Thompson Field Forums

Past Forum Reports

• Processes Controlling the Growth and Evolution of Continental Batholiths, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada
  12–17 August 2018, Terrace and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
  Field Report (PDF)
• Catastrophic Mega-Scale Landslide Failure of Large Volcanic Fields
  16–22 September 2017, Cedar City and Bryce Canyon City, Utah, USA
  Field Report (PDF) | Participant Photo
• Formation of the Sierra Nevada Batholith: Magmatic and Tectonic Processes and Their Tempos
  1–8 September 2012, Sierra Nevada, California, USA
  Field Report (PDF)
• Significance of Along-Strike Variations for the 3-D Architecture of Orogens: The Hellenides and Anatolides in the Eastern Mediterranean
  16–22 May 2010, Samos, Greece
  Field Report (PDF) | Photos
• Structure and Neotectonic Evolution of Northern Owens Valley and the Volcanic Tableland, California
  13–19 September 2009, Bishop, California, USA
  Field Report: Full Text | PDF
• Late Archean Crust: Magmatism and Tectonics of the Abitibi Subprovince, Canadian Shield
  Abitibi granite-greenstone belt and Kapuskasing structural zone
  19–25 July 2008, Ontario and Québec, Canada
  Forum Overview
• Assessing the State of Our Knowledge of Continental Arc Volcanism: The Tatara–San Pedro complex, 36ES, Chilean Southern Volcanic Zone
  3–13 February 2007, Talca, Chile
  Field Report
• Marine impact craters on Earth: Field investigation of the Wetumpka impact structure, a well-preserved marine impact crater, and the K-T boundary in the Alabama Gulf Coastal Plain
  8–11 March 2007, Wetumpka, Alabama, USA
  Field Report
• Tectonic Significance of Vertical Boundaries in the Cordillera
  30 July–5 August 2006, McCall, Idaho, USA
  A field investigation of the western Idaho shear zone, on the western edge of the Idaho Batholith
  Field Report: Full text | PDF
• Rethinking the Assembly and Evolution of Plutons: Field Tests and Perspectives
  7–13 October 2005, Lander, Wyoming, USA
  Mesozoic Cordilleran batholith from Yosemite to the White Mountains, California
  Field Report
• Melt Segregation and Transfer Mechanisms in the Lower Crust
  4–9 July 2004, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa
  Field Report
• Structural Controls on Magma Transport and Vertical Coupling in the Continental Lithosphere
  26 April–6 May 2003, Fiordland, New Zealand
  Field Report
• Kinematics and Vorticity of High-Strain Zones
  16–21 April 2002, Virginia Blue Ridge and Piedmont, USA
  Field Report
• Bolide Impacts on Wet Targets
  22–28 April 2001, Nevada and Utah, USA
  Field Report
• Glaciohydraulic Supercooling, Basal Freeze-on, Stratified Basal Ice and "Deformable Till Beds": Matanuska Glacier, Alaska
  18–22 March 2000, Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, USA
  Field Report
• Correlating Volcanic and Plutonic Perceptions of Silicic Magma Chamber Processes: Evidence from Coastal Maine Plutons
  14–18 September 2000, Ellsworth, Maine, USA
  Field Report