GEOL 702B-Spring, 1996 Seminar:
Cenozoic tectonics of the western Great Basin and the eastern Sierra 
Nevada
All faculty and students welcome to participate
1-2 cr, 2 hrs/week--Time, location to be decided
Content-Length: 699
X-Lines: 19
Status: RO

An organizational meeting will be held Tuesday, 1/23, at 2:30 pm, in LMR 
355.

Goals: to understand the stratigraphy, structure, petrology, 
geochemistry, geophysics, tectonics, and neotectonics of the western 
Great Basin and eastern Sierra Nevada

Topics will include:
	Crust and Lithosphere: Shallow and deep structure
	Styles of Cenozoic deformation, Reno to Yerington,and beyond
	Sierra Nevada, rooted or not?
	Why Sierran uplift?   History and mechanisms
	Death Valley tectonics and large-magnitude extension
	Extension vs strike-slip
	Lane, Walker
	Timing and rates of deformation
	The truth about detachment faults
	Volcanism and extension:  relations or not?
	Quaternary and Neo Tectonics