Western U.S. Geodynamics Workshop

August 29 – September 1, 2006

Aspen Meadows Resort Hotel

Aspen, Colorado

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Group arrives at Aspen Meadows Resort Hotel

Hefner Room

6:00 - 7:00 Registration Reception                                                                                                     

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Meadows Restaurant, reserved tables

7:00 – 7:45 a.m. Breakfast                                                                             

7:45 a.m.  Group will eat breakfast then proceed to pick up box lunches for the field trip.                                                                                  

6:30 p.m. – Depart to local restaurant for Group Dinner        

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Meadows Restaurant, reserved tables

7:00 - 8:00 - Breakfast

Lauder Seminar Room

8:00 - CREST Overview                                                                                 Karl Karlstrom

8:30 - Sesimic Overview                                                                                 Ken Dueker

9:00-    Some Fundamental Questions Regarding Interior Western

U.S. Mantle Structure                                                                         Rick Aster

9:30-    Colorado Plateau Crust and Upper Mantle Structure:

Implications for Uplift Mechanisms                                                    Dave Wilson

Koch Lobby

10:00- Break

10:30- The Geoid, Colorado Plateau and Western US Geodynamics Clem Chase

11:00- A Reassessment of the Origin of Late Cretaceous and Mid-

            Tertiary Igneous Activity in Colorado                                     Lang Farmer

11:30- Regional exhumation patterns across the Colorado Plateau                 Sheri Kelley

Meadows Restaurant, reserved tables

12:00 - Lunch

1:00-    Ancient Lithospheric Structure of the Colorado mineral
            belt and relation to the Aspen anomaly.                                                Colin Shaw

1:30-    Late Cenozoic Incision along the Arkansas River,
            Colorado: Preliminary Data on Timing, Magnitudes and Rates          Eric Leonard

Koch Lobby

2:00-    Break

2:30-    Breakout Groups

3:30-    Group Reports

4:30-    Adjourn

6 :30-   Depart to local Restaurant for Group Dinner

Friday, September 1, 2006

Meadows Restaurant, reserved tables

7:00 - 8:00 - Breakfast

Lauder Seminar Room

8:00 - 10:00 - General Session

Koch Lobby

10:00 – Break

11:00 – 12:00 – General Session

1:00 - Adjourn