T55 Controversies, Conundrums, and Innovative Approaches in Extensional Tectonics: A Tribute to Ernie Anderson

Sunday, 16 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:40 PM
  EXTENSION AND MAGMATISM IN THE NORTHERN COLORADO RIVER CORRIDOR: ERNIE'S CONUNDRUMS REVISITED
  Phillip B. Gans, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  96803 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  CONSTRAINTS ON THE COMPLEX MIOCENE DEFORMATIONAL HISTORY OF THE LAKE MEAD AREA USING DETAILED BASIN ANALYSIS: NEW DATA FROM THE EAST AND WEST LONGWELL RIDGE AREA, BITTER SPRING QUAD, NV
  Melissa A. Lamb, Univ of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN and Thomas Hickson, Univ of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN and Kevin Luke Martin, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ and Linda Beard, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ
  94032 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  ONGOING STUDIES OF TILTING AND UPLIFT IN THE SOUTH VIRGIN MOUNTAINS, NEVADA
  Robert J. Brady, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  95975 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURAL RELIEF IN BROAD EXTENDED DOMAINS: THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF DEFORMATION IN THE MIDDLE-CRUST
  Robert G. Bohannon, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  91762 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  KEY STEPS IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF A METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX: A VIEW FROM THE “ARIZONA SCHOOL” OF THOUGHT
  Stephen J. Reynolds, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  97644 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  FIELD AND PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF MYLONITIC FABRICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECTONIC CORRGUATION DEVELOPMENT, TANQUE VERDE RIDGE, ARIZONA, USA
  Ethan R. Perry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Sharon Mosher, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  89753 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX EVOLUTION: INSIGHTS FROM THE SIERRA MAZATÁN CASE STUDY
  Martin S. Wong, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Phillip Gans, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  97639 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER FAULT ZONE, SOUTHEASTERN CANADIAN CORDILLERA : INSIGHTS FROM STRATIGRAPHIC AND THERMOBAROMETRIC CONSTRAINTS
  Yvon Lemieux, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Robert I. Thompson, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC and Philippe Erdmer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Thomas Chacko, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  93748 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  A CHINESE CONUNDRUM — CAN A TRIASSIC METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX IN NORTHERN CHINA BE BETTER EXPLAINED BY MID- PALEOZOIC THRUST FAULTING?: A NEW INTERPRETATION FOR THE WESTERN HILLS "METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX" OF BEIJING
  Gregory A. Davis, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  91279 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  EXHUMATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE ROCKS BY PERVASIVE BRITTLE THINNING OF THE UPPER CRUST, CRETE, GREECE
  Jeffrey M. Rahl, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Mark T. Brandon, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Kristin M. Anderson, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Charalambos Fassoulas, University of Crete, Heraklion, N/A
  93368 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  STRAIN LOCALIZATION WITHIN THE DUCTILE AND BRITTLE REGIMES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATLANTIS BANK OCEANIC DETACHMENT FAULT SYSTEM, SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE
  Elena A. Miranda, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Greg Hirth, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA and Barbara John, Univ Wyoming Dept Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY
  92850 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  TRACKING THE ALONG-STRIKE DEVELOPMENT OF NORMAL-FAULT SYSTEMS: A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING PROCESSES OF LARGE-MAGNITUDE EXTENSION
  James E. Faulds, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
  92526 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  TECTONIC MEGAOSCILLATORS: IMPLICATIONS FOR LARGE-SCALE STRESS TRANSFER IN THE LITHOSPHERE
  Brian Wernicke, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Nathan Niemi, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and James L. Davis, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA and Sunil Bisnath, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA and Pedro Elosegui, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA
  96874 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  WHAT STORY DO WE BEGIN WITH FIRST?
  John W. Geissman, University of New Mesico, Albuquerque, NM and Mary Lou Zoback, USGS, Menlo Park, CA
  98240 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  LOW-ANGLE NORMAL FAULTS: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND RESEARCH NEEDS
  R. Ernest Anderson, Kernville, CA
  97685 (Technical Sessions)