16 Seeing through the Haze: Remote Sensing, Geophysical Investigations, Paleoseismology, and Neotectonics in Northeastern North America

Sunday, 18 March 2012
1:25 PM - 5:35 PM
Capital Room 1

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  STRUCTURAL SEISMOLOGY IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA: RECENT RESULTS AND UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES WITH EarthScope
  Maureen Long, Yale UniversityGeology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT and Margaret H. Benoit, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
  199977 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  THE SEARCH FOR POTENTIALLY SEISMICALLY ACTIVE FAULTS IN NEW ENGLAND: TARGETS FOR GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES
  John E. Ebel, Boston College, Weston, MA
  200237 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  THE EASTFORD LINEAMENT - EVIDENCE FOR A LATE-STAGE REGIONAL FRACTURE ZONE IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTH-CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF MOODUS AREA SEISMICITY
  Robert Altamura, Consulting Geologist, State College, PA and Ronald Marple, U.S. Army, Bethesda, MD and Shelton S. Alexander, Penn State University, University Park, PA and James Hurd, The University of Connecticut U-87, Room 308, Storrs, CT
  200113 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  SEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF THE EASTFORD LINEAMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RECENT MOODUS CT EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY AND OLDER FAULTING
  Shelton S. Alexander, Penn State University, University Park, PA and Ronald Marple, Bethesda, MD and Robert Altamura, Consulting Geologist, State College, PA
  200084 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF AUDIBLE EARTHQUAKES FROM MOODUS, CT: “THE MOODUS NOISES”
  Alison C. Guinness, N/A, East Haddam, CT
  200839 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR THE POST-ALLEGHANIAN BUNKER HILL FAULT ZONE AND Z FAULT IN THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL CONNECTICUT USING LIDAR AND GEOMORPHIC DATA INTEGRATED WITH FIELD INVESTIGATIONS
  Ronald Marple, Bethesda, MD and Robert Altamura, Consulting Geologist, State College, PA and James Hurd, The University of Connecticut U-87, Room 308, Storrs, CT
  200409 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  NORTHEAST POCKMARK FIELDS: SHALLOW MARINE LIQUEFACTION LANDFORMS RESULTING FROM SEISMIC EVENTS?
  Joseph T. Kelley, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Laura Brothers, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA and Daniel F. Belknap, University of Maine, Orono, ME
  200174 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  DETERMINING BEDROCK DEPTH USING THE HORIZONTAL-TO-VERTICAL SPECTRAL RATIO (HVSR) PASSIVE SEISMIC METHOD: EXAMPLES FROM THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
  Emily B. Voytek, Office of Groundwater, Branch of Geophysics, Storrs, CT and John W. Lane, Office of Groundwater, Branch of Geophysics, Storrs, CT
  200449 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  SEAFLOOR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MERRIMACK RIVER EBB TIDAL DELTA
  Abigail Lauryn Morris, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH and Shachak Pe'eri, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH and Seth Ackerman, Woods Hole, MA and William Clyde, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
  200699 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  ANALOG SEISMIC PROFILES TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL GIS MODEL: CONSTRAINING THE GEOMETRY OF SUBSURFACE PALEOCHANNELS BENEATH DELAWARE BAY AND THE MID-ATLANTIC INNER CONTINENTAL SHELF
  Daniel P. Childers, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA and Tracy Deliberty, Universilty of Delaware, Newark, DE and John Madsen, Center for Carbon-Free Power Integration, Newark, DE
  200506 (Theme Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  LIDAR-DERIVED DIGITAL ELEVATION MAPS OF MARYLAND, DELAWARE AND NEW JERSEY USED TO IDENTIFY CAROLINA BAY LANDFORMS
  Michael Davias, Cintos Research, Stamford, CT
  198892 (Theme Sessions)