T11 Characterizing Complexity in Geomechanics, Engineering Geology, and Hydrogeology

Sunday, 2 November 2003
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  PROCESSES OF FAULT DEVELOPMENT IN A LAYERED SANDSTONE AND SHALE SEQUENCE: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE MOAB FAULT, UTAH
  Nicholas C. Davatzes, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and Atilla Aydin, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA
  58629 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  USING GEOMECHANICAL MODELING TO CONSTRAIN THE 3-D FAULT GEOMETRY WITHIN THE WESTERN MARMARA SEA, TURKEY
  Jordan R. Muller, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and Atilla Aydin, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA
  59836 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  COMPACTION BANDS AS ANTICRACKS IN SANDSTONE: TAMING COMPLEXITY THROUGH INTEGRATED OBSERVATION, EXPERIMENTATION AND PROCESS-BASED SIMULATION
  Kurt Sternlof, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and David Pollard, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA and Gaurav Chopra, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA
  61902 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  DEFORMATION BANDS IN NONWELDED IGNIMBRITES: PETROPHYSICAL CONTROLS ON FAULT-ZONE DEFORMATION AND EVIDENCE OF PREFERENTIAL FLUID FLOW
  Jennifer E. Wilson, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Laurel B. Goodwin, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Claudia J. Lewis, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM
  63426 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  FIELD-BASED ANALYSIS OF INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC CONTROLS ON FAULT-ZONE DEFORMATION PROCESSES IN POORLY LITHIFIED MATERIALS, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR HYDROLOGIC STUDIES
  Laurel B. Goodwin, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Jennifer E. Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM and Geoffrey C. Rawling, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
  66788 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:20 AM
  APPLYING POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIPS IN GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERIZATION
  Jeffrey R. Keaton, AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc, Anaheim, CA and Michael L. Rucker, AMEC Earth & Environmental, Phoenix, AZ
  63852 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:35 AM
  STOCHASTIC MODELS OF FRACTURE NETWORKS BASED ON MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY
  Michele Cooke, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Chad Underwood, Montgomery-Watson, Madison, WI and Toni Simo, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Maureen Muldoon, UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
  63918 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF 3-D BLOCK POPULATIONS TO CHARACTERIZE BOREHOLE AND OUTCROP SAMPLING BIAS
  William C. Haneberg, Haneberg Geoscience, Port Orchard, WA
  59731 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:25 AM
  IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHARACTERIZING TECTONIC MELANGE FOR TUNNELLING
  Edward A. Button, Graz Univ of Technology, Grazt, N/A
  60911 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  CONFIRMATION OF SUBSURFACE GEOLOGIC CONDITIONS OF THE UC BERKELEY STANLEY HALL REPLACEMENT PROJECT BY CONSTRUCTION FIELD OBSERVATIONS
  William H. Godwin, Novato, N/A and John Ryan Shafer, Oakland, CA and Christian P. Muller, Oakland, CA
  57326 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  INCREASES IN SLOPE STABILITY OF ROCK/SOIL MIXTURES DUE TO TORTUOSITY OF FAILURE SURFACES AROUND ROCK BLOCKS
  Edmund W. Medley, Exponent Failure Analysis Association, Menlo Park, CA
  63710 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  GEOMECHANICAL MODELLING OF COMPLEX ROCK FAILURE MECHANISMS
  Douglas Stead, Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC and John Coggan, Univ of Exeter, Cornwall, N/A and Erik Eberhardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, N/A
  61716 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  STATE-OF-THE-PRACTICE IN CHARACTERIZATION OF LANDSLIDE PRONE TERRAIN USING REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS, GLOBAL POSITIONING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
  J. David Rogers, Univ of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO and Kevin L. James, Univ of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO
  64206 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  CHARACTERIZING THE LANDSLIDE HAZARD OF NORTHEASTERN KANSAS USING MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION
  Gregory C. Ohlmacher, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and John C. Davis, Davis Consultants Inc, Baldwin City, KS
  66774 (Technical Sessions)