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GSA TODAY | NOVEMBER 2016Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers     CALL FOR PAPERS

 CORDILLERAN SECTION                                                      Abstract deadline: 14 Feb. 2017
                                                                            Submit abstracts online at www.geosociety.org/Sections/
     113th Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran
     Section, GSA                                                         cord/2017mtg/. The submission fee is US$18 for students
     Hawai‘i Convention Center                                            and US$30 for all others. If you cannot submit an abstract
     Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA                                               online, please contact Heather Clark, +1-303-357-1018, hclark@
     23–25 May 2017                                                       geosociety.org.
     www.geosociety.org/Sections/cord/2017mtg/
                                                                            In addition to the following Theme Sessions, we are soliciting
Convention Center. Hawai‘i Tourism Authority. Photo by Tor Johnson.       abstracts for general discipline sessions. Please direct questions
                                                                          on these sessions to technical program co-chairs Henrietta Dulai
   The Geoscience Hotspot                                                 hdulaiov@hawaii.edu, Greg Moore, gmoore@hawaii.edu, and
                                                                          Brian Popp, popp@hawaii.edu.
         We are excited to announce that the 2017 Cordilleran GSA
      meeting will be held at the beautiful Hawai‘i Convention Center     Symposium
      in Honolulu. The technical program currently consists of 34
      Topical Sessions and Symposia, complemented by six Science and      S1. 	 Biogeochemistry of Sedimentary Carbonates: A Symposium
      Education Short Courses and Workshops, and 12 Field Trips on             Dedicated to Bob Berner and John Morse. Fred T. Mackenzie,
      the islands of Hawai‘i, Maui, O‘ahu, and Kaua‘i. Short courses,          Univ. of Hawai‘i, fredm@soest.hawaii.edu; Jane Schoonmaker,
      workshops, and field trips will occur both before and after the          Univ. of Hawai‘i, jane@soest.hawaii.edu.
      technical sessions. Other special events include student mentoring
      programs and career workshops that will offer exceptional oppor-    Theme Sessions
      tunities for networking. The meeting venue is steps away from
      Waikīkī and your gateway to national monuments and the stun-        T1. 	 Cordilleran Magmatic Forensics—Insights from the
      ning mountains, gardens, parks, and warm waters of the tropical           Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Record. Shanaka
      Pacific. E komo mai (Welcome!) to you and your family to our              de Silva, Oregon State Univ., desilvas@geo.oregonstate.edu;
      tropical paradise (www.gohawaii.com/oahu).                                Rita Economos, Southern Methodist Univ., rita.economos@
30                                                                              gmail.com; Nancy Riggs, Northern Arizona Univ., nancy
                                                                                .riggs@nau.edu; Andy Barth, Indiana Univ.–Purdue Univ.
                                                                                Indianapolis, ibsz100@iupui.edu.

                                                                          T2. 	 Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Western United
                                                                                States. Stephen Martel, Univ. of Hawai‘i, smartel@hawaii
                                                                                .edu; Ann Egger, Central Washington Univ., annegger@
                                                                                geology.cwu.edu.

                                                                          T3. 	 Magmatism and Orogenesis in the Sedimentary Record.
                                                                                Matthew McKay, Missouri State Univ., matthewmckay@
                                                                                missouristate.edu; William Jackson, Univ. of Alabama/
                                                                                Geological Survey of Alabama, wjackson@gsa.state.al.us;
                                                                                Keith Gray, Wichita State Univ., k.gray@wichita.edu.

                                                                          T4. 	 The Pacific Plate through Geologic Time. Paul Wessel,
                                                                                Univ. of Hawai‘i, pwessel@hawaii.edu; Simon E. Williams,
                                                                                EarthByte, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, simon.williams@
                                                                                sydney.edu.au.

                                                                          T5. 	 Internal Structure, Active Deformation, and Mechanics of
                                                                                Accretionary Prisms and Orogenic Wedges. Garrett Ito,
                                                                                Univ. of Hawai‘i, gito@hawaii.edu; Gregory F. Moore, Univ.
                                                                                of Hawai‘i, gmoore@hawaii.edu; James Foster, Univ. of
                                                                                Hawai‘i, jfoster@soest.hawaii.edu.

                                                                          T6. 	 Magmatic Processes and Sources for Hotspot Volcanoes.
                                                                                Michael Garcia, Univ. of Hawai‘i, mogarcia@hawaii.edu;
                                                                                Jasper Konter, Univ. of Hawai‘i, jkonter@hawaii.edu.

                                                                          T7. 	 Origin and Evolution of Continental and Oceanic-Arc
                                                                                Magmas. Michael Garcia, Univ. of Hawai‘i, mogarcia@
                                                                                hawaii.edu.

                                                                          T8. 	 Explosive Volcanism. Bruce. F. Houghton, Univ. of Hawai‘i,
                                                                                bhought@soest.hawaii.edu; Don Swanson, USGS, Hawaiian
                                                                                Volcano Observatory, donswan@usgs.gov; Sarah Fagents,
                                                                                Univ. of Hawai‘i, fagents@hawaii.edu.

                                                                          T9. 	 Volcanic Impacts. Costanza Bonadonna, Univ. of Geneva,
                                                                                bonadonna@unige.ch; Sebastien Biasse, Univ. of Hawai‘i,
                                                                                sbiasse@hawaii.edu; Susanna Jenkins, Earth Observatory of
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