Geological Society of America

8:10 AM

EVOLVING MID-CRUSTAL FLOW ALONG THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU; AMA DRIME AND MOUNT EVEREST MASSIFS, TIBET

Micah Jessup, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and John Cottle, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

160628 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

HOW FAST CAN A PLATEAU LOWER CRUST FLOW?

Patrice Rey, The University of Sydney, Sydney and Christian Teyssier, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Donna L. Whitney, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

161089 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

HIGH HIMALAYAN LEUCOGRANITES INDICATE BRIEF (≤3 MYR) DUCTILE EXTENSION OF THE STDS

Matthew Kohn, Boise State University, Boise, ID and H. Sachan, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, N/A and A. Saxena, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, N/A and Stacey L. Corrie, Boise State University, Boise, ID

164043 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

PLACING LIMITS ON CHANNEL FLOW: IS CENTRAL BHUTAN STD-FREE?

Sean P. Long, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and Nadine McQuarrie, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

163438 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

EXHUMATION DEPTHS OF THE LOWER CRUSTAL DOMES OF THE PAMIR

Jennifer L. McGraw, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Bradley R. Hacker, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA and Lothar Ratschbacher, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg/SA, N/A

161706 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

GEOCHRONOLOGICAL AND MICRO-FABRIC CONSTRAINTS ON PULSED EXTRUSION OF THE METAMORPHIC CORE IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYA (BHUTAN)

Jennifer A. Chambers, Boise State University, Boise, ID and Randall R. Parrish, University of Leicester, Keyworth, N/A and Tom Argles, The Open University, Milton Keynes, N/A and Nigel Harris, The Open University, Milton Keynes, N/A and Matthew Horstwood, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, N/A

164645 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

THE P-T-T PATH OF METAPELITES FROM FAR-EASTERN NEPAL HIMALAYA

Takeshi Imayama, Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, N/A and Toru Takeshita, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo and Kouki Kitajima, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Yukiyasu Tsutsumi, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, N/A and Kazunori Arita, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, N/A and Yuji Sano, Univ. Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A

160345 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

LATERALLY FORCED OVERTURNS AND HORIZONTAL CHANNEL FLOW OF OROGENIC LOWER CRUST IN OROGENS

Karel Schulmann, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, N/A

161120 (Technical Sessions)

10:20 AM

EXHUMATION OF DEEP MOUNTAIN ROOTS THROUGH A MID-CRUSTAL EXTRUSION CORRIDOR: P-T-T CONSTRAINTS ON VARISCAN ECLOGITES & MIGMATITES, WESTERN TATRA, SLOVAKIA

Yves Moussallam, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON and David Schneider, University of Ottawa Department of Earth Sciences, Ottawa, ON and Marian Janak, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, N/A and Martin Thoni, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Thomas Ulrich, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON

160695 (Technical Sessions)

10:35 AM

MID-CARBONIFEROUS CONGLOMERATES IN SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE RECORD EARLY VARISCAN INTRACONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE: EVIDENCE THAT CHANNELS WERE EXHUMED BEFORE THERMAL WEAKENING OF THE LITHOSPHERE

F.J. Martinez, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, N/A and C. Dietsch, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and John N. Aleinikoff, USGS, Denver, CO and Jordi Cries, Institut Geologic de Catalunya, 08006 Barcelona, N/A

166105 (Technical Sessions)

10:50 AM

ANATOMY OF A 10-KM-SCALE SHEATH FOLD AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FLOW AT GRANULITE FACIES CONDITIONS IN THE DEEP CRUST

Chloe E. Bonamici, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Laurel Goodwin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

165597 (Technical Sessions)

11:05 AM

GRANITE PLUTONISM DURING CRUSTAL CHANNEL FLOW

Christopher L. Andronicos, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Jason Phipps Morgan, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

163987 (Technical Sessions)

11:25 AM

TESTING THE SYNCONVERGENT CHANNEL FLOW MODEL IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CANADIAN CORDILLERA

Félix Gervais, McGill University, Montreal, QC and Richard L. Brown, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON and Andrew Hynes, McGill University, Montreal, QC and E.D. Ghent, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

166544 (Technical Sessions)

11:40 AM

STRUCTURAL AND U-TH-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES INDICATE THAT THE CENTRAL HIMALAYA DEVELOPED VIA TECTONIC WEDGING

A. Alexander G. Webb, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Axel K. Schmitt, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

162730 (Technical Sessions)

T230 Evaluating Channel Flow in Orogens

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