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Activity

2024

• THE EFFECT OF DEFORMATIONAL FABRICS AND STRUCTURES ON THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND RHEOLOGY
  40 Micro to Macro: Linking Structural Geology, Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonics Across Scales (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• DOES QUARTZ PRESERVE A RECORD OF THE EARTHQUAKE CYCLE AT THE FRICTIONAL-TO-VISCOUS TRANSITION? A STUDY OF A SEISMOGENIC BIMATERIAL SHEAR ZONE
  40 Micro to Macro: Linking Structural Geology, Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonics Across Scales (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• EFFECT OF POST-FRAGMENTATION VISCOUS SHEAR STRAIN ON PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION FOR DYNAMIC AND QUASI-STATIC FRAGMENTATION
  40 Micro to Macro: Linking Structural Geology, Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonics Across Scales (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2024

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Armory Ballroom
• ANISOTROPIC ELASTIC STRESSES, CRITICALITY, AND ROCK FAILURE
  20 Micro to Macro: Linking Structural Geology, Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonics Across Scales
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Piscataquog Room
• APPLICATION AND EXPLORATION OF THE PERIMETER-AREA FRACTAL DIMENSION OF RECRYSTALLIZED QUARTZ GRAIN BOUNDARIES: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SANDHILL CORNER SHEAR ZONE
  20 Micro to Macro: Linking Structural Geology, Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonics Across Scales
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Piscataquog Room
• RHEOLOGICAL BRIDGE ZONE, STRESS AMPLIFICATION, AND INITIALIZATION OF STRAIN LOCALIZATION
  20 Micro to Macro: Linking Structural Geology, Petrology, Geochronology, and Tectonics Across Scales
  Monday, 18 March 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Piscataquog Room

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2019

• GRAIN-SCALE ELASTIC ENERGY DRIVES ROCK FABRIC DEVELOPMENT AND RHEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
  T142 Structural Geology in the 21st Century: Rheology of Naturally Deformed Rocks
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229A, North Building
• GRAIN-SCALE ELASTIC ENERGY, ROCK FABRIC DEVELOPMENT AND RHEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
  22 D1. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Tectonics - Integrating Field, Laboratory, and Experimental Techniques
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Massachusetts Room
• DAMAGE IN POLYCRYSTALLINE ROCKS BY THERMAL AND MECHANICAL LOADING IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAFIC DIKE INTRUSION INTO GRANITE ROCKS
  39 D1. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Tectonics I - Integrating Field, Laboratory, and Experimental Techniques (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Casco Bay Hall
• THE IMPACT OF STRESS THRESHOLDS ON LOCALIZATION IN THE VISCOUS REGIME
  39 D1. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Tectonics I - Integrating Field, Laboratory, and Experimental Techniques (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Casco Bay Hall
• MICROSTRUCTURAL EVIDENCE LINKING DAMAGE ZONES AND GRANULITE HYDRATION
  39 D1. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Tectonics I - Integrating Field, Laboratory, and Experimental Techniques (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Casco Bay Hall
• WHAT MICROSTRUCTURAL PROCESSES CONTRIBUTED TO THE FORMATION OF RHEOLOGICAL BRIDGE ZONES?
  40 D1. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Tectonics II - Integrating Field, Laboratory, and Experimental Techniques (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Casco Bay Hall
• FAULT-ADJACENT DAMAGE AT THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY
  40 D1. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating Tectonics II - Integrating Field, Laboratory, and Experimental Techniques (Posters)
  Monday, 18 March 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Casco Bay Hall

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2017

• BRITTLE CO-SEISMIC DEFORMATION OF QUARTZ: LOCALIZATION NEAR THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE
  T288 Challenges in Tectonics: Fault Zone Behavior through Time, from Earth’s Surface to the Upper Mantle (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• MINIMUM FINITE SHEAR STRAIN ESTIMATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR STRAIN LOCALIZATION AT THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE: A CASE STUDY FROM THE SANDHILL CORNER SHEAR ZONE, MAINE, USA
  43 NETectonics: New Advances in Structural Geology and Tectonics in the Appalachians
  Monday, 20 March 2017

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Lawrence Welk Room, Mezzanine Level

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2015

• DAMAGE MICROSTRUCTURES IN GARNET AND FELDSPAR PRESERVE COSEISMIC CYCLES AT MID-CRUSTAL DEPTHS IN AN ANCIENT STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEM IN SOUTH-CENTRAL MAINE
  71 The Role of Interacting Processes in Deformation (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Presidential Ballroom
• RHEOLOGICAL PREDICTABILITY IN THE VISCOUS REGIME
  45 The Role of Interacting Processes in Deformation
  Tuesday, 24 March 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Jefferson Room

