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Activity

2025

• FAULT-TIP DAMAGE ZONE DEVELOPMENT DURING NORMAL FAULT PROPAGATION WITHIN THE SEVIER NORMAL FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN UTAH
  22 Undergraduate Research Poster Session II
  Saturday, 29 March 2025

  8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

  North Great Hall

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2024

• ANALYSIS OF SEGMENTED NORMAL FAULTING IN THE NORTHERN THARSIS REGION OF MARS
  T101 36th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition Sponsored by Sigma Gamma Epsilon (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• MODELING THERMAL FLUX THROUGH A NORMAL FAULT DAMAGE ZONE WITH ENHANCED PERMEABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY PRODUCTION
  T102 Environmental and Engineering Geology Division: Poster Session for Graduate and Undergraduate Students (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• CONSTRAINING FAULT DAMAGE ZONE EVOLUTION WITHIN THE SEVIER NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM, SOUTHERN UTAH
  T101 36th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition Sponsored by Sigma Gamma Epsilon (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• FAULT DAMAGE ZONE DEVELOPMENT ON THE SEVIER NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM, UTAH
  26 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Thursday, 16 May 2024

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2023

• THE EVOLUTION OF FAULT DAMAGE ZONES WITHIN THE SEVIER NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM, UTAH
  T96 35th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition (Posters)
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• THE ORIGIN OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL FAULTING ON THE FLANK OF ALBA MONS, NORTHERN THARSIS REGION, MARS
  T96 35th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition (Posters)
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• THE ROLE OF FAULT DAMAGE ZONE DEVELOPMENT IN STRUCTURALLY CONTROLLED LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION, SEVIER FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN UTAH
  T96 35th Annual Undergraduate Research Exhibition (Posters)
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• MODELING FAULT-RELATED DEFORMATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY POTENTIAL
  T24 Emerging Voices in Energy Geology Research: Contributions from Students and Early Career Professionals (Posters)
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B
• INVESTIGATING NORMAL FAULT DAMAGE ZONE DEVELOPMENT USING VIRTUAL OUTCROP MODELS: A CASE STUDY OF THE SEVIER NORMAL FAULT, SOUTHERN UTAH
  53 D3. Structural Geology, Tectonics, Petrology, and Planetary Geology
  Sunday, 19 March 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lake Fairfax

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2022

• DYNAMIC FRACTURING IN FAULT TIP DAMAGE ZONES? AN OUTCROP STUDY OF THE SEVIER FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN UTAH
  T77 Deformation Zones in Time and Space I: A Celebration of the Career of Steven Wojtal
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207
• MODELING THE SEGMENTED SEVIER NORMAL FAULT: 3D ANALYSIS AND VALIDITY TESTING
  T126 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Posters by 2YC and 4YCU Geoscience Students (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• MODELING FAULT-RELATED FRACTURING ASSOCIATED WITH A SEGMENTED NORMAL FAULT: IMPLICATIONS FOR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY POTENTIAL
  T126 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Posters by 2YC and 4YCU Geoscience Students (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• ANALYZING NORMAL FAULT-TIP DAMAGE ZONE GEOMETRIES AND STRUCTURES USING VIRTUAL OUTCROP MODELS
  T126 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Posters by 2YC and 4YCU Geoscience Students (Posters)
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• STRUCTURAL AND LITHOLOGIC CONTROLS ON FRACTURE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A SEGMENTED NORMAL FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN UTAH
  24 Cryptic and Slow-Moving Quaternary-Active Faults in the Western United States (Posters)
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  8:30 AM - 6:00 PM

  Student Union Ballroom A/B

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2021

• POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION ON RATES OF EROSION AND ISOSTATIC UPLIFT OF THE WASATCH FAULT ZONE FOOTWALL
  13 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Thursday, 13 May 2021

  10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

  Mackay School of Earth Sciences & Engineering Room

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2019

• FAULT ZONE GEOMETRY AND STRATIGRAPHY AS CONTROLS ON FLUID NETWORK DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SEVIER NORMAL FAULT ZONE, SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH
  T126 Structural Geology in the 21st Century: Rheology of Naturally Deformed Rocks (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• ANALYZING DEFORMATION WITHIN A NORMAL FAULT TRANSFER ZONE USING SFM 3D MODELING
  11 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B
• GEOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTARY LAYERING AS A STRUCTURAL CONTROL ON FAULT PROPAGATION
  11 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B
• AN ANALYSIS OF FRACTURES AROUND THE SEVIER FAULT TRANSFER ZONE NEAR ORDERVILLE, UTAH
  11 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Wednesday, 15 May 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall B

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2018

• EVOLUTION OF FRACTURE NETWORKS WITHIN A NORMAL FAULT TRANSFER ZONE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SEVIER FAULT SYSTEM, SOUTHERN UTAH
  31 Geologic and Structural Evolution of the Transition Zone
  Wednesday, 16 May 2018

