INSTOC Symposium – 50 years of exploring continents: COCORP to the future
INSTOC Symposium – 50 years of exploring continents: COCORP to the future
June 9, 2025; Ithaca, NY
Celebrating COCORP and the career of Larry Brown.
The Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) pioneered the use of multichannel seismic reflection profiling for the systematic exploration of the continental lithosphere. COCORP-type profiles routinely probe to the base of the crust and frequently deeper. COCORP has collected over eleven thousand kilometers of profiling at thirty sites in the United States. Among the best known of COCORP’s US results are its demonstration of large-scale, low-angle thrust faulting in the Appalachians; confirmation of a thrust origin for Laramide basement uplifts; delineation of the variable character of the continental Moho, including new evidence for its post-orogenic re-equilibration, its multi-genetic origin (including phase changes) and possible role as a structural detachment; magma “bright spots” beneath Cenozoic rifts of the western US; crustal-scale detachment faults in the eastern Basin and Range; mapping of major buried Precambrian layered sequences in interior U.S.; and definition of crustal shear zones marking major Proterzoic sutures of the buried craton.
Register here by May 19.
Organized by the Institute for the Study of the Continents (INSTOC).
