GGP Seminar: Dr. Tandis Bidgoli - "Resolving space-time strain paths in the central Basin and Range through bedrock thermochronology"

Dr. Tanids Bidgoli is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri (MU), Department of Geological Sciences. Before joining MU in 2018, she held appointments with the University of Kansas as an assistant scientist with the Kansas Geological Survey and as a courtesy assistant professor with the Department of Geology (2014-2018). Previously, she was an exploration geologist with ExxonMobil (2005-2013). Her research focuses on evaluating temporal and spatial patterns of strain, with the ultimate goal of understanding the mechanisms and drivers of deformation and landscape evolution. Her research integrates traditional field mapping and structural analysis methods with geochronology and low-temperature thermochronology. Major areas of interest are the Great Basin in Nevada and California, southeastern China and the U.S. midcontinent.

Her presentation will discuss the current form of the Pacific-North American plate boundary is the result of a complex evolution from a subduction zone to a transform boundary. Changes in the kinematics and dynamics of the plate boundary have predictable consequences for deformation within the central Basin and Range, southern Nevada and eastern California. However, uncertainties in the timing, magnitude, and spatial distribution of extension and later transtension have made reconstructions of Cenozoic interplate deformation difficult. The results from recent low-temperature thermochronologic investigations, integrated with published geologic and structural data, are used to address two main questions in her presentation.

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