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Activity

2025

• WHAT'S GOING ON TECTONICALLY IN THE MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT DURING EOCENE?
  12 D3. North American Rifts, Faults, and Tectonic Activity
  Monday, 10 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  114
• THE REELFOOT RIFT - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
  12 D3. North American Rifts, Faults, and Tectonic Activity
  Monday, 10 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  114

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2024

• LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM PALEOWIND DIRECTIONS FROM SAND DUNES IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS
  27 Pleistocene-Age Continental Deposits Beyond the Glacial Border
  Tuesday, 23 April 2024

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Coco Ballroom, Oasis CC

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2023

• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DRAINAGE BASIN ASYMMETRY INDICES AND BEDROCK DIP IN AREAS WITH RESISTANT ROCK AND GENTLY DIPPING STRATA
  21 D1. Advances in Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• ANALYSIS OF MESOSCALE STRUCTURES IN PALEOZOIC STRATA ON THE WESTERN HIGHLAND RIM, TENNESSEE, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR APPALACHIAN AND OUACHITA TECTONICS
  16 Using the Sedimentary Record to Investigate Appalachian and Ouachita Tectonics
  Friday, 17 March 2023

  3:25 PM - 5:30 PM

  Regency Ballroom B

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2022

• NEW RESULTS ON LATE PLEISTOCENE FAULTING IN THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE
  43 Intraplate Earthquakes in Central and Eastern USA
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 201/202

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2021

• QUATERNARY FAULTING AND DEFORMATION ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE REELFOOT RIFT AT FORT PILLOW RIDGE, LAUDERDALE AND TIPTON COUNTIES, WESTERN TENNESSEE
  6 D1. Geophysical Insights and Applications: From the Mantle to the Near-Surface
  Thursday, 1 April 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  FMR, Inc. Room
• IDENTIFYING THE ORIGIN OF A PROMINENT TOPOGRAPHIC LINEAMENT NEAR THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE IN THE NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT
  6 D1. Geophysical Insights and Applications: From the Mantle to the Near-Surface
  Thursday, 1 April 2021

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  FMR, Inc. Room

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2020

• 3D GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN AND ADJACENT TO THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE, CENTRAL UNITED STATES
  T186 Three-Dimensional Geological Mapping to Support Societal Development III
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• IS INCREASED SEISMICITY IN OKLAHOMA/KANSAS WHY M>4 EARTHQUAKES IN THE NEW MADRID/WABASH SEISMIC ZONE HAVE CEASED?
  T165 Techniques and Results of Paleoseismological and Seismic Hazard Studies of the Stable Craton of Eastern North America
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• POSSIBLE SURFACE WARPING ALONG THE BOOTHEEL FAULT REVEALED FROM LIDAR, NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE, CENTRAL US
  T165 Techniques and Results of Paleoseismological and Seismic Hazard Studies of the Stable Craton of Eastern North America
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• THE PRE-GLACIAL PLIOCENE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DRAINAGE DIVIDE IN CANADA
  T145 Sea Level and Ice-Sheet Changes, Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, and Landscape Evolution II
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• IMPLICATIONS OF NEW DATA ON SURFICIAL QUATERNARY THRUST FAULTING NEAR VONORE, TENNESSEE, IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  T165 Techniques and Results of Paleoseismological and Seismic Hazard Studies of the Stable Craton of Eastern North America
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• QUATERNARY FAULTING AND DEFORMATION ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE REELFOOT RIFT AT FORT PILLOW RIDGE, LAUDERDALE AND TIPTON COUNTIES, WESTERN TENNESSEE
  73 Deciphering Active Tectonics and Seismic Hazard in Eastern North America (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom E–G
• SEISMIC AND LIQUEFACTION HAZARD MAPS FOR LAUDERDALE COUNTY, WESTERN TENNESSEE
  73 Deciphering Active Tectonics and Seismic Hazard in Eastern North America (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom E–G
• GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF DYER COUNTY, TENNESSEE WITHIN THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE
  55 Deciphering Active Tectonics and Seismic Hazard in Eastern North America
  Sunday, 22 March 2020

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Regency Ballroom A
• REINTERPRETATION OF THE MEEMAN-SHELBY FAULT’S STRUCTURE
  21 D7. Geophysics (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE RELIEF FROM QUATERNARY FAULTING IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  T63 The New Appalachians: Cenozoic Deformation, Drainage Reorganization, and Landscape Disequilibrium in a Paleozoic Orogen
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229A, North Building
• MODELING HYPOCENTERS TO PREDICT SURFACE FAULT LOCATIONS WITHIN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  49 Natural Hazards Prediction
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

  St. Matthews Room
• TECTONIC GEOMORPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE EASTERN LOWLANDS OF UPPER MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT USING RECENTLY COLLECTED LIDAR DATASET
  12 Technology and Mapping in the 21st Century (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom

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2018

• STRAIN ACCUMULATION IN THE EASTERN REELFOOT RIFT MARGIN: SURFICIAL EVIDENCE NEAR FORT PILLOW, TENNESSEE
  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
• SOUTHERLY PREVAILING PALEOWINDS RECORDED BY LATE PLEISTOCENE EOLIAN SAND DUNES IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
  11 D3. Climate and Landscape Evolution
  Monday, 12 March 2018

