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Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers THEME SESSIONS
In addition to the following Theme Sessions, we are soliciting
CORDILLERAN SECTION abstracts for general discipline sessions.
T1. Cordilleran Tectonics from the Basin and Range to Alaska
and the Arctic: A Celebration of Elizabeth Miller’s Career
(2018 GSA Structure and Tectonics Division Career
115th Annual Meeting, Contribution Award). Jeff Lee, Central Washington Univ.,
Cordilleran Section, GSA jeff@geology.cwu.edu; Victoria Pease, Stockholm Univ.,
vicky.pease@geo.su.se.
15–17 May 2019 T2. Advances in Seismic Hazard Assessment through
Portland, Oregon, USA Paleoseismic and Tectonic Geomorphic Fault Studies:
In Honor of Ray J. Weldon II, for His Career and
Contributions to the Field. Ashley Streig, Portland State
www.geosociety.org/cd-mtg Univ., streig@pdx.edu; Kate Scharer, USGS, kscharer@
usgs.gov; Scott Bennett, USGS, sekbennett@usgs.gov.
T3. A Simple Twist of Plate: In Honor of the Career
Contributions of the Dynamic Duo—Rick Blakely and
Ray Wells—to Understanding Plate Interactions and
Deformation in Cascadia. Andrew Meigs, Oregon State
Univ., meigsa@geo.oregonstate.edu; Scott Bennett, USGS,
sekbennett@usgs.gov; Peter Haeussler, USGS, pheuslr@
usgs.gov.
T4. Recent Advances in Cordilleran Tectonic Evolution—1:
Paleozoic to Mesozoic. Jamie MacDonald, Florida Gulf
Coast Univ., jmacdona@fgcu.edu; Joe Dragovich, Associated
Earth Sciences Inc., jdragovich@aesgeo.com; Megan
Anderson, Washington Dept. of Natural Resources, megan.
anderson@dnr.wa.gov; Peter Davis, Pacific Lutheran Univ.,
davispb@plu.edu; Jeffrey Tepper, Univ. of Puget Sound,
jtepper@pugetsound.edu.
T5. Recent Advances in Cordilleran Tectonic Evolution—2:
Cenozoic. Jamie MacDonald, Florida Gulf Coast Univ.,
Portland, Oregon, USA, at night; photo courtesy Portland Travels.
jmacdona@fgcu.edu; Joe Dragovich, Associated Earth
Sciences Inc., jdragovich@aesgeo.com; Megan Anderson,
Washington Dept. of Natural Resources, megan.anderson@
LOCATION dnr.wa.gov; Peter Davis, Pacific Lutheran Univ., davispb@
Portland, Oregon, USA—the City of Roses—is located in the heart plu.edu; Jeffrey Tepper, Univ. of Puget Sound, jtepper@
of one of the most dynamic geologic environments in the West, pugetsound.edu.
having been affected by megathrust earthquakes, giant flood- T6. Tectonic Development of the Coast Mountains, British
basalt eruptions, catastrophic glacial floods, continuing fluvial Columbia and Alaska. Margi Rusmore, Occidental College,
and hillslope processes, and human influences on the landscape. rusmore@oxy.edu; M. Robinson Cecil, CSU–Northridge,
Founded along the banks of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, robinson.cecil@csun.edu; George Gehrels, Univ. of Arizona,
Portland is nestled between the magnificent volcanic arc of the ggehrels@gmail.com; Harold Stowell, Univ. of Alabama,
Cascade Range to the east and the Coast Range to the west. hstowell@ua.edu.
Building on the exceptional local and regional geological features T7. Constraints on Insular Superterrane Collision and
of the Cordillera, we have devised a diverse program reflecting Translation: Current Thinking on the Baja-BC
fundamental and applied aspects across earth-science disciplines. Hypothesis. Basil Tikoff, Univ. of Wisconsin, basil@
geology.wisc.edu; Darrel S. Cowan, Univ. of Washington,
CALL FOR PAPERS darrel@uw.edu; Paul Umhoefer, Northern Arizona Univ.,
Abstract deadline: 5 Feb. 2019 paul.umhoefer@nau.edu.
Submit abstracts online at www.geosociety.org/cd-mtg. The T8. Paleogene Tectonic Setting of the Greater Pacific
submission fee is US$18 for students and US$30 for all others. NW before Cascadia: From Sileztia to the Challis Belt.
For questions about online submission, please contact Heather Paul Umhoefer, Northern Arizona Univ., paul.umhoefer@
Clark, +1-303-357-1018, hclark@geosociety.org. nau.edu; Robert Miller, San José State Univ.,
robert.b.miller@sjsu.edu; Jeff Tepper, Univ. of Puget Sound,
jtepper@pugetsound.edu.
T9. Tectonic Processes in Cordilleran Arcs. Stacia Gordon,
Univ. of Nevada–Reno, staciag@unr.edu; Robert Miller,
San José State Univ., robert.b.miller@sjsu.edu.

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