  10:20 AM - 12:20 PM

  Humphreys/Mt. Elden Room

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2017

• TESTING A PREDICTIVE MODEL OF FAULT SEGMENTATION USING STREAM PROFILE ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE WASSUK NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM, NEVADA
  16 Upper Crustal Deformation across Continental Interiors from the Mesozoic to the Present
  Tuesday, 14 March 2017

  10:35 AM - 12:15 PM

  Grand Ballroom A
• USING 3D COMPUTER MODELS TO TEST EN ECHELON NORMAL FAULT EVOLUTION
  23 Upper Crustal Deformation across Continental Interiors from the Mesozoic to the Present (Posters)
  Tuesday, 14 March 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom CDE
• THE IMPACT OF NORMAL FAULT TRANSFER ZONES ON THE EVOLUTION OF SUBSIDIARY FRACTURE NETWORKS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SEVIER FAULT ZONE, SOUTHERN UTAH
  23 Upper Crustal Deformation across Continental Interiors from the Mesozoic to the Present (Posters)
  Tuesday, 14 March 2017

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom CDE

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2016

• TESTING MODELS OF EN ECHELON NORMAL FAULT EVOLUTION USING 3D COMPUTER MODELING
  T84 Deconstructing Damage: Holistic Perspectives on the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Brittle Fault Zones (Posters)
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• THE EVOLUTION OF SUBSIDIARY FRACTURE NETWORKS IN SEGMENTED NORMAL FAULT SYSTEMS
  T84 Deconstructing Damage: Holistic Perspectives on the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Brittle Fault Zones (Posters)
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• CHALLENGES IN PREDICTING FRACTURE NETWORK EVOLUTION AND FLUID FLOW PATHWAYS IN LAYERED LIMESTONE FOLD SYSTEMS
  18 Structural Geology, Tectonics, and Volcanology
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  1:30 PM - 3:10 PM

  Capitol Room

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2015

• THE LOCALIZATION OF SHEAR STRAIN WITHIN A CONTRACTIONAL FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLD SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY FROM THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  T286 Folds and Folding: Earth’s Surface to Depth
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 322/323
• USING 3D DIGITAL MODELS TO PERFORM OUTCROP-BASED STRAIN ANALYSIS:  A CASE STUDY FROM THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  46 Structural Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall
• USING STREAM CHANNEL PROFILES TO ASSESS FAULT SLIP RATE VARIABILITY AND TO EVAULATE FAULT SEGMENTATION: A CASE STUDY FROM THE WASSUK RANGE NORMAL FAULT, WESTERN NEVADA
  46 Structural Geology (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2014

• IMPLICATIONS OF FRACTURE CHARACTERISTICS FOR FLUID FLOW WITHIN FOLD SYSTEMS:  A CASE STUDY FROM THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  T120 The Structure of Faults from Top to Bottom: Implication for Fluid Flow, Ore Deposits, and Seismic Hazard (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• ANALYSIS OF FINITE FOLD GEOMETRY AND VARIATIONS IN STRAIN BASED ON STRUCTURAL POSITION:  A CASE STUDY FROM THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  T120 The Structure of Faults from Top to Bottom: Implication for Fluid Flow, Ore Deposits, and Seismic Hazard (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• 2D AND 3D COMPUTER MODELING OF THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE FOLD SYSTEM, WEST TEXAS: TESTING MODELS OF FOLD FORMATION
  T120 The Structure of Faults from Top to Bottom: Implication for Fluid Flow, Ore Deposits, and Seismic Hazard (Posters)
  Monday, 20 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibition Hall C
• THE EFFECTS OF WEATHERING ON OUTCROP-BASED FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION:  A CASE STUDY FROM THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  11 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 17 March 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  White River Room

