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Activity

2025

• SHEAR SENSES, TECTONIC TRANSPORT DIRECTIONS AND DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLAND TERRANE, SCOTLAND: MICROSTRUCTURAL AND QUARTZ C-AXIS FABRIC DATA FROM THE FLAT BELT AND TRANSECTS ACROSS THE SGURR BEAG THRUST IN THE STEEP BELT
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120
• INTEGRATING MULTISYSTEM GEO- AND THERMOCHRONOLOGY AND THERMOBAROMETRIC DATA TO DEVELOP EVOLUTIONARY TECTONIC MODELS FOR THE PALEOZOIC LAURENTIAN MARGIN: HONORING THE OUTSTANDING CAREER OF ROB STRACHAN
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120
• CONSTRAINING THE POLYMETAMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS AND GRAMPIAN TERRANES, SCOTLAND: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM MONAZITE AND XENOTIME U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120
• TITANITE AND MONAZITE CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF METAMORPHISM AND PENETRATIVE DEFORMATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS TERRANE, SCOTLAND
  16 Tectonic Processes in the Circum-Atlantic Orogens I: A Celebration of the Career of Rob Strachan
  Friday, 28 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  120

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2024

• DETERMINING TECTONIC TRANSPORT DIRECTIONS AND SHEAR SENSES IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN HIGHLANDS TERRAIN, SCOTLAND
  47 D11. Structural Geology (Posters)
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2023

• THE MAKING OF MOUNT EVEREST: CHANNEL FLOW, AND LOW-ANGLE NORMAL FAULTS IN THE COMPRESSIONAL HIMALAYAN OROGEN
  T160 Exploring Strain Partitioning and Kinematic Evolution of the Lithosphere I: In Honor of Micah Jessup
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  326
• THE BYGDIN CONGLOMERATE, NORWEGIAN CALEDONIDES: QUARTZ CRYSTAL FABRICS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR 3D STRAIN AND TECTONIC SETTING
  11 Strike-Slip Faulting, Flower Structures, Plutons, and Tiltmeters II: A Tribute to the Career of Arthur Sylvester
  Wednesday, 17 May 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 1

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2022

• HORIZONTAL LENS-LIKE EMPLACEMENT OF THE SAGE HEN FLAT PLUTON, CALIFORNIA
  33 Advances in Understanding Arc Magmatism in the Southwestern Cordillera I
  Thursday, 17 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  CBC-A 108

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2020

• THERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE SCANDIAN OROGENIC RETROWEDGE, NORTHERN SCOTLAND: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF RAPID COLLAPSE
  T71 Some like It HOT: The Role of Late Extensional Tectonics in Collisional Orogens, with Special Emphasis on the Grenville Orogen
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF RAPID HEATING IN THRUST BELTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR METAMORPHISM IN THE SCANDIAN OROGENIC WEDGE, NW SCOTLAND
  T9 Linking Fault Zone Deformation Processes, Kinematic Indicators, and Geochronology through the Brittle and Brittle-Ductile Regimes of the Earth’s Crust
  Monday, 26 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms

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2019

• RAPID RATES OF OROGENIC COLLAPSE IN THE SCOTTISH CALEDONIDES
  T243 New Developments in the Appalachian-Caledonian-Variscan Orogen I
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 229B, North Building
• CONTRASTING RECORDS OF MONAZITE FLUID ALTERATION IN NORTHERN SCOTLAND
  T77 A Life in Mineralogy and Petrology: A Session in Honor of Robert J. Tracy
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHICALLY CONTROLLED VOID SPACE AT GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN EXHUMED METAMORPHIC ROCKS
  T56 Metamorphic Petrology Past, Present and Future: Preparing for the Next 100 Years with the Mineralogical Society of America
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 126ABC, North Building
• APPLYING GARNET-MONAZITE THERMOMETRY TO SCANDIAN THRUST SHEETS IN NORTHWEST SCOTLAND
  10 Recent Advances and New Approaches in the Study of Faults and Shear Zones in Orogenic Systems (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom

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2017

• FTIR MEASUREMENTS OF WATER IN FAULT ROCKS OF THE SOUTH TIBETAN DETACHMENT, GREATER HIMALAYA
  T320 Challenges in Tectonics: Beyond Steady State: New Developments in Understanding Strain Localization Processes and the Rheology of the Lithosphere
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 2
• APPARENT MECHANICAL HARDENING OF HIGHLY STRAINED QUARTZITE IN THE INNER AUREOLE OF THE PAPOOSE FLAT PLUTON, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  T320 Challenges in Tectonics: Beyond Steady State: New Developments in Understanding Strain Localization Processes and the Rheology of the Lithosphere
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 2
• MODELING FEEDBACKS BETWEEN TRANSIENT THERMAL EVOLUTION, RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR, AND STRAIN LOCALIZATION IN COLLISIONAL THRUST BELTS
  T320 Challenges in Tectonics: Beyond Steady State: New Developments in Understanding Strain Localization Processes and the Rheology of the Lithosphere
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Tahoma 2
• MONAZITE AND TITANITE CONSTRAINTS ON THE PRECAMBRIAN METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE NW HIGHLANDS TERRANE, SCOTLAND
  T176 Petrochronology: Advances and Applications to Petrogenesis and Tectonics (Posters)
  Monday, 23 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• PETROLOGY AND MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE SCARBORO FORMATION, JEFFERSON, MAINE
  14 NETectonics: New Advances in Petrology, Geochemistry and Geochronology in the Appalachians (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 March 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Urban, 17th Floor

