Colorado Plateau transition zone, southwest Utah.

Harris, R., Nelson S., Dorias, M., Kowalis, B., Harris, D., and Heizler, M.: Tectionic evolution of the northern-most basement of the Colorado Plateau: Petrology and Thermochronology of the Santaquin metamorphic complex, southern Wasatch Range, Utah.

Heath, S.H.: Herbert E. Gregory, Pioneer Geologist of the Colorado Plateau.

Hintze, Lehi F., and Axen, Gary J.: The Lime Mountain area, an unusually informative window into the Mesozoic - Cenozoic structural complexities of southeastern Nevada.

Hurlow, H.A., Lowe, M., Wallace, J.J., and Bishop, C.E.: Geology, hydrogeology, and ground -water quality of Cedar Valley, Iron County, southwestern Utah.

Hylland, Michael D.: Suggested Revisions to Lithostratigraphic Boundaries of the Upper Cretaceous Dakota Formation on the Kolob Terrace, Southwest Utah.

Karlstrom, K.E., Quigley, M.C., Bowring, S., Kirby, E., Hook, S., and Heizler, M.: Low angle detachment along the Great Unconformity near the Colorado Plateau - Basin and Range breakaway: arguments against a tipped crustal section in the Gold Butte area, southern Nevada.

Keller, G. Randy: Lithospheric Architecture of the Colorado Plateau and its margins.

Kendell, Carl F.: Structure and Stratigraphy of Late Tertiary Rocks in the Subsurface: Rush Lake Area, Iron County, Utah.

Kirkland, James I.: Brackish-water mollusks from the western margin of the western interior seaway: A tool for sorting out the stacked Cenomanian-Turonian marginal marine strata along the Wasatch Line.

Loseke, T.D., and Dilliard, K.A.: Significance of Middle Tertiary Sedimentary Rocks of Chino and Verde Valleys, Transition Zone, Arizona.

Nelson, S.T. and Harris, R.A.: The role of rheology in the tectonic history of the Colorado Plateau.

Quigley, Marak C. and Karlstrom, Karl E.: Tectonic inheritance at the Colorado Plateau - Basin and Range margin - Miocene uplift of the Virgin Mountain anticline influenced by reactivation of Proterozoic and Laramide structures.

Reynolds, S.J., Potochnik, A., and Leighty, R.S.: Tectonic Evolution of the Arizona Transition Zone.

Rockwell, B.W., Cunningham, C.G., Clark, R.N., Sutley, S.J., Gent, C.A., and Rowley, P.D.: Mapping of Miocene hydrothermal systems in the Marysvale Volcanic Field, west-central Utah, using AVIRIS High-resolution remote sensing data.

Schmidt, Dwight L.: Late Miocene aquifer beneath southwestern Colorado Plateau, a precursor to the Grand Canyon reach of the Colorado River. Part II. Sr isotopes.

Van Hoesen, John G.: A preliminary assessment of the glacial geology and geomorphology of Great Basin National Park, east-central Nevada.

Willis, G.C., Biek, R.F., Higgins, J.M., Doelling, H.H., Hylland, M.D., Hurlow, H.A., and Solomon, B.J.: New Geologic Mapping in Utah's Dixie, St. George Basin and Zion National Park, Southwest Utah.

Young, Richard, A.: Laramide uplift of the Colorado Plateau in NW Arizona.

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