Blue Mountains Seminar, Fall 2006 - our evolving schedule

Week Date Topic Reading
1 Sept. 28 Introduction, Logistics, Arm-waving  
2 Oct. 5 Cordilleran Mesozoic tectonics Burchfiel et al. (1992)
3 12 Cordilleran post-Laramide tectonics Christiansen and Yeats (1992) 
4 19 Vic Camp - Columbia River basalts and plumes Camp and Ross (2004), Hooper et al. ms (in press?)
5 26 Sandra Wyld - Reconstructing western North America Wyld and Wright (2001) and Wyld (2002)
6 Nov. 2 Basil Tikoff - Western Idaho Shear Zone (when things fall apart) McClelland et al (2000) and Giorgis et al (2005)
7 9 Group Discussion - Developing a chronology for the Blue Mountains through time no new reading
8 16 Tracy Vallier (Insights from Hells Canyon); Allan Kays (Klamaths) Vallier (1995); Vallier (1998)
9 23 No Class: Thanksgiving  
10 30 Darrel Cowan - Age and provenance of lower Tertiary fluvial strata, Elkhorn Mountains, E. Oregon Cowan and Reiners (2004 abstract)