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2013

• DETERMINING THE RELATIVE STRENGTHS OF ROCKS FROM DEFORMATIONAL GEOMETRY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RHEOLOGY OF THE LOWER CRUST
  63 Rheological Information from Structures and Microstructures (Posters)
  Tuesday, 19 March 2013

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom South
• BULK AND MICROSCALE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPHASE POWER-LAW MATERIALS
  35 Rheological Information from Structures and Microstructures
  Tuesday, 19 March 2013

  8:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  Jefferson Room

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2012

• THE ROLE OF MECHANICAL AND THERMAL FRACTURE IN STRAIN LOCALIZATION IN UPPER- AND MID-CRUSTAL SEISMOGENIC FAULT/SHEAR-ZONE SYSTEMS
  T85 Deformation Processes in Lithospheric High-Strain Zones I
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• RHEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITY, STRAIN PARTITIONING, SHEAR STRESS COUPLING, AND KINEMATICS IN PORPHYROBLASTIC SCHISTS
  46 High-Strain Zone Kinematics, From the Microscopic to the Macroscopic Scale
  Tuesday, 20 March 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom D

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2011

• USING HETEROGENEOUS QUARTZ CPO DATA TO INTERPRET THE DEFORMATION HISTORY OF A SHEAR ZONE AT THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE
  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
• MICROSTRUCTURAL AND ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTION EVIDENCE FOR PORPHYROBLAST ROTATION DURING NON-COAXIAL FLOW
  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
• EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF SHEAR ZONE DEVELOPMENT ON SEISMIC ANISOTROPY IN THE DEEP CRATONIC CRUST: NATURAL EXAMPLES AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS
  T74 The Archean of North America: The Core of a Continent
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200H-J
• INTEGRATED ANALYTICAL-COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CALCULATION OF BULK ELASTIC PROPERTIES AND SEISMIC WAVE SPEEDS IN POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
  T74 The Archean of North America: The Core of a Continent
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 200H-J
• FRACTAL ANALYSIS AND THERMAL-ELASTIC MODELING OF A SUBVOLCANIC MAGMATIC BRECCIA: THE SHATTER ZONE, MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE
  61 Structural Geology (Posters)
  Tuesday, 22 March 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom

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2010

• THE INFLUENCE OF PSEUDOTACHYLYTE FORMATION AND DEFORMATION ON BULK ROCK STRENGTH WITHIN A SHEAR ZONE FROM THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE
  T173 Where Does Earthquake Physics Meet Earthquake Geology?
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Lobby F

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2009

• NUMERICAL MODELING OF MICROSTRUCTURAL PROCESSES AND FABRIC EVOLUTION: AN ESSENTIAL STEP IN EXPLORING CRUSTAL SEISMIC ANISOTROPY
  124 Crustal Tectonic Deformation as Revealed by Seismic Anisotropy
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254
• THERMAL-MECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE ROOF OF A MID-CRUSTAL TABULAR PLUTON: COUPLED DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM, RHEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION, AND CONSTRAINTS ON MAGMA CHAMBER GROWTH
  T16 Pluton Assembly: Duration, Mechanisms, and Structural Controls
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A105
• MICROSTRUCTURAL RECORD OF COSEISMIC/POSTSEISMIC CYCLES NEAR THE BASE OF THE SEISMOGENIC ZONE, SAND HILL CORNER MYLONITE ZONE, NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEM, MAINE
  38 Rheology, Kinematics, and Strain Localization in Faults and Shear Zones II: NEtectonics
  Monday, 23 March 2009

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2008

• RHEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITY AND THE STATE OF STRESS IN THE ROOTS OF A LARGE-DISPLACEMENT, STRIKE-SLIP, SEISMOGENIC FAULT: THE NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEM IN MAINE
  19 NEtectonics: The Implications of Crustal Heterogeneity for Structure, Rheology, and Tectonics II
  Friday, 28 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
• RHEOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON THE FOCUSING OF DEFORMATION IN ACTIVE OROGENS
  19 NEtectonics: The Implications of Crustal Heterogeneity for Structure, Rheology, and Tectonics II
  Friday, 28 March 2008

  8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
• ANISOTROPY OF MINERAL ELASTICITY AND ITS ROLE IN DEFORMATION AND FABRIC DEVELOPMENT IN METAPELITES
  16 NEtectonics: The Implications of Crustal Heterogeneity for Structure, Rheology, and Tectonics (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 March 2008

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• COUPLED MICROPROCESSES AND RHEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN A REACTIVE SHEAR ZONE
  16 NEtectonics: The Implications of Crustal Heterogeneity for Structure, Rheology, and Tectonics (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 March 2008

