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Activity

2020

• UNSCRAMBLING THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT AND GRENVILLE FRONT USING GRAVITY DATA
  46 The Grenville Orogen in Eastern North America (Posters)
  Saturday, 21 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• THE COLORADO PLATEAU'S LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE AND ANALOGIES WITH SIMILAR TECTONIC FEATURES
  T160 Grand Canyon, Colorado Plateau, and Rocky Mountain Debates and Their Global Reverberations, 150 Years after Powell II
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 221AB, North Building
• CONTROVERSIES ABOUT THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT'S HISTORY AND GRENVILLE-AGE DEFORMATION DURING RODINIA'S FORMATION
  T205 Unconventional Ideas and Outrageous Hypotheses (Posters): In Honor of Warren B. Hamilton
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building

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2018

• IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GRENVILLE OROGENY AND ASSEMBLY OF RODINIA FROM GRAVITY ANOMALIES ALONG THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT AND GRENVILLE FRONT IN CANADA
  T158 Beyond EarthScope in the Eastern U.S.—What We've Learned and What Needs Doing Next
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239
• BARSCOPE - EXTENDING EARTHSCOPE BETWEEN THE APPALACHIANS AND THE ROCKIES
  T158 Beyond EarthScope in the Eastern U.S.—What We've Learned and What Needs Doing Next
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239
• A SEISMIC EXPERIMENT TO INVESTIGATE MAJOR CRUSTAL-SCALE STRUCTURES IN EASTERN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE
  T158 Beyond EarthScope in the Eastern U.S.—What We've Learned and What Needs Doing Next
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 238-239
• USING SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS TO MITIGATE THE HAZARD FROM EARTHQUAKES DUE TO OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
  T208 Earthquakes and Deformation in Eastern North America and Other Continental Interiors: What We Know, What We Don’t, What We Think, and Which Is Which?
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 238-239
• OPENING OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT DURING THE ASSEMBLY OF RODINIA
  T91 Different Roads to Rodinia: Re-Analysis of the Geochronology and Tectonic Evolution of Precambrian Sedimentary and Crystalline Basement Terranes in Southeastern Laurentia
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242
• PRECAMBRIAN RIFT SYSTEMS IN NORTH AMERICA COMPARED TO OTHER CONTINENTAL RIFTS AROUND THE WORLD
  T16 Evolution of the Midcontinent Rift: A Window into Proterozoic Environments, a Repository of Minerals, and a Lesson in Rifting I
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 242

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2017

• THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT: A RIFT-LIP HYBRID
  191 D40. Structural Geology and Tectonics: Advances in Understanding Fault Systems, Plate Boundaries and Deformation: Observations and Experiments
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 3
• SHOULD THE "GRENVILLE FRONT" IN THE CENTRAL U.S. BE ERASED FROM GEOLOGIC MAPS?
  T120 Cratonic Assembly in the Precambrian: Forming the Core of Modern and Ancient Landmasses
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 604
• REGIONAL CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE SOUTH-CENTRAL US AND ITS TECTONIC EVOLUTION: A REVIEW
  15 Late Paleozoic Tectonic Framework of the South-Central Region and Evolution of the Permian Basin
  Tuesday, 14 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 10:20 AM

