Initial Publication Date: September 11, 2006

Session III

Northern Rockies Geology in Space and Time:
Reflections on the Big Questions of Northern Rockies Geology and how can EarthScope play a role?


Processes that make a continent

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Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon
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Mesoproterozoic belt basin: Crustal-scale anomaly in the Northern Rockies

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J. W. Sears, University of Montana
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Pre-Miocene magmatism in the Northern Rocky Mountains
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Reed S. Lewis, Idaho Geological Survey

Arthur A. Bookstrom, U.S. Geological Survey
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Magmatism of the Snake River Plain and Yellowstone Region: Implications for continental lithospheric evolution above a mantle plume

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William P. Leeman, National Science Foundation
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Influence of structure and composition of basement on mineral deposits across Montana and Idaho

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Lund, Karen, Klein, T.L, O'Neill, J.M., Sims, P.K., U.S. Geological Survey
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Laramide and Sevier-style tectonics

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John Oldow, University of Idaho
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Opportunities for understanding extensional processes in the Northern Rocky Mountains

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Susanne U. Janecke, Utah State University
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Earthscope from the Montana Regional Seismic Network perspective

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Michael C. Stickney, Earthquake Studies Office, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
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Integrating undergraduate education and research in the Northern Rockies

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Robert C. Thomas, Sheila M. Roberts and R. Stephen Mock, Environmental Sciences Department, The University of Montana-Western
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Recent Changes in the Rocky Mountains: Neogene Drainage Changes and Biogeography

Paul Karl Link, Idaho State University

A GeoTraverse in the Northern Rockies

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David W. Mogk, Montana State University
Ben A. Van der Pluijm, University of Michigan
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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