T50 Thermal and Mechanical Significance of Gneiss Domes in the Evolution of Orogens

Sunday, 27 October 2002
1:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  CONTROLS ON GNEISS DOME FORMATION: CHICKENS, EGGS AND RED HERRINGS
  Michael Brown, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD and Tim Johnson, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD and Nathalie Marchildon, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD and Gary S. Solar, SUNY College at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  40385 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:15 PM
  GNEISS DOMES AND OROGENY
  Donna L. Whitney, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Christian Teyssier, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  42351 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EXHUMATION OF THE UPPER MUSTANG MASSIF, THAKKHOLA GRABEN, CENTRAL NEPAL HIMALAYA
  J.M. Hurtado, Univ of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX and K.V. Hodges, MIT, Cambridge, MA and Jahandar Ramezani, MIT, Cambridge, MA and Samuel A. Bowring, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  43589 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  OROGEN-PARALLEL EXTENSION AS EXPRESSED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF GNEISS DOMES: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE HIMALAYA
  Michael A. Murphy, University of Houston, Houston, TX
  42867 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  ACTIVE EXHUMATION OF A HIGH-GRADE ASYMMETRIC DOME IN THE SUTLEJ VALLEY (NW-HIMALAYAS, INDIA)
  Bernhard Grasemann, Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Erich Draganits, Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Christoph Janda, Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Christian Hager, Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Jean-Claude Vannay, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, N/A
  42435 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  COMPARING SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN PRECIPITATION AND EROSION INDEX TO DIFFERENCES IN LONG TERM EXHUMATION ALONG THE EUROPEAN ALPS
  Alison M. Anders, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA and David Montgomery, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA and Bernard Hallet, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA
  45750 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  DECOMPRESSION OF SUBDUCTED CONTINENTAL CRUST AND PARTIAL MELTING OF OROGENS
  Christian Teyssier, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Donna L. Whitney, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  42280 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  SYN-EXTENSIONAL MAGMATISM IN THE GROUSE CREEK AND ALBION MOUNTAINS METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEXES, UTAH AND IDAHO: IMPLICATIONS FOR GNEISS DOME GENESIS
  Elizabeth L. Miller, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and Anne Egger, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and Steven Forrest, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and James E. Wright, Univ Georgia, Athens, GA
  45796 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  CRETACEOUS - EARLY TERTIARY TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE VALHALLA COMPLEX, SOUTHERN OMINECA BELT, BRITISH COLUMBIA
  Sharon D. Carr, Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON and Philip S. Simony, Univ of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  45086 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  THE ROLE OF A MELT-RICH MIDDLE CRUST LAYER IN CORE COMPLEX FORMATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE SHUSWAP METAMORPHIC COMPLEX, SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA
  Paul M. Glombick, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Robert I. Thompson, Sidney, BC and Philippe Erdmer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  36940 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  A GUIDE TO DOME IMPROVEMENT, LESSON 1: IS YOUR DOME BUILT ON GRANITE OR GNEISS?
  M.A. Edwards, Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and William S.F. Kidd, Univ at Albany, Albany, NY and D.A. Schneider, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH
  44114 (Technical Sessions)