T49 Unraveling Tectonics: The Power Behind Balanced Cross Sections and Kinematic Reconstructions

Sunday, 22 October 2006
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  PROBLEMS INHERENT WITH 2D BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS
  Robert D. Hatcher, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Peter Geiser, N/A
  115230 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  BALANCING THE MONTANA ROCKY MOUNTAIN TRIANGLE ZONE: WHAT TO DO ABOUT LAYER-PARALLEL STRAIN?
  James W. Sears, University of Montana, Missoula, MT and Patrick A. Meere, Univ College Cork, Cork, N/A and Michael D. Bradway, University of Montana, Missoula, MT and Heather M. Henry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
  109233 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  STRAIN RATE IN A TURBIDITE FOLD-THRUST BELT IN THE SOUTHWESTERN LACHLAN OROGEN, AUSTRALIA
  David Foster, Univ Florida Dept Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL and David R. Gray, Univ of Melbourne, Melbourne, N/A
  110970 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  INCORPORATING STRAIN AND MICROSTRUCTURAL DATA INTO BALANCED CROSS-SECTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR VIABILITY OF RESTORED SECTIONS
  Gautam Mitra, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
  115790 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  BALANCED CROSS-SECTIONS AND KINEMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS: AN EXAMPLE FROM WESTERN NEPAL
  Delores M. Robinson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  113138 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  WHAT SHOULD BE BALANCED IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION OF CROSS SECTIONS?
  Laurent Maerten, Igeoss, Montpellier Cedex2, N/A and Frantz Maerten, Igeoss, Montpellier Cedex2, N/A and Arnaud Arbeaumont, Igeoss, Montpellier Cedex2, N/A and Ovunc Mutlu, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and David D. Pollard, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA
  114490 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  SELF-CONSISTENT MODELS OF DECOLLEMENT FOLDING AND WEDGE MECHANICS ABOVE SALT
  Raymond Fletcher, Albuquerque, NM
  114342 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  USING BALANCED STRUCTURAL CROSS-SECTIONS TO DETERMINE STRAIN PARTITIONING FROM THE CENTRAL OUACHITAS TO THE ARKOMA FORELAND BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA
  Ibrahim Çemen, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Surinder Sahai, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Gultekin Kaya, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Wahab Sadeqi, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and William Parker, Oklahoma State Univ, Stillwater, OK and Marline Collins, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  114738 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  EXTRACTING HIGH-RESOLUTION RECORDS OF DEFORMATION FROM WELL-IMAGED SECTIONS
  John Suppe, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ and Ramon Gonzalez-Mieres, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ and Aurélia Hubert-Ferrari, Royal Observatory, Bruxelles, N/A
  111714 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE THRUST BELT ARCHITECTURE OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WESTERN FOOTHILLS OF TAIWAN
  Fernando A. Rodriguez-Roa, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and David Wiltschko, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  116271 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  THE SCIENCE IN MAKING MOVIES: ELUCIDATING THE VIABILITY OF KINEMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS
  Nadine McQuarrie, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  114730 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  GRAPHICAL METHOD THAT RELATES DISPLACEMENT FIELDS AND STRAIN FOR THE KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF DEFORMING TECTONIC ZONES: EXAMPLES FROM THE WALKER LANE, WESTERN GREAT BASIN AND ALEUTIAN ISLAND ARC, ALASKA
  Justin J. Murphy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and A. John Watkinson, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and John S. Oldow, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  116341 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  CONSTRAINTS ON LATE CRETACEOUS KINEMATICS IN THE SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA FROM STRAIN ANALYSIS AND TRANSPRESSIONAL MODELING
  Eric Horsman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI and Dyanna Czeck, Univ of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
  116522 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  POINT MARKERS: AN EMERGING APPROACH TO LARGE-SCALE RECONSTRUCTION OF CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE
  Brian Wernicke, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
  116598 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  A SUPERIMPOSED HALF-GRABEN MODEL FOR METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES
  Eric Seedorff, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  113790 (Technical Sessions)