Geological Society of America

8:15 AM

DRIVING MECHANISM AND DYNAMIC FRAMEWORK OF PLATE TECTONICS: IMPLICATIONS OF TOP-SIDE TECTONICS

Warren B. Hamilton, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Don L. Anderson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

40440 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

WILSON CYCLES, TECTONIC INHERITANCE, AND RIFTING OF THE U.S. ATLANTIC AND GULF OF MEXICO MARGINS

Dennis L. Harry, Univ of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL and Audrey D. Huerta, Univ of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL

44397 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

POSSIBLE SEISMIC DISCONTINUITIES IN THE LOWER MANTLE

Kelly H. Liu, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS and Stephen S. Gao, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS

46279 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

TOWARD A RECONCILIATION OF SEISMIC REFLECTION AND GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ACROSS AN INTERNAL BASEMENT MASSIF, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS, USA: PINE MOUNTAIN WINDOW

John H. McBride, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Robert D. Hatcher, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and William J. Stephenson, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO

39922 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

EXTENSIONAL AND STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING INTERACTIONS IN THE NORTHERN SIERRAN – GREAT BASIN TRANSITION ZONE INFERRED FROM NEW INTEGRATED GRAVITY DATA

Gary L. Oppliger, Univ of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV and Michael Widmer, Washoe County, Reno, NV and James E. Faulds, Univ of Nevada Reno, Reno, N/A and Christopher D. Henry, Univ of Nevada Reno, Reno, N/A

45683 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

DATE AND ORIGIN OF FLUID FLOW EVENTS ALONG THE MOINE THRUST, NORTHERN SCOTLAND

Raleigh D. Blumstein, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and R. Douglas Elmore, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael H. Engel, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and John Parnell, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, N/A

43814 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

MAPPING THE COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION OF THE SERPENTINE MINERAL CHRYSOTILE RELATIVE TO EFFECTIVE NORMAL STRESS AND TEMPERATURE

Diane Moore, US Geological Survey MS 977, Menlo Park, CA and David A. Lockner, U. S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Hidemi Tanaka, Univ of Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A and Kengo Iwata, Ehime Univ, Matsuyama, N/A

41162 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

EVALUATION OF EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL FOR CHINA: A GEOLOGICAL APPROACH

Yufang Rong, Univ of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and David D. Jackson, Univ of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

42914 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

PALEOMAGNETISM OF UPPER TRIASSIC (CHUGWATER GROUP) STRATA ON THE NORTHEAST FLANK OF THE GROS VENTRE RANGE, NORTHWEST WYOMING, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDE-STYLE DEFORMATION

Christopher J. Purcell, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and John W. Geissman, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

41933 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

PALEOMAGNETIC DATING OF BURIAL DIAGENESIS IN THE DESERET LIMESTONE, UTAH

Angela Miller, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and R. Douglas Elmore, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael H. Engel, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

44584 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

PALEOMAGNETIC DATING OF CLASTIC DIKES IN PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT, NORTHWEST SCOTLAND: EVIDENCE FOR SYNDEPOSITIONAL FAULTING DURING DEPOSITION OF THE TORRIDONIAN

Shannon Myers-Dulin, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and R. Douglas Elmore, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael H. Engel, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and John Parnell, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, N/A and Jason Kelly, Univ of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, N/A

44836 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY AND CLAMP ANALYSIS OF THE EARLY TERTIARY CHUCKANUT FORMATION, NORTHWEST WASHINGTON

Linda Donohoo, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA and Bernie Housen, Western Washignton Univ, Bellingham, WA and George Mustoe, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA

45190 (Technical Sessions)

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