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?
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.