49 Tectonics: Recent Advances in Tectonics

Sunday, 9 October 2011
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 200A-C

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE AFRICA/ARABIA–ANATOLIA PLATE BOUNDARIES AND THE CENOZOIC OROGENIC BELTS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION
  Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  193812 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  A REASSESSMENT OF THE TIMING OF THE ARABIA-EURASIA COLLISION WITH REGIONAL AND GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS
  Bernard Guest, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and William A. Matthews, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  197964 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  MESOZOIC MODIFICATION OF THE ARABIAN RIFT MARGIN: CONSEQUENCES FOR CENOZOIC EVOLUTION
  William A. Matthews, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Bernard Guest, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  197823 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF OPHIOLITIC ROCKS IN THE TOKAT MASSIF, NORTH-CENTRAL TURKEY
  Kathryn G. Huber, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and E.J. Catlos, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  192900 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  TECTONIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VERY HIGH PRESSURE SUBDUCTION COMPLEX ASSEMBLAGES AND CO-EXISTING GRANITOIDS IN THE TAVSANLI ZONE, SIVRIHISAR MASSIF, TURKEY
  Timothy A. Shin, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and E.J. Catlos, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  192236 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  TECTONICS AND TETHYAN EVOLUTION OF SE ANATOLIAN OROGEN
  Nuretdin Kaymakci, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, N/A
  192393 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  SUPRADETACHMENT BASIN EVOLUTION IN CONTINENTAL EXTENSION: THE AEGEAN PROVINCE OF WESTERN ANATOLIA, TURKEY
  Zeynep Oner, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  190764 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:35 PM
  NEW CONSTRAINTS ON LATE QUATERNARY SLIP RATES ALONG THE GOBI-ALTAY FAULT IN SW MONGOLIA
  Amit Mushkin, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, N/A and Alan R. Gillespie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and James K. Feathers, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and A. Bayasgalan, Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, N/A
  198035 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  THE LONGEST JOURNEY: MANTLE PLUME, CONTINENTAL RIFTING, COLLISION TECTONICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE INDIAN PLATE
  Sankar Chatterjee, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Arghya Goswami, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX and Christopher R. Scotese, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
  190376 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:20 PM
  DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF A PLUTONIC COMPLEX IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT: GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC ANALYSES AND THEIR TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS
  Christopher W. Howard, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN and Matthew T. Huebner, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN and Robert D. Hatcher, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
  197371 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:35 PM
  NEW GEOLOGIC MAPPING AND RESEARCH IN THE GEORGE WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, CHEROKEE AND PISGAH NATIONAL FORESTS, APPALACHIAN BLUE RIDGE, VA-NC-TN
  Mark W. Carter, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Arthur J. Merschat, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Joseph Smoot, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and John N. Aleinikoff, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and Richard P. Tollo, George Washington Univ, Washington, DC and Christopher S. Holm-Denoma, U. S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  196152 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  PLATE TECTONICS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT AT THE KP BOUNDARY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR A TERRESTRIAL CAUSE IN THE GREAT KP EXTINCTION CONTROVERSY
  Paula J. Crook, University of Texas Austin, Elgin, TX
  191875 (Technical Sessions)