Meeting sessions

Meeting sessions

Meeting sessions

Symposium

Earth Life Sciences across the Cordillera

Session Advocates: Greer Dolby, Scott E.K. Bennett, Jorge Miros-Gómez, Adrian Munguia-Vega

This session showcases interdisciplinary research that bridges geological sciences with allied fields including (but not limited to) genetics, ecology, biogeography, archaeology, informatics to emphasize innovative approaches to understand the interconnectedness of Earth systems.

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
Marine/Coastal Geoscience
Structural Geology

Tectonic Evolution and Competing Models for the Opening of the Gulf of California: From Subduction to Oblique Rifting

Session Advocates: Ronald M. Spelz, Raquel Negrete-Aranada, Scott E.K. Bennett, Elisa Fitz-Díaz

This symposium will explore major controversies in the tectonic evolution of the Gulf of California, highlighting the timing, kinematics, and driving mechanisms behind its transition from subduction to oblique continental rifting and transform faulting.

Tectonics
Structural Geology
Geophysics/Geodynamics

Keynote: Earth Life Sciences across the Cordillera

Session Advocates: Greer Dolby, Scott E.K. Bennett, Jorge Miros-Gómez, Adrian Munguia-Vega

This session showcases interdisciplinary research that bridges geological sciences with allied fields including (but not limited to) genetics, ecology, biogeography, archaeology, informatics to emphasize innovative approaches to understand the interconnectedness of Earth systems.

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
Marine/Coastal Geoscience
Structural Geology

Topical Sessions

Recent Advances in the Gulf of California Oblique Rift: Offshore and Onshore Studies // Avances Recientes en el Rift Oblicuo del Golfo de California: Estudios Marinos y Terrestres (Part I)

Session Advocates: Adriana Piña, Scott E.K. Bennett, Florian Neumann, Ivan Peña-Villa, Karina Fuentes-Bustillos

This session highlights recent research on the Gulf of California–Salton Trough plate boundary from ~12 Ma to today. We welcome terrestrial and marine studies involving tectonics, basin analysis, volcanology, sedimentology, and more. English or Spanish. 

Tectonics
Volcanology
Stratigraphy

Cordilleran Mineral Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Critical Metal Ore Deposits

Session Advocates: Néstor Alfredo Cano Hernández, Mélanie Noury, Cristo Bejarano-Carrillo, Edith Fuentes Guzmán, Héctor Gutiérrez-Mendoza, Francisco Quintanar-Ruiz, Edgardo Barrera Moreno

Explore the processes responsible for selective transport and accumulation of critical metals in the Earth’s crust: mineral systems science, economic geology, mineral exploration, geochemistry and isotopes, fluid inclusions, and mineral chemistry (bilingual session (English/Spanish)). 

Economic Geology
Energy Geology
Mineralogy/Crystallography

Borderless Geoscience: Linking Baja and Southern California

Session Advocates: Young Ho Aladro Chio, Erik Ramirez-Ramos

We invite contributions from both geophysical and geological studies that integrate or reference observations from both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border. The purpose is to promote discussion regarding regional processes.

Geophysics/Geodynamics
Structural Geology

Sedimentary Systems and Provenance in the Western Cordillera

Session Advocates: Elena Centeno-Garcia, Rebecca J. Dorsey

This session invites contributions on sedimentary processes, depositional environments, stratigraphic frameworks, and provenance evolution across western North America. Topics may include basin analysis, source-to-sink studies, and applications of stratigraphy to energy and environmental questions.

Sediments, Clastic
Stratigraphy
Tectonics

Geoscience Education in the Western U.S and México. Practices, Pathways, and Partnerships.

Session Advocates: Rachel Teasdale, Rodrigo Gutierrez Navarro

Promotes the exchange of educational practices, and collaborations between U.S.A. and México to strengthen geoscience education, fostering academic networks, pedagogical innovation, and collaborative training for students and faculty.

Geoscience Education
Geoscience Information/Communication

The southern margin of the North American cordillera through time

Session Advocates: Bodo Weber, Elisa Fitz-Díaz

This session deals with the geologic evolution of the southeastern Cordillera of the North American Plate, its role during ancient orogenic cycles, opening of the Gulf of Mexico, and its interaction with the Caribbean Plate.

