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.
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.
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.
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.
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)).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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