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2013

• 2D COMPUTER KINEMATIC FORWARD MODELING OF THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE FOLD SYSTEM, WEST TEXAS: TESTING MODELS OF FOLD EVOLUTION
  T369 Structural Geology and Geomechanics in the Petroleum Industry (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• ANALYSIS OF MACRO-FRACTURES IN THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS:  IMPLICATIONS FOR COUPLED FOLD-FRACTURE EVOLUTION
  T369 Structural Geology and Geomechanics in the Petroleum Industry (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC LITERACY IN INTRODUCTORY GEOSCIENCE LAB COURSES: A MODEL FOR INTEGRATED LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT
  T241 Geoscience Education and Outreach: 50 Years of Progress (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• A NEW LATE PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE SLIP RATE ESTIMATE FOR THE WASSUK RANGE NORMAL FAULT, WESTERN NEVADA: THE IMPACT OF TIME-DEPENDENT SLIP VARIABILITY ON SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT
  T85 Evolving Understanding of Extensional Provinces: Advancements and Challenges
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507
• THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-EXISTING BASEMENT STRUCTURE ON LARAMIDE-AGE CONTRACTIONAL DEFORMATION:  EVOLUTION OF THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  21 Tectonic Evolution of South-Central Laurentia II: Megacontinents and Exotic Terranes, Orogenic Belts and Rifts: Celebrating the Career of Wm. R. Muehlberger
  Friday, 5 April 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Classroom 101
• A NEW APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZING FRACTURE NETWORKS:  AN ANALYSIS OF NATURAL FRACTURES WITHIN THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  26 Fractures, Faults, and Fluids: From Observations to Numerical Models
  Friday, 5 April 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Classroom 106
• TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE, MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY, AND INTERLAYER SLIP:  EXPLORING COUPLED FOLD-FRACTURE EVOLUTION OF THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  28 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
  Friday, 5 April 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Classroom 107
• ASSESSING THE LIKELIHOOD OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN THE EAGLE FORD SHALE:  A MAP-BASED ANALYSIS OF THE EAGLE FORD AND OVERLYING AQUIFERS
  19 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Thursday, 4 April 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Classroom 108

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2012

• ANALYSIS OF FRACTURE SYSTEMS WITHIN THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FLUID FLOW
  T253 The Role of Structure and Diagenesis in Governing Fluid Storage and Flow in Deep Sedimentary Basins with Applications to Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• KINEMATIC EVOLUTION THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE SYSTEM, WEST TEXAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR FLUID FLOW WITHIN SUBSURFACE SYSTEMS
  T205 The Role of Structure and Diagenesis in Governing Fluid Storage and Flow in Deep Sedimentary Basins with Applications to Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  207D
• EVOLUTION OF A SHALLOW HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM IN THE SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH: RECORDS FROM A ZONED, LOW δ18O SKARN IN THE MINERAL KING PENDANT
  157 Geochemistry (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING DURING A COMPLEX, MULTI-YEAR, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT: A MODEL FROM TRINITY UNIVERSITY
  T34 Formative Assessment in Geoscience Education (Posters)
  Sunday, 4 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall B
• THE ROLE OF MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY IN FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLD EVOLUTION: A CASE STUDY
  4 Tectonic History of the Trans-Pecos Region (Posters)
  Thursday, 8 March 2012

  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Espino Foyer
• KINEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE STILLWELL ANTICLINE, WEST TEXAS
  4 Tectonic History of the Trans-Pecos Region (Posters)
  Thursday, 8 March 2012

  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Espino Foyer

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2011

• INTEGRATING THE PORTABLE XRF INTO THE UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM: EARLY SUCCESSES AND LESSONS LEARNED
  25 Geoscience Education (Posters) I
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C

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2010

• INTRUSIVE HISTORY OF THE ASH MOUNTAIN COMPLEX, SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK
  T266 Accessory Minerals as Monitors of Magmatic Processes: New Ideas, Applications, and Pitfalls (Posters)
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D
• NEW CONSTRAINTS ON QUATERNARY SLIP RATES OF THE WASSUK RANGE FAULT SYSTEM, WESTERN NEVADA
  12 Active Tectonics of the Eastern California Shear Zone–Walker Lane Belt
  Thursday, 27 May 2010

  1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

  Platinum 1

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2009

• EMPLACEMENT MECHANISMS AND PETROLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BASALT FLOWS OF THE BLACK GAP SYNCLINE, WEST TEXAS
  33 Petrology, Igneous (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2006

• THE NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE: A STRUCTURAL STUDY OF THE NORTHERN TERMINATION OF THE WARNER RANGE, CA
  12 GSA: The Restless Crust—Middle and Shallow Levels (Posters)
  Monday, 8 May 2006

  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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2005

• STRAIN PARTITIONING ACROSS THE CENTRAL WALKER LANE: GEODETIC AND GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS
  T85 The Edges of Extension: Boundaries of the Basin and Range Province as Natural Laboratories for Studying Tectonic and Structural Processes
  Monday, 17 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• DRILL CORE DATA FROM THE WARNER RANGE AND SURPRISE VALLEY
  T85 The Edges of Extension: Boundaries of the Basin and Range Province as Natural Laboratories for Studying Tectonic and Structural Processes
  Monday, 17 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2003

• BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT GROUP PETRIFIED FORESTS
  T228 The Columbia River Flood Basalts: New Insights into the Volcanism, Petrology, and Tectonism of a Large Igneous Province: Dedicated to Peter Hooper on His Retirement (Posters)
  Wednesday, 5 November 2003

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Date Unknown

• STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY WITHIN THE BLACK GAP SYNCLINE, WEST TEXAS
  83 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
• CENOZOIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE BASIN AND RANGE: GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS FROM THE WARNER RANGE AND SURPRISE VALLEY REGION
  28 Tectonics (Posters)