Gary Axen Abstracts, Past 5 years

(* indicates invited presentation, italics indicates student author)

 

184. Chirigos, M. and Axen, G., 2019, Spectacular soft-sediment deformation in

Eocene landslide kilippen: Single or multi-stage slip history? Sawtooth

Mountains, western New Mexico: : New Mexico Geological Society Annual

Spring Meeting, April 12, 2019, Socorro.

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=1499

183. van Wijk, J., Axen, G. and Currie, C., 2019, Farallon flat-slab Subduction and New

Mexico geology: New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting, April

12, 2019, Socorro. https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=1464

182. Lutz, B., Axen, G. and Ketchum, R.A., 2019, Thermo-kinematic modeling of

detachment faulting, Funeral Mountains, California: Geological Society of

America Cordilleran Section Meeting, Portland, Oregon, Paper number 2-7,

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2019CD/webprogram/Paper329816.html.

181. van Wijk, J. and Axen, G.J., 2018, What tectonic record does passage of a weak

plume leave in a rift?: American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting,

Washington, D.C., T12B-01.

180. Axen, G.J., van Wijk, J.W. and Currie, C.A., 2018, Bulldozing of continental

mantle lithosphere by flat-slab subduction: Implications for upper plate

deformation and arc magmatism: American Geophysical Union Annual Fall

Meeting, Washington, D.C., T21G-1647.

179. Phillips, F.M., Lutz, B. and Axen G., 2018, Novel modes of slip partitioning in

transtensional settings inferred from data on the White Mountain fault zone,

California: Geological Society of America National Meeting, Indianapolis,

Indiana.

178. van Wijk, J.W., Currie, C.A, and Axen, G.J., What is the mechanism of upper-

plate deformation as a result of flat-slab subduction?: Geological Society of

America National Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.

177. Phillips, F.M., Lutz, B.M., and Axen, G., 2018, Novel modes of slip partitioning in

transtensional settings inferred from data on the White Mountain fault zone,

California: Geological Society of America National Meeting, Indianapolis,

Indiana.

176. Axen, G., van Wijk, J. and Currie, C.A., 2018, Flat-slab bulldozing of basal

continental mantle lithosphere: 2D numerical models and application to the

Laramide Orogeny: New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting,

April 13, Socorro, http://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=760.

175. Sion, B. Axen, G., van Wijk, J. and Phillips, F., 2018, Geomorphic evidence for

episodic inflation above the Socorro Magma Body: Timescales and

mechanisms related to surface uplift: New Mexico Geological Society Annual

Spring Meeting, April 13, Socorro,

http://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=755.

174. Sion, B., Harrison, B., Phillips, F. and Axen, G., 2018, Effects of regional climate

differences on rates of soil development: Insights from well-dated

chronosequences in the Rio Grande rift: New Mexico Geological Society

Annual Spring Meeting, April 13, Socorro,

http://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=754.

173. Soundy, K.L., Axen, G., Maher, K. and van Wijk, J., 2018, Fault core

microstructures and their relationship to the rate of slip, West Salton

Detachment Fault, southern California: New Mexico Geological Society

Annual Spring Meeting, April 13, Socorro,

http://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=794.

172. Axen, G., van Wijk, J.W., Currie, C.A., 2018, Flat-slab bulldozing of basal

continental mantle ltihosphere during the Laramide Orogeny: Geological

Society of America Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section meeting,

Flagstaff, Arizona, 15-17 May, 2018.

171. Axen, G.J., 2018, How the Whipple detachment fault formed in the continental

brittle-plastic transition: Geological Society of America Joint Rocky

Mountain/Cordilleran Section meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona, 15-17 May, 2018.

170. van Wijk, J.W., Heyman, S. and Axen, G., 2018, What is the nature of the crust in

the northern Gulf of California and Salton Trough?: Geological Society of

America Joint Rocky Mountain/Cordilleran Section meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona,

15-17 May, 2018.

169. Lutz, B., Axen, G. and Phillips, F., 2018, New geological map and structural cross

sections of the Death Valley extended terrain: Toward 3D kinematic

reconstructions: Geological Society of America Joint Rocky Mountain-

Cordilleran Section meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona, 15-17 May, 2018.

168. Axen, G.J., van Wijk, J. and Currie, C., 2017, Bulldozing of Basal Continental

Mantle Lithosphere During Flat-Slab Subduction: American Geophysical

Union Annual Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

167. Lutz, B., Axen, G. and Phillips, F., 2017, New geological map and cross sections,

Death Valley extended terrain (southern Sierra Nevada, California to Spring

Mountains, Nevada): Toward 3D kinematic reconstructions: American

Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, New Orleans, Luoisiana.

166. Sion, B., Phillips, F.M. and Axen, G.J., 2017, Interrogating climate response

models of terrace formation in the Rio Grande Rift using 36Cl and 14C dating:

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, Paper

#111-5, https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/304153.

165. Soundy, K., Axen, G. and Leuth, V., 2017, Comparison of West Salton detachment

fault rocks between paleoseismogenic and paleocreeping sites: Poster #116,

presented at the Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, 10-

12 September, 2017, Palm Springs, California,

https://www.scec.org/publication/7724.