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2016

• MONAZITE-XENOTIME THERMOMETRY CONSTRAINTS ON THE METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SCANDIAN NAPPE STACK, NW HIGHLANDS TERRANE, SCOTLAND
  270 Heat and Mass Transfer through Earth’s Crust during Metamorphism
  Wednesday, 28 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 502
• INFLUENCE OF THRUST-RELATED ADVECTION AND MASS TRANSFER ON METAMORPHIC HEATING RATES IN OROGENS
  T27 Rates in Metamorphism and Tectonism: From Mineral Growth to Orogenesis
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3B
• TIMING OF GARNET GROWTH AND BREAKDOWN USING MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY IN THE SCANDIAN (TACONIC) OROGENIC WEDGE, NW SCOTLAND
  34 Applications of Geochemistry and Geochronology to Understanding Tectonic Processes: In Honor of Raymond A. Coish (Posters)
  Tuesday, 22 March 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Convention Hall

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2015

• OROGEN-SCALE ALONG-STRIKE CONTINUITY IN QUARTZ RECRYSTALLIZATION MICROSTRUCTURES ADJACENT TO THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES, STRAIN RATES AND FLOW STRESSES
  T103 Rheological Behavior of Ductile Lithosphere during Strain Localization
  Monday, 2 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 308
• UNDERSTANDING KINEMATIC DISPLACEMENT RATE EFFECTS ON TRANSIENT THERMAL PROCESSES: A COMPARISON OF ANALYTICAL (TI-DIFFUSION) AND NUMERICAL (FINITE-ELEMENT) SOLUTIONS TO FOOTWALL HEATING IN THRUST BELTS
  5 Structural Geology: Geometry and Kinematics from Mapping and Modeling
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 336

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2014

• TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE GREATER HIMALAYAN SEQUENCE, ANNAPURNA-DHAULAGIRI HIMALAYA, CENTRAL NEPAL
  T181 Exploring the Development of the Himalayan-Karakorum- Tibet Orogenic System from the Mantle to Mountain Peaks
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  119/120
• QUANTIFIED VERTICAL STRAIN PROFILE OF MID-CRUSTAL DEFORMATION IN THE GREATER HIMALAYAN SEQUENCE, ANNAPURNA-DHAULAGIRI HIMALAYA, NEPAL
  T37 Deformation Localization throughout the Crust (Posters)
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  Exhibition Hall C

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2013

• DECOMPRESSIONAL GARNET GROWTH DURING PROGRADE METAMORPHISM IN CALEDONIAN THRUST SHEETS, NW SCOTLAND
  T323 STAMP: Structure, Tectonics, and Metamorphic Petrology I
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 506
• GARNET ZONING IMPLIES SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL MIGRATION OF THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST ZONE, SUTLEJ VALLEY, NW INDIA
  T404 Through the Looking Glass: Microstructural Insights into Tectonic Processes
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 507

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2012

• EXPLORING SHAPE FABRIC DEVELOPMENT IN 3D STEADY AND NON-STEADY FLOW: IMPLICATIONS FOR CLAST-BASED VORTICITY GAUGES
  T85 Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones I
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• THERMAL STRUCTURE OF THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST, EVEREST TRANSECT, HIMALAYAS
  T85 Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones I
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A

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2011

• HOW SENSITIVE ARE RIGID GRAINS TO CHANGING FLOW VORTICITY?
  T271 Constraints on Strain Rates, Stresses, and Deformation Processes During Shear Zone Localization at Different Lithospheric Levels
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 200DE
• MULTIPLE PALEOSTRESS AND STRAIN-RATE GRADIENTS ABUTTING THE GREATER HIMALAYAN SERIES: INSIGHTS FROM THE SOUTH TIBETAN DETACHMENT SYSTEM, SOUTHERN TIBET, AND THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST, NW INDIA
  T271 Constraints on Strain Rates, Stresses, and Deformation Processes During Shear Zone Localization at Different Lithospheric Levels
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 200DE