  1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

  Chicot Room
• POSSIBLE ISOSTATIC RESPONSE TO QUATERNARY EROSION IN THE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY
  9 Structure and Stratigraphy of the Mid-Continent Region: Mountain Building and Related Sedimentation
  Monday, 12 March 2018

  1:30 PM - 4:05 PM

  Harris Brake

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2017

• A SEISMICITY/QUATERNARY FAULTING CORRIDOR IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE: AN UPDATE
  16 Seismic Zones, Paleoseismology, and Neotectonics in the Southeastern United States
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Potomac G
• COSMOGENIC 26AL-10BE BURIAL DATING OF TENNESSEE AND LITTLE TENNESSEE RIVER TERRACE DEPOSITS IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  16 Seismic Zones, Paleoseismology, and Neotectonics in the Southeastern United States
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Potomac G

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2016

• QUATERNARY FAULTING ASSOCIATED WITH THE EASTERN REELFOOT RIFT MARGIN IN TIPTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
  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
• FIELD EVIDENCE OF LATE QUATERNARY FAULTING IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE NEAR KNOXVILLE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SEISMIC HAZARD
  T202 Evidence for Neotectonic Earthquakes and Their Driving Mechanisms in the Intraplate Region of Central and Eastern North America
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 507
• PALEOSEISMIC INVESTIGATIONS IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  T202 Evidence for Neotectonic Earthquakes and Their Driving Mechanisms in the Intraplate Region of Central and Eastern North America
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 507
• EOCENE FAULTING AND STRUCTURE, TIPTON COUNTY, TN, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR CENOZOIC STRESS FIELD ROTATION
  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
• NEWLY IDENTIFIED EOCENE THRUST FAULT, TIPTON COUNTY, TN, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY-EOCENE STRESS FIELD
  18 Structural Geology, Tectonics, and Volcanology
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

  Capitol Room
• USING A TOPOGRAPHIC RESIDUAL ENVELOPE MAP AS A RAPID IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUE FOR TECTONIC DEFORMATION WITHIN QUATERNARY TERRACES OF THE SALINE RIVER FAULT ZONE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARKANSAS
  18 Structural Geology, Tectonics, and Volcanology
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

  Capitol Room

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2015

• QUATERNARY FAULTING IN BLOUNT COUNTY TENNESSEE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ACTIVE TECTONISM IN THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  T6 Bridging Two Continents: Active Intracontinental Tectonics in Asia and North America and the Associated Geohazards
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 349/350
• PROVENANCE OF THE PLIOCENE UPLAND COMPLEX IN THE NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT
  30 Sediments and Stratigraphy
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  3:20 PM - 5:00 PM

  Roberts
• SPECULATION ON QUATERNARY STRESS FIELD CHANGES IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  6 Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone and Paleoseismology in the Southeastern United States
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Amphitheater
• NEW DATA TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE PALEOSEISMIC HISTORY OF THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  6 Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone and Paleoseismology in the Southeastern United States
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Amphitheater
• DISTRIBUTION OF QUATERNARY FRACTURES AND FOLDS IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  6 Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone and Paleoseismology in the Southeastern United States
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Amphitheater

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2014

• SURFACE FAULTING AND POSSIBLE KINEMATICS OF THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  T300 Geology of Earthquakes, Faults, and Fault Systems (Posters)
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• POSSIBLE EVIDENCE FOR QUATERNARY DEFORMATION IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  T244 Geology of Earthquakes, Faults, and Fault Systems
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  208/209
• THE PLIOCENE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
  87 Fluvial Geomorphology
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208/209

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2012

• PLIOCENE GEOLOGY IN MID-CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA: THE ARC RIVER STORY CONTINUED
  233 Sediments, Clastic (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• PALEOSEISMIC EVIDENCE FOR LARGE, PREHISTORIC EARTHQUAKES IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE
  113 Paleoseismology of the North American Plate and Boundaries
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  218AB
• EVIDENCE FOR PRE-WISCONSINAN AND LATE PLEISTOCENE-EARLY HOLOCENE TECTONIC UPLIFT IN SOUTH-CENTRAL CONNECTICUT FROM AN INTEGRATION OF GEOMORPHIC DATA AND STREAM VECTOR ANALYSES
  8 Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography, Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 March 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballrooms A & C and Ballroom Pre-function Area

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2011

• TRIASSIC/JURASSIC RIFT STRUCTURES AND THE EARLY OPENING OF THE GULF OF MEXICO
  32 Tectonics (Posters) I: New Discoveries in Global Tectonics
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• PROVENANCE OF THE UPLAND COMPLEX: WHERE DID ALL THAT PLIOCENE GRAVEL AND SAND COME FROM?
  20 Transport and Sediment Dynamics in Lowland Rivers
  Tuesday, 29 March 2011

