263 Large Scale Continental Deformation at Plate Boundaries

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  The EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory Unified Geodetic Network
  M. Miller, UNAVCO President Emerita, Boulder, CO and Michael Jackson, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO
  151116 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  The EarthScope Rio Grande Rift GPS Experiment: Measuring Active Tectonics in Colorado and New Mexico
  Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO and Henry T. Berglund, UNAVCO, Inc, Boulder, CO and Mousumi Roy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Anthony Lowry, Utah State University, Logan, UT and R. Steven Nerem, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO and Frederick Blume, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO and Walter Szeliga, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
  149176 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  Contemporary Deformation of the Basin and Range Lithosphere from GPS Observations, and What They Imply for Continental Dynamics
  William Charles Hammond, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV and Geoff Blewitt, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Nevada Seismological Laboratory, Reno, NV and Corné Kreemer, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Nevada Seismological Laboratory, Reno, NV
  146957 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  Crustal Rotation and Deformation In the Snake River Plain and Northern Basin and Range Province
  Suzette J. Payne, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID and Robert W. King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Robert McCaffrey, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, N/A
  145395 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  Effects of the Yellowstone Hotspot and Mantle Plume on the Western U.S
  Robert Smith, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Christine Puskas, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Jamie Farrell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Wulung Chang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ, Potsdam, N/A and Richard O’Connell, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  145554 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  Pace and Tempo of Deformation in Eastern California Over the Past 3 Ma: Implications for the Geodynamic Evolution of Right-Lateral Shear along the Western Margin of the Basin and Range
  Eric Kirby, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA and J. Douglas Walker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Marith Reheis, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Fred Phillips, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Doug Burbank, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  151980 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  Insights on Lithospheric Delamination from the Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project (SNEP)
  George Zandt, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Hersh Gilbert, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Craig Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Thomas J. Owens, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
  148819 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  Imaging Large-Scale Continental Deformation across the Western United States
  Chelsea M. Allison, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  151722 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Present and Past Crustal Deformation in the Western United States: Why Are They Different?
  Mian Liu, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO and Youqing Yang, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
  150228 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  North America Dynamics and Western U.S. Tectonics
  Eugene D. Humphreys, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  148140 (Technical Sessions)