  Grand Ballroom A

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2016

• TRANSCONTINENTAL GEOLOGIC AND GEOPHYSICAL CROSS SECTION I: EASTERN SEGMENT
  T244 Structure and Tectonics of the South-Central United States (Posters): Craton to Gulf of Mexico and the Annual George P. Woollard Award Presentation
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• TRANSCONTINENTAL GEOLOGIC AND GEOPHYSICAL CROSS SECTION II: WESTERN SEGMENT
  T244 Structure and Tectonics of the South-Central United States (Posters): Craton to Gulf of Mexico and the Annual George P. Woollard Award Presentation
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• STRUCTURAL AND PETROLOGICAL INSIGHTS AND CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE WICHITA AND ARBUCKLE SEGMENTS OF THE SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AULACOGEN AS REVEALED BY DEEP DRILLING INTO RIFT-RELATED ROCKS
  T130 Structure and Tectonics of the South-Central United States: Craton to Gulf of Mexico and the Annual George P. Woollard Award Presentation
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 407
• LITHOSPHERIC BLOCKS AND RIFTING IN CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA: STRUCTURE, TECTONICS, AND GLOBAL ANALOGS
  T7 Precambrian Evolution and Mineral Resources of the Midcontinent Rift Region I: In Honor of William J. Hinze
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 407
• NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  15 Structure, Geophysics, Petrology, and Tectonics in the Midcontinent, and Elsewhere
  Monday, 18 April 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lincoln Room
• VARIATIONS IN LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE ALONG THE OUACHITA OROGENIC BELT
  19 Big Geoscientific Problems in the South-Central Region
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Governor Room

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2015

• REFLECTIONS ON THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE MID-CONTINENT REGION, USA
  T181 Advances in Crustal Geophysics and Tectonics I: In Honor of G.R. Keller
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 347/348
• NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  T181 Advances in Crustal Geophysics and Tectonics I: In Honor of G.R. Keller
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 347/348
• AN INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL AND GEODYNAMIC STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF THE LONGMENSHAN REGION, EASTERN TIBET
  T146 Bridging Two Continents: New Insights into the Mechanisms of Continental Deformation from Sinoprobe Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling And Receiver-Function Studies Of The Lithosphere
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

  Room 347/348
• SINO-US COOPERATION ON DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION/REFRACTION STUDIES AND EDUCATION FOCUSED ON CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: RESULTS OF COOPERATION ON THE LONGMEN SHAN AND LIUPAN SHAN IN THE EASTERN AND NORTHEASTERN MARGINS OF TIBETAN PLATEAU
  T146 Bridging Two Continents: New Insights into the Mechanisms of Continental Deformation from Sinoprobe Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling And Receiver-Function Studies Of The Lithosphere
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

  Room 347/348
• ­NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  16 New Insights into the Midcontinent Rift and Continental Rifting
  Tuesday, 19 May 2015

  1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

  Hall of Ideas H
• THE ROLE OF RIFTING IN THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE OKLAHOMA REGION
  2 East African Rift, Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, Rio Grande Rift, and other Continental Rifts: A Tribute to the Career of G. Randy Keller
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Case Study 1
• GRAVITY ANALYSIS OF THE CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT
  2 East African Rift, Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, Rio Grande Rift, and other Continental Rifts: A Tribute to the Career of G. Randy Keller
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Case Study 1

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2014

• INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FORTH WORTH BASIN, OUACHITA OROGENIC BELT, NORTH TEXAS
  T134 Geophysical Solutions to Geological Problems: Current Research Results and the Annual George P. Woollard Award Presentation (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• MID-CONTINENT RIFT: RIFT, LIP, OR BOTH AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RODINIA RECONSTRUCTIONS
  T148 Birth and Death of Supercontinents
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  118
• THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT – HOW FAR DOES IT GO?
  9 The Midcontinent Rift System and Beyond: New Developments in Central North American Precambrian Geology
  Thursday, 24 April 2014