Tectonics
Geochronology
Structural Geology

Geomorphological, Hydrologic, and Geothermal investigations of basin aquifers in Baja California Sur (BCS), Mexico

Session Advocates: Jobst Wurl, Laura M. Norman, Enrique Troyo-Diéguez, Maria Z. Flores López, Loic Peiffer

The session will explore BCS basins, focusing on groundwater storage, evaporation, runoff and transport mechanisms, featuring experts on thermal and shallow groundwater interactions, soil mapping for hydrological planning, geomorphology, and human impacts on water balance.

Geomorphology
Hydrogeology
Geochemistry

Guaymas Basin and Gulf of California Subsurface Systems and Energy Applications

Session Advocates: Andreas P Teske, Thomas Davis, Tobias Hoefig, Raquel Negrete-Aranda, Daniel Lizarralde

This session will present subsurface research in the Gulf of California, especially IODP Expedition 385 to Guaymas Basin that explored the linkages between tectonics, magmatism, sedimentation, hydrothermalism, carbon cycling, and microbial life. Merged sessions: Subsurface Research  in Guaymas Basin and the Gulf of California and Energy Resources and Economic Development in Baja California: Fossil, Renewable, and Transition Minerals.

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
Geochemistry
Tectonics

The Mesozoic Convergent Margin of Alta and Baja California

Session Advocates: Rafael Almeida, Joshua Schwartz, David Kimbrough

This session will cover aspects including the structure, petrology, geochronology, and stratigraphy of the Mesozoic convergent margin of North America from Alta California to Baja California Sur.

Tectonics
Petrology, Igneous
Structural Geology

Paleoceanography and paleoclimate of the Gulf of California and how they resonate with the evolution of other marginal seas

Session Advocates: Tobias W. Höfig, Shijun Jiang, Ligia Pérez-Cruz

This session features studies on the climatic and marine history of the Gulf of California and its connections to the global climate and ocean system, utilizing multidisciplinary geological, micropaleontological, geochemical, and numerical modeling proxies.

Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
Marine/Coastal Geoscience
Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy

Evolution of Cordilleran-type orogenic systems

Session Advocates: Tomas Capaldi, Susana Henriquez, Haiyang Kehoe

 

This session seeks contributions that connect surface, crustal, and mantle processes associated with Cordilleran systems, specifically addressing geodynamics, kinematics, magmatism, uplift, erosion, basin subsidence, and sediment dispersal in ancient and modern settings.

Structural Geology
Stratigraphy
Geophysics/Geodynamics

Crossing Borders: Large-scale tectonic models of the North American Cordillera

Session Advocates: Stacia Gordon, Basil Tikoff, Sarah Trevino

This session focusses on the Phanerozoic evolution of the North American Cordillera, soliciting studies that address large-scale tectonic models associated with obliquely convergent and divergent movement along the margin.

Tectonics
Geophysics/Geodynamics
Structural Geology

US-Mexico Exchange on Cave and Karst Science and Conservation

Session Advocates: Ana K. Celis

This session welcomes submissions in fields related with cave and karst sciences applied in Mexico, with a special interest in showcasing present or past US-Mexico binational collaborations, inter- and multidisciplinary studies and community outreach projects.

Geoheritage
Karst
Geoscience Education

The western equatorial Pangea: Geological, geophysical, geochronological, and paleoecological insights on the youngest supercontinent assembly and breakup on Earth (Part 1)

Session Advocates: Mildred Zepeda-Martínez, Bernardo Ignacio García-Amador, N. Betania Palacios-García, Nancy Riggs, Yuly Tatiana Valencia-Morales, Juan Moises Casas-Peña

This session welcomes studies in Mexico, southwestern North America, and northwestern South America investigating the Pangea’s supercontinent cycle from tectonic, stratigraphic, paleoecologic, geophysical, geochronologic, and paleogeographic perspectives to offer insights into its assembly and breakup.

Tectonics
Stratigraphy
Geophysics/Geodynamics

Tectonic Controls on Cenozoic Volcanism in the Gulf of California-Salton Trough Region and the Adjacent Southwestern North American Plate Boundary

Session Advocates: Bryan P. Murray, Cathy J. Busby, Keith D. Putirka, Michael H. Darin, Scott E.K. Bennett

Tectonic reconstructions of the southwestern North American plate boundary provide an excellent framework for understanding Cenozoic volcanism (arc, rift, slab window, seafloor) in this largely extensional and transtensional setting. Geologic, geochemical and geophysical submissions encouraged.