164. van Wijk, J., Axen, G.J., Koning, D., and Coblenz, D., 2017, The late Miocene-early

Pliocene unconformity in the Rio Grande Rift: New Mexico Geological Society

Annual Spring Meeting, Socorro, New Mexico,

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=519.

163. van Wijk, J., Yao, S. and Axen, G.J., 2017, A model for Socorro magma body

emplacement: New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting,

Socorro, New Mexico, https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?

aid=549.

162. Axen, G.J., Yao, S., Sion, B. and van Wijk, J., 2016, Timescales of processes related

to the Socorro magma body (SMB): American Geophysical Union Annual Fall

Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12-16, 2016, Abstract no. V53D-

3144, https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/142740.

161. van Wijk, J., Axen, G.J. and Koning, D., 2016, Rio Grande rift: History of tectonic

opening and magmatism: American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting,

San Francisco, California, December 12-16, 2016, Abstract no. T32C-07,

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/142466.

160. Berry, M.A., van Wijk, J., Emry, E., Axen, G.J. and Coblenz, D., 2016, The

geomorphometrics of the Rio Grande rift: The role of tectonics, climate and

erosional processes in forming the Rio Grande river: American Geophysical

Union Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12-16, 2016,

Abstract no. EP53B-0934,

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/149293.

159. Axen, G., 2016, Is layered fault-core ultracataclasite containing multiple principal

slip surfaces a common rock record of paleoseismicity? Insight from the West

Salton detachment (WSD), California: Geological Society of America Annual

Meeting, Denver, Colorado, September 25-28, 2016, Paper no. 25-11,

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper287175.html.

*158. Axen, G., Yao, S. and van Wijk, J., 2016, Active surface uplift over the Socorro

magma body (SMB), due to active inflation: Thermo-mechanical model

results: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado,

September 25-28, 2016, Paper no. 317-1,

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016AM/webprogram/Paper284053.html.

157. Yao, S., van Wijk, J., Axen, G. and Abera, R., 2016, Modeling of surface uplift

pattern due to thermal expansion above the Socorro magma body: New

Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting, Socorro, New Mexico, April

8, 2016, https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=460.

156. Dobbins, J., Axen, G., Cather, S. and Mozley, P., 2016, Structural analysis of

spectacular late Eocene soft-sediment deformation in the lower Spears

Group, Sawtooth Mountains, western New Mexico: New Mexico Geological

Society Annual Spring Meeting, Socorro, New Mexico, April 8, 2016,

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=427.

155. Sion, B., Axen, G., Phillips, F. and Harrison, B., 2015, Configuration and correlation

of fluvial terrace deposits in the lower Rio Salado valley: A record of magmatic

uplift and active normal faulting in the Rio Grande rift: American Geophysical

Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. American Geophysical Union Fall

Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/65539

154. Abera, R., van Wijk, J. and Axen, G., 2015, Formation of continental fragments:

The Tamayo Bank, Gulf of California: American Geophysical Union Fall

Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/65791

153. Murray, K., Murray, M., Sheehan, A., Nerem, R.S., van Wijk, J., and Axen, G., 2015,

GPS measurements of deformation near the Rio Grande Rift: Evidence for

variations in the rate of extension: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting,

San Francisco, CA.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/84112

152. van Wijk, J., Axen, G. and Abera, R., 2015, A new model for initiation, crustal

architecture and extinction of pull-apart basins: American Geophysical Union

Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/70047

151. Abera, R., Sion, B., van Wijk, J., Axen, G. Koning, D., Chamberlin, R., Gragg, E.,

Murray, K., and Dobbins, J., 2015, Timing, geochemistry and distribution of

magmatism in the Rio Grande rift: New Mexico Geological Society Spring

Meeting, Socorro, NM, p. 7.

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=378.

150. Dobbins, J., Axen, G., Cather, S., and Mozley, P., 2015, Structural analysis of

spectacular Eocene soft-sediment deformation in the Sawtooth Mountains,

western New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting, Socorro,

NM, p. 16. https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=321.

149. Gragg, E., Koning, D., van Wijk, J., Axen, G., Sion, B., Abera, R., Murray, K.,

Dobbins, J., Murray, M. and Chamberlin, R., 2015, Changes in Rio Grande

tectonism as inferred from subsidence Curves: New Mexico Geological Society

Spring Meeting, Socorro, NM, p. 21.

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=375.

148. Murray, K.D., Dobbins, J., Murray, M., van Wijk, J. and Axen, G., 2015, The active

Rio Grande rift: Summarizing our current understanding of present-day

deformation from geodetic and stress measurements: New Mexico Geological

Society Spring Meeting, Socorro, NM, p. 41.

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=379.

147. Sion, B.D., Axen, G.J., Phillips, F.M. and Harrison, B., 2015, Configuration and

correlation of fluvial terrace deposits in the lower Rio Salado valley: New

Mexico Geological Society Spring Meeting, Socorro, NM, p. 58.

https://nmgs.nmt.edu/meeting/abstracts/view.cfm?aid=360.

146. Axen, G.J. and Selverstone, J., 2014, Fluid control of the crustal brittle-plastic

transition during extension: Permanent embrittlement at high temperatures,

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper29799.

145. Malekpour Alamdarie, A., Axen, G.J. and Hassanzadeh, J., 2014, Interaction

between magmatism and continental extension, insight from an extensional

terrain in the Iranian Plateau, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San

Francisco, CA.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper31567.