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2010

• EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINITE STRAIN AND CLAST ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RIGID GRAIN VORTICITY ANALYSIS
  5 Recent Advances in Structural Geology
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 503
• TECHNIQUES FOR VORTICITY ANALYSIS: A SELECTIVE REVIEW OF PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR APPLICATION
  60 Vorticity and Strain in Shear Zones
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  International E
• INTEGRATED STRAIN, PETROFABRIC AND VORTICITY ANALYSIS OF MOINE THRUST FOOTWALL MYLONITES IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE ASSYNT WINDOW, NW SCOTLAND
  60 Vorticity and Strain in Shear Zones
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  International E
• EXAMINATION OF VORTICITY AT DIFFERENT CRUSTAL LEVELS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE MOINE THRUST ZONE, NW SCOTTISH CALEDONIDES
  60 Vorticity and Strain in Shear Zones
  Tuesday, 16 March 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:05 PM

  International E

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2009

• UNDERSTANDING THE PRESERVATION OF AN INVERTED METAMORPHIC PROGRESSION, SCOTTISH CALEDONIDES: INTEGRATING QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURAL, KINEMATIC, AND METAMORPHIC DATA
  268 Tectonics: Advances in Understanding Tectonics and Orogenesis Ancient and Modern
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  A107/108/109
• AMS REVEALS INCREMENTAL EMPLACEMENT AND FINAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE EJB PLUTON, EASTERN CALIFORNIA
  T16 Pluton Assembly: Duration, Mechanisms, and Structural Controls
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A105

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2008

• Kinematic Coupling Between Hinterland and Foreland Deformation In Convergent Orogens
  T322 Mid- to Lower Crustal Deformation Processes: Strain, Kinematics and Relationships to Upper Crustal Structures
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Kinematic Coupling Between Hinterland and Foreland Deformation In the Northern Moine Thrust Zone, NW Scotland
  T322 Mid- to Lower Crustal Deformation Processes: Strain, Kinematics and Relationships to Upper Crustal Structures
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• CHARACTERIZATION OF 3-D VORTICITY AND STRAIN SYMMETRY IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN INNER PIEDMONT: AN EXHUMED OROGENIC HINTERLAND
  25 Economic Geology/Stratigraphy/Structure/History of Geology
  Friday, 11 April 2008

  1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
• VORTICITY, STRAIN SYMMETRY, AND MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BOWENS CREEK FAULT ZONE, NORTHEASTERN INNER PIEDMONT, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS, VIRGINIA
  13 Isotopic and Chemical Geochronology of Metamorphic Terranes in the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont Environs: Implications for Tectonic Mapping and Modeling
  Thursday, 10 April 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

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2007

• 3-D STRAIN SYMMETRY AND VORTICITY OF FLOW ALONG THE MOINE THRUST, NORTHWEST SCOTLAND: IMPLICATIONS FOR THRUST SHEET EVOLUTION AT MID-CRUSTAL LEVELS
  32 Structural Geology
  Sunday, 28 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2006

• SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN DEFORMATION, METAMORPHISM, AND DISPLACEMENT ALONG THE SOUTH TIBETAN DETACHMENT SYSTEM; INSIGHTS INTO THE EXHUMATION OF THE GREATER HIMALAYAN SLAB, TIBET
  92 Tectonics I
  Monday, 23 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2005

• THERMAL-MECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER-SECTION OF THE GREATER HIMALAYAN SLAB, EVEREST-LHOTSE MASSIF, NEPAL
  171 Tectonics II
  Tuesday, 18 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2003

• GEOMETRY KINEMATICS AND AGE OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE WHITE MOUNTAIN SHEAR ZONE: EXTENDING THE RANGE AND DURATION OF LATE CRETACEOUS DEXTRAL TRANSPRESSION ALONG THE WESTERN MARGIN OF NORTH AMERICA
  45 Tectonics I: Cordilleran Terranes, Arc Tectonics
  Sunday, 2 November 2003

  1:00 PM - 3:45 PM

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2002

• STRAIN, DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES AND VORTICITY OF FLOW AT THE TOP OF THE HIGH HIMALAYAN SLAB, EVEREST MASSIF, TIBET
  T147 Geometry, Kinematics, and Vorticity of High-Strain Zones
  Tuesday, 29 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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• VORTICITY OF FLOW ALONG THE MOINE THRUST ZONE FROM WHITEN HEAD TO NORTHERN ASSYNT, NORTHWEST SCOTLAND
  83 Structural Geology and Tectonics (Posters)
• STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE SAURATOWN MOUNTAIN QUARTZITES; EVIDENCE FOR POLYPHASE DEFORMATION AND SHEARING
  24 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
• TESTING THE ROLES OF CLIMATE, TECTONICS, AND BEDROCK LITHOLOGY IN THE LATE CENOZOIC INCISION HISTORY OF THE NEW RIVER
  154 Quaternary Geology/Geomorphology (Posters) II: Landscape Processes and Histories
• MICROSTRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BREVARD FAULT ZONE NEAR ROSMAN, NC: IMPLICATIONS FOR MATERIAL MOVEMENT OBLIQUE TO OROGENIC STRIKE
  8 Structure/Tectonics/Geophysics/Seismology (Posters)