21 Ancient Basement Faults and Modern Earthquakes

Thursday, 4 April 2002
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  THE BLUE RIDGE FRONT: A FAULT SCARP REVISITED
  S. D. Ackerman, Univ of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and J. H. Knapp, Univ of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
  32529 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 8:20 AM
  FAULT REACTIVATION, SEISMIC HAZARD, AND BACKGROUND NOISE EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
  Russell L. Wheeler, USGS, Denver, CO
  31593 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  FAULT LOADING AND EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCE WITHIN LOCALIZED ZONES OF RELATIVE WEAKNESS
  Shelley J. Kenner, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  32371 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  SEISMIC REFLECTION INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE REELFOOT RIFT
  Shane Parrish, Univ of Memphis, Memphis, TN and Roy Van Arsdale, Univ of Memphis, Memphis, TN
  32477 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  CONTRASTS IN BASEMENT FAULTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BASEMENT GRABEN AND THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE
  William A. Thomas, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  32488 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  MAKING THE CASE FOR FAULT REACTIVATION IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN REGION
  John H. McBride, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and W. John Nelson, Illinois State Geol Survey, Champaign, IL
  30498 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:00 AM
  SEISMIC REFLECTION INVESTIGATION OF THE COTTAGE GROVE FAULT SYSTEM, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BASIN
  Amanda B. Duchek, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and John H. McBride, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Hannes E. Leetaru, Department of Geology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  31987 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  TERTIARY-HOLOCENE TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN SOUTHERNMOST ILLINOIS
  W. John Nelson, Illinois State Geol Survey, Champaign, IL and John H. McBride, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL and Andre J.M. Pugin, Champaign, IL and F. Brett Denny, Illinois State Geol Survey, Carterville, IL and Timothy H. Larson, Champaign, IL
  30951 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE: SMALL EARTHQUAKES ILLUMINATING MAJOR BASEMENT FAULTS?
  Martin C. Chapman, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Jeffrey W. Munsey, TVA, RSO&E, River Operations, Knoxville, TN and S. Christopher Whisner, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Jennifer Whisner, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  32405 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  BASEMENT FAULTS IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SWAN CREEK GAS FIELD
  Stephen A. Tavernier, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Richard T. Williams, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  32432 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:20 AM
  PLACING RECENT SEISMICITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE (SC) IN THE CONTEXT OF REPEATED PHANEROZOIC FAULTING
  Allen J. Dennis, Univ South Carolina - Aiken, Aiken, SC and Donald Stevenson, Aiken, SC
  32467 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:40 AM
  HISTORIC SEISMICITY IN NW SOUTH CAROLINA: REACTIVATION OF THE TRIASSIC MARIETTA-TRYON GRABEN SYSTEM?
  James H. Knapp, Columbia, SC
  32433 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)