  2:40 PM - 5:05 PM

  Arbor 1

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2013

• SOME NORTH AMERICAN EXAMPLES OF THE GEOLOGIC IMPACT OF SEISMIC MODELS OF LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE
  T316 Use of Seismic Models in Non-Seismology Studies
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 304
• FAILURE WAS NOT AN OPTION- THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM SUCCEEDED
  T182 From Extension to Rift to Drift: Geological, Geophysical, and Geodynamic Perspectives
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507
• THE MOHO OF NORTH AMERICA: A REVIEW
  T15 The Structure and Evolution of the North American Lithosphere: An Integrated Perspective
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 401
• THE OUACHITA OROGENIC BELT: SOME NEW RESULTS AND THOUGHTS ON ITS STRUCTURE, AND EVOLUTION
  33 The Ouachita Orogenic Belt: Structure, Foreland Basins, Tectonics, and Geophysics
  Friday, 5 April 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Classroom 101
• RESOLVING GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE FOR A REACTIVATED CAMBRIAN PLATE BOUNDARY BENEATH THE OUACHITA OROGEN: THE ALABAMA-OKLAHOMA TRANSFORM FAULT
  33 The Ouachita Orogenic Belt: Structure, Foreland Basins, Tectonics, and Geophysics
  Friday, 5 April 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Classroom 101
• INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL AND TECTONIC STUDIES OF THE CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE IN THE SOUTHERN MID-CONTINENT REGION
  11 Tectonic Evolution of South-Central Laurentia I: Megacontinents and Exotic Terranes, Orogenic Belts and Rifts: Celebrating the Career of Wm. R. Muehlberger
  Thursday, 4 April 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Classroom 105
• TRANSCONTINENTAL GEOLOGIC SECTION THROUGH THE NORTH AMERICAN PLATE NEAR 36° LATITUDE: ATLANTIC OCEAN CRUST TO PACIFIC OCEAN CRUST—A TRIBUTE TO BILL MUEHLBERGER
  11 Tectonic Evolution of South-Central Laurentia I: Megacontinents and Exotic Terranes, Orogenic Belts and Rifts: Celebrating the Career of Wm. R. Muehlberger
  Thursday, 4 April 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Classroom 105

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2012

• ORIGIN OF THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT AND MAGMA VOLUMES
  T215 EarthScope and Geoprisms in Eastern North America: Ongoing Endeavors and a Look Ahead
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  203B

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2011

• GEOPHYSICAL IMAGES OF THE FORMATION AND DEFORMATION OF SOUTHERN LAURENTIA
  T229 Exploring Subsurface Terranes and Buried Basins of Eastern and Central North America—Geology, Geophysics, and Geochronology
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200A-C
• GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING OF THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS BATHOLITH COMPLEX, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO
  T272 Recent Advances in Studies of Large-Volume Silicic Volcanism: Stratigraphy, Architecture, Evolution
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 101FG
• ICON: A FUTURE EarthScope PROJECT RESOLVING THE 4D-RECORD OF INCIPIENT CONTINENTAL COLLISION IN THE OUACHITA OROGEN
  143 The EarthScope Program: Recent Results and Future Projects
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 101A-C
• INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF CENTRAL EUROPE
  T51 Combining Geology and Geophysics
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 101H-J
• THE SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AULACOGEN: 300 MILLION YEARS OF INTRAPLATE TECTONIC INVERSION INCLUDING REPEATED EPISODES OF HOLOCENE REACTIVATION
  33 The Challenge of Understanding Continental Intraplate Earthquakes
  Tuesday, 6 September 2011

  2:00 PM - 5:05 PM

  A 016

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2010

• NEW INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION IN THE CENTRAL U. S
  T163 Combining Geophysics and Geology: The George P. Woollard Award Session
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2AB/3AB
• AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EXTERNAL PRE-RIF OF NORTHERN MOROCCO USING GRAVITY AND SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA
  45 Tectonics, Volcanology, Petrology (Posters)
  Tuesday, 13 April 2010

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Taneycomo A
• SOME NEW OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF RIFTING IN THE MID-CONTINENT REGION
  2 Lithospheric Structure of the Mid-Continent Region: What We Know, What We Need to Know, and What EarthScope Can Tell Us
  Sunday, 11 April 2010

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Compton Ferry

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2009

• CRUSTAL STRUCTURE IN THE HIGH LAVA PLAINS REGION FROM INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES
  224 Geodynamics from the Cascadia Margin to the High Lava Plains
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254
• GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS ACCRETIONARY SUPERTERRANE
  T182 Living on the Edge: Deformation along the Cascadia Margin (Posters)
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• TRANSCONTINENTAL GEOLOGIC CROSS SECTION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PLATE NEAR 36° LATITUDE, PART II: ATLANTIC OCEAN CRUST TO THE MID-CONTINENT
  37 Tectonics: Advances in Understanding Tectonics and Orogenesis Ancient and Modern (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF 1.1 GA AND CAMBRIAN RIFTING IN SOUTHERN LAURENTIA?
  11 A View from the Craton Southward into the Gulf of Mexico: The Geology and Geophysics of Transitions: Celebrating the Career of R.E. (Tim) Denison II
  Tuesday, 17 March 2009

