T22B:
Integrated View of the Gulf of California and Adjacent Western Mexico and U.S.A. Plate Boundary: Tectonics, Geophysics, Structure, Volcanology, Petrology, Stratigraphy and Sedimentology, Paleontology, Geomorphology, Geochronology, Ore Deposits and Hydrothermal Vents, and Marine Geology

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Session ID#: 31257

Session Description:
The Gulf of California and the surrounding parts of western Mexico, and the Salton Trough and surrounding parts of the USA, form an ideal natural laboratory for studying a very broad spectrum of inter-related geological and geophysical processes. Prior AGU sessions have focused on particular aspects, such as tectonophysics or marine geology, but all of the topics listed in the title for this session can be better understood when considering advances in the other topics listed therein. The new venue for 2017 (New Orleans) can attract a broader spectrum of researchers than those that normally attend AGU. Now is the time to synthesize results in a multi-disciplinary session that will attract workers in all aspects of the geology and geophysics of the Gulf of California/Salton Trough and adjacent western Mexico and U.S. region. We solicit posters from a very broad base, and especially encourage interdisciplinary contributions.
Primary Convener:  Cathy Busby, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Raquel Negrete-Aranda, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Geología, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, Joann M Stock, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Paul J Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Cathy Busby, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Paul J Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Raquel Negrete-Aranda, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Geología, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico
OSPA Liaison:  Joann M Stock, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

3099 General or miscellaneous [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
8099 General or miscellaneous [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8150 Plate boundary: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8499 General or miscellaneous [VOLCANOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Advances in understanding the tectonic evolution of the Santa Rosalia Basin and its stratiform ore deposits: Results of the Baja Basins Research Experience for Undergraduates (Invited) (240964)
Tina M Niemi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Geosciences, Kansas City, MO, United States, Cathy Busby, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, James B Murowchick, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, Genaro Martinez Gutierrez, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, Department of Earth Sciences, La Paz, Mexico, Jose Luis Antinao Rojas, Indiana Geological Survey, Bloomington, United States, Alison H Graettinger, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Geosciences, Kansas City, United States and Rebecca J Dorsey, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
Breaching of strike-slip faults and flooding of pull-apart basins to form the southern Gulf of California seaway from ~8 to 6 Ma (279331)
Paul J Umhoefer, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Lisa A Skinner, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainibility, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Michael E Oskin, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Rebecca J Dorsey, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, Scott E K Bennett, USGS, Geology Minerals Energy and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States and Michael H Darin
Mapping mantle-melting anomalies in Baja California: a combined subaereal-submarine noble gas geochemistry new data set. (Invited) (263927)
Ronald Michael Spelz1, Raquel Negrete-Aranda2, David R Hilton3, Cristian Virrueta4, Miguel Tellez5, John E Lupton6, Leigh J Evans6, David A Clague7, Robert A Zierenberg8 and Florian Neumann9, (1)Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (2)Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Geología, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, (3)UCSD-SIO, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (5)UABC, Geology, Ensenada, Mexico, (6)NOAA/PMEL, Newport, OR, United States, (7)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (8)Univ California, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (9)Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Geoenergy, Potsdam, Germany
Normal Fault and Tensile Fissure Network Development Around an Off-Axis Silica-Rich Volcanic Dome of the Alarcon Rise, Southern Gulf of California (292862)
Luis Angel Vega-Ramirez, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Geología, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, Ronald Michael Spelz, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Ensenada, BJ, Mexico, Juan Contreras, CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Geology, Ensenada, Mexico, Ryan A Portner, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and David A Clague, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Tectonic History of the Mesozoic Ophiolite and Arc Terranes of Western Mexico (263930)
Lydian Boschman1, Douwe J J Van Hinsbergen2, Cor G Langereis1, Roberto S Molina-Garza3 and David L Kimbrough4, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Geociencias, Queretaro, QA, Mexico, (4)San Diego State University, Geological Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States
Magmatism, Hydrothermalism, and Carbon Cycling in the sedimented Guaymas Basin (266542)
Adam A Soule, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andreas Teske, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States, Daniel Lizarralde, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Ana Christina Ravelo, University of California Santa Cruz, PBSci-Ocean Sciences Department, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Ivano Walter Alello, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Carlos A Mortera-Gutierrez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad DE Armería, Mexico, Christian Berndt, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Marta E Torres, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Carlos Canet, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departamento de Física, Mexico City, Mexico
3D Constraints On Fault Architecture and Strain Distribution of the Newport-Inglewood Rose Canyon and San Onofre Trend Fault Systems (283918)
James J Holmes, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Neal W Driscoll, Scripps Institution of Oceanog, La Jolla, CA, United States and Graham Martin Kent, Nevada Seismological Lab, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States

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