Tectonics
Volcanology

Subduction Zones and Their Volcanic Arcs: Initiation and Evolution, Structure, Metamorphism, Magmatism

Session Advocates: Robert M. Holder, David Hernández Uribe, Jordan W. Wang, James Worthington, John He, Paul A. Kapp, Megan Mueller

We welcome diverse submissions on the petrology, structure, geochemistry, and geophysics of subduction zones from all approaches. Example topics include initiation, evolution, volatile cycling, ophiolites, arc tempos, high-P metamorphism, mélanges, seismicity, and accretionary wedges.

Tectonics
Petrology, Metamorphic
Petrology, Igneous

Cenozoic dynamics of the western North American plate boundary: Insights from offshore marine geology and geophysics into Cordilleran tectonics

Session Advocates: James Worthington

We invite presentations on Cenozoic tectonics, volcanism, sedimentation, and geohazards offshore and along the margin of western North America. Example topics include crustal structure, mantle processes, triple-junction migration, paleomagnetism, active faulting, marine stratigraphy, and seismicity.

Tectonics
Petrology, Igneous
Volcanology

Lost Oceans, Shifting Continents: Interdisciplinary Records of Paleo-Pacific Plate Histories in the American Cordilleras

Session Advocates: María Isabel Sandoval, Vanessa Colás, Elisa Fitz-Díaz, Kennet E Flores

This session integrates tectonics, petrology, geochronology, stratigraphy, and paleontology to illuminate how Paleo-Pacific plates drove subduction dynamics, crustal evolution, and paleogeographic reconstructions across the complex geological architecture of the American Cordilleras.

Tectonics
Geochemistry
Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy

Tectonic setting of Comondú group: a discussion on alternative interpretations

Session Advocates: Luca Ferrari, Mariano Cerca

The Comondú group is a key element in the tectonic evolution of the Gulf of California. This session will discuss different intepretations of Comondú group based on geologic and structural information and geochornology

Tectonics
Stratigraphy
Volcanology

Recent Advances in the Gulf of California Oblique Rift: Offshore and Onshore Studies // Avances Recientes en el Rift Oblicuo del Golfo de California: Estudios Marinos y Terrestres (Part II)

Session Advocates: Adriana Piña, Scott E.K. Bennett, Florian Neumann, Ivan Peña-Villa, Karina Fuentes-Bustillos

This session highlights recent research on the Gulf of California–Salton Trough plate boundary from ~12 Ma to today. We welcome terrestrial and marine studies involving tectonics, basin analysis, volcanology, sedimentology, and more. English or Spanish. 

Tectonics
Volcanology
Stratigraphy

The western equatorial Pangea: Geological, geophysical, geochronological, and paleoecological insights on the youngest supercontinent assembly and breakup on Earth (Part 2)

Session Advocates: Mildred Zepeda-Martínez, Bernardo Ignacio García-Amador, N. Betania Palacios-García, Nancy Riggs, Yuly Tatiana Valencia-Morales, Juan Moises Casas-Peña

This session welcomes studies in Mexico, southwestern North America, and northwestern South America investigating the Pangea’s supercontinent cycle from tectonic, stratigraphic, paleoecologic, geophysical, geochronologic, and paleogeographic perspectives to offer insights into its assembly and breakup.

Tectonics
Stratigraphy
Geophysics/Geodynamics

Recent Advances in the Gulf of California Oblique Rift: Offshore and Onshore Studies // Avances Recientes en el Rift Oblicuo del Golfo de California: Estudios Marinos y Terrestres (Part III)

Session Advocates: Adriana Piña, Scott E.K. Bennett, Florian Neumann, Ivan Peña-Villa, Karina Fuentes-Bustillos

This session highlights recent research on the Gulf of California–Salton Trough plate boundary from ~12 Ma to today. We welcome terrestrial and marine studies involving tectonics, basin analysis, volcanology, sedimentology, and more. English or Spanish. 

Tectonics
Volcanology
Stratigraphy
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