  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
• BROADBAND SEISMIC STUDY OF THE TEXAS CONTINENT-OCEAN BOUNDARY: A PILOT PROJECT
  11 A View from the Craton Southward into the Gulf of Mexico: The Geology and Geophysics of Transitions: Celebrating the Career of R.E. (Tim) Denison II
  Tuesday, 17 March 2009

  10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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2008

• New Observations on the Extent of Cambrian Rifting In Colorado: An Update
  T341 Evolution of the Lithosphere and Upper Mantle in the Western U.S.
  Thursday, 9 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Is the Wyoming Craton Being Decratonized?
  T233 EarthScope: Bringing Geology and Geophysics Together to Study the 4-D Evolution of the Lithosphere
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• TOWARDS AN OPENEARTH FRAMEWORK (OEF)
  5 Geoinformatics Oral Session III
  Friday, 13 June 2008

  9:00 AM - 4:20 PM
• DATA INTEGRATION USING THE IMAGE GRAND TOUR
  2 Geoinformatics Oral Session II
  Thursday, 12 June 2008

  9:00 AM - 3:40 PM
• SOME NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE EXTENT OF THE SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AULACOGEN AND ITS HISTORY OF VERTICAL MOVEMENTS
  14 GIS, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology, and Tectonics
  Tuesday, 1 April 2008

  1:00 PM - 4:20 PM

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2007

• A REGIONAL GEOPHYSICAL OVERVIEW OF THE GEOSWATH: PACIFIC NORTHWEST TO THE APPALACHIANS
  T229 A Synoptic Crustal Section from the Cascadia Margin to the Southern Appalachians: Focusing EarthScope Research on Crustal Domains, their Boundaries, and Fundamental Processes of the U.S. Continent
  Wednesday, 31 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• A NEW LOOK AT LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN-RIO GRANDE RIFT REGION
  T101 The Structure, Composition and Evolution of the Lithosphere of Western North America II
  Monday, 29 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SEISMIC STRUCTURE AT CIMA VOLCANIC FIELD FROM MANTLE XENOLITHS: AN INTEGRATED STUDY OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS IN WALKER LANE
  T101 The Structure, Composition and Evolution of the Lithosphere of Western North America II
  Monday, 29 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• A COMMUNITY WORKSHOP AND EMERGING ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT A NATIONAL GEOINFORMATICS SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES
  4 Geoinformatics Oral Session II
  Friday, 18 May 2007

  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• AN INTEGRATION SCHEME FOR GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF THE CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE: AN UPDATE
  3 Geoinformatics Poster Session
  Thursday, 17 May 2007

  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

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• A Comparative Study of the Basin and Range and the Extended Eastern North China Block
  T251 EarthScope: Bringing Geology and Geophysics Together to Study the 4-D Evolution of the Lithosphere (Posters)
• Continental Growth in East Asia and North America: A Comparison
  T251 EarthScope: Bringing Geology and Geophysics Together to Study the 4-D Evolution of the Lithosphere (Posters)
• A New Integrated Analysis of Crustal Structure across the Proterozoic Cheyenne Belt Suture
  T251 EarthScope: Bringing Geology and Geophysics Together to Study the 4-D Evolution of the Lithosphere (Posters)
• Developing An OpenEarth Framework (OEF)
  142 Geoinformatics (Posters)
• The Trans-Hudson and Trans-North China Orogens: A Comparison Based on Geologic and Geophysical Observations
  T251 EarthScope: Bringing Geology and Geophysics Together to Study the 4-D Evolution of the Lithosphere (Posters)
• NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE EXTENT OF CAMBRIAN RIFTING IN COLORADO
  173 Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology (Posters)