  3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

  D.H. Holmes A & B

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2010

• HOLOCENE FAULTING ALONG THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CRATON (ALABAMA-OKLAHOMA TRANSFORM)
  T89 Recent Advances in Paleoseismology and Neotectonics of Eastern and Central North America and Northern Caribbean I
  Monday, 1 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2AB/3AB
• ANCESTRAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER: DISCHARGE EVIDENCE FROM THE UPLAND COMPLEX
  19 Advances in the Chronology, Correlation, and Stratigraphy of Pre-Wisconsinan Glacigenic Sediments
  Monday, 12 April 2010

  1:50 PM - 5:00 PM

  Cooper Creek 3

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2009

• HOLOCENE SAND BLOWS IN NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
  173 Structural Geology: Advances in Understanding Deformational Processes Ancient and Modern (Posters)
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2008

• Pimple Mound OSL Ages: Late Holocene Great Plains Drought Chronology Extended to the South Central United States
  T172 The Origin of Mima Mounds and Similar Micro-Relief Features: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
  Sunday, 5 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 4:45 PM
• 3-RING CIRCUS IN MISSISSIPPI?
  14 GIS, Remote Sensing, Geomorphology, and Tectonics
  Tuesday, 1 April 2008

  1:00 PM - 4:20 PM

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2007

• REELFOOT RIFT AND NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE EARTHSCOPE USARRAY TARGET
  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
• MID-CONTINENT PRAIRIE MOUNDS ARE NEBKHAS (COPPICE DUNES)
  31 Geomorphology
  Friday, 30 March 2007

  1:40 PM - 4:00 PM
• PALEOZOIC STRESS ORIENTATION IN THE SOUTHEAST OZARKS
  6 Recent Developments in Piedmont Geology and Beyond
  Thursday, 29 March 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:20 PM

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2006

• THE INFLUENCE OF THE MESOZOIC AND PALEOGENE HISTORY OF THE SALINE RIVER FAULT SYSTEM ON ITS NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY
  124 Structural Geology II
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION OF BRECCIAS AT THE CENTRAL UPLIFT, CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURE
  T21 Terrestrial Impact Breccias
  Sunday, 22 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2005

• ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE AND GEOMORPHIC EVIDENCE OF HOLOCENE UPLIFT ALONG THE NORTH AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN PLATE BOUNDARY
  16 Structural Geology and Tectonics
  Friday, 18 March 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• INVESTIGATION OF YOUNG FAULTING IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
  16 Structural Geology and Tectonics
  Friday, 18 March 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2004

• NEW GEOLOGIC MAPS IN THE MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE AREA HELP ASSESS THE POTENTIAL FOR EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED GROUND FAILURE
  T249 Geological Mapping: Providing for Successful Water and Land Resource Planning (Posters)
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2003

• LATE PALEOZOIC OZARK PLATEAU COMPRESSION FOLLOWING DOCKING OF THE OUACHITA BLOCK: ANCESTRAL ROCKIES DEFORMATION IN THE MIDWEST?
  27 Late Paleozoic Intraplate Deformation of Central North America
  Friday, 14 March 2003

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• ASSESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF NEWLY DISCOVERED CENTRAL US FAULTS ON SEISMIC HAZARD
  11 Seismicity and Neotectonics in the Southern United States
  Thursday, 13 March 2003

  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• ANALYSIS OF TWO BURIED SOIL PROFILES ON THE MARGIN OF A SAND BLOW NEAR PORTLAND, ARKANSAS
  13 Undergraduate Research Session (Posters)
  Thursday, 13 March 2003

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2002

• MORE FIELD DATA FROM THE KILMICHAEL STRUCTURE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
  33 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Thursday, 4 April 2002

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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• MORE PALEOLIQUEFACTION DATA FROM SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SEISMIC HAZARDS
  56 Geologic Hazard Issues (Posters)
• SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP OF STRONG SEISMIC SOURCES TO HOTSPOT TRACKS IN THE EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN PLATE
  161 Structural Geology II/Tectonics/Neotectonics (Posters)
• LATE QUATERNARY SURFACE FAULTING IN WESTERN TENNESSEE ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE REELFOOT RIFT
  8 Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• Sand Blows on Late Quaternary Surfaces in Northeast Louisiana
  147 Structural Geology / Tectonics / Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• A POSSIBLE SAND BLOW FIELD IN THE CENTRAL ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT
  255 Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• EVIDENCE FOR NEOTECTONISM IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI FROM DRAINAGE BASIN ASYMMETRY
  255 Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• Recurrent Mesozoic and Cenozoic Faulting along the Southern Margin of the North American Craton
  147 Structural Geology / Tectonics / Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• LONG-AXIS ORIENTATION OF BRECCIA CLASTS AT THE KILMICHAEL STRUCTURE, MISSISSIPPI
  165 Structural Geology (Posters)
• FOSSILIZED CORAL REEF UPLIFT ON ROATAN ISLAND, HONDURAS
  8 Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• TRANSVERSE TOPOGRAPHIC DRAINAGE BASIN ASYMMETRY ANALYSIS TO EVALUATE FAULTING IN SOUTH CAROLINA
  8 Neotectonics/Paleoseismology (Posters)
• PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF LATE QUATERNARY SAND DUNES IN THE NORTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT
  86 Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology (Posters) I: Lakes, Dunes, Soils, and Tectonics