Geological Society of America

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199871 (Symposia Sessions)

8:40 AM

OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE AND SYN-OROGENIC EXTENSION IN ACTIVE ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION: CONSTRAINED BY EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS IN SOUTH CENTRAL TAIWAN

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200647 (Symposia Sessions)

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200344 (Symposia Sessions)

10:20 AM

COMPARING MODERN AND ANCIENT OROGENS: HIMALAYAS AND APPALACHIANS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

Robert D. Hatcher, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN and Micah Jessup, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN

200706 (Symposia Sessions)

10:40 AM

TRANSPRESSION AND EXTRUSION IN SOUTH-CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND RESULTING FROM LATE PALEOZOIC OBLIQUE COLLISION

Matthew Massey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and David Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

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David Corrigan, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON

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11:40 AM

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