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2007

• MICROSTRUCTURES AND STRESSES AT THE BASE OF SEISMOGENIC FAULTS: COUPLING OF DEFORMATION ACROSS THE FRICTIONAL TO VISCOUS TRANSITION
  46 Strain Partitioning and Rheological Evolution in Orogens
  Wednesday, 14 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• CRENULATION CLEAVAGE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS RHEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
  31 Strain Partitioning and Rheological Evolution in Orogens (Posters)
  Tuesday, 13 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• TEXTURAL AND PETROCHEMICAL VARIABILITY ACROSS A SHEARED PLUTON MARGIN, NORTHEASTERN APPALACHIANS, USA
  31 Strain Partitioning and Rheological Evolution in Orogens (Posters)
  Tuesday, 13 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• 3-D NUMERICAL MODELING OF ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHIC TERRANE EVOLUTION IN THE NORWEGIAN CALEDONIDES
  31 Strain Partitioning and Rheological Evolution in Orogens (Posters)
  Tuesday, 13 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM
• MINERALS, METAMORPHISM AND RHEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
  6 Mineral Properties: Geochemical, Petrological, and Environmental Applications.
  Monday, 12 March 2007

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEODYNAMIC MODELING OF OBLIQUE OROGENESIS: APPLICATION TO NEW ZEALAND AND THE ACADIAN OROGEN OF MAINE
  25 Structure, Tectonics, and Geophysics (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• THERMAL-MECHANICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A SHALLOW ASTHENOSPHERE IN A DEFORMING OROGEN: CONSTRAINTS FROM 3-D NUMERICAL MODELING
  25 Structure, Tectonics, and Geophysics (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• NUMERICAL AND ANALOG STUDY OF THE ST. ELIAS OROGENY
  25 Structure, Tectonics, and Geophysics (Posters)
  Tuesday, 21 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MIGMATITES OF THE SILURIAN RANGELEY FORMATION AND THE WILDCAT GRANITE: NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA
  21 Time Slices Across the Appalachians: Tectonic Settings of Silurian-Devonian Igneous Rocks in the Appalachian Orogen I
  Tuesday, 21 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• HOT FOREARC IN THE ORDOVICIAN BOUNDARY MOUNTAINS, MAINE
  5 Time Slices Across the Appalachians: Tectonic and Depositional Settings of Cambro-Ordovician Rocks in the Appalachian Orogen I
  Monday, 20 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• ANALOG MODEL OF GLACIAL SURGE AFTER ICE SHELF COLLAPSE
  8 Meltwater Discharge Events from Proglacial and Subglacial Environments: Landforms, Deposits, and Processes (Posters)
  Monday, 20 March 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2005

• THE CHAIN LAKES MASSIF: LAURENTIAN SOURCE AND ANATECTIC HISTORY
  17 New Models of Appalachian Tectonics Inspired by Geochronology: 3rd Annual NETectonics Session I
  Tuesday, 15 March 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• STRAIN PARTITIONING AND THE TIMING OF HIGH-GRADE ACADIAN METAMORPHISM IN SOUTH-CENTRAL MAINE
  17 New Models of Appalachian Tectonics Inspired by Geochronology: 3rd Annual NETectonics Session I
  Tuesday, 15 March 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2004

• MODELING PORPHYROBLAST NUCLEATION AND GROWTH, AND THE EFFECTS ON RHEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
  T80 Modeling Grain-Scale Processes in Metamorphic Rocks
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• MODELING THE RELATIONS AMONG PORPHYROBLAST GROWTH, PSEUDOMORPHISM AND STRAIN LOCALIZATION IN TURBIDITE SUCCESSIONS
  T80 Modeling Grain-Scale Processes in Metamorphic Rocks
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2003

• EXPLORING THE COUPLING OF DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM
  T21 Understanding Coupled Metamorphic and Deformational Processes: Advances in Integrated Textural, Chemical, and Microstructural Analysis
  Sunday, 2 November 2003

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• EVIDENCE FOR FAST MAGMA CHAMBER CONSTRUCTION: THE DEFORMED CARAPACE OF THE SAN JOSE TONALITE PLUTON, MEXICO
  T22 Granites at Convergent Margins: Physical and Chemical Constraints on Processes and Petrogenesis
  Sunday, 2 November 2003

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• EMPLACEMENT-RELATED MICROSTRUCTURES IN THE DEFORMED CARAPACE OF A TONALITE PLUTON: EVIDENCE FOR FAST CHAMBER CONSTRUCTION
  23 Processes in Felsic Magma Chambers—From Crystallization and Evolution to Emplacement I
  Friday, 28 March 2003

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
• RELATIONS BETWEEN DEFORMATION AND METAMORPHISM IN THE AUREOLE OF THE MOOSELOOKMEGUNTIC PLUTON, WESTERN MAINE
  7 Structural and Metamorphic Geology (Posters)
  Thursday, 27 March 2003

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• APPLICATION OF EROSIONAL-RHEOLOGICAL COUPLED MECHANICAL MODELS TO ANCIENT OROGENS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE NORUMBEGA SHEAR ZONE IN MAINE
  12 Structural and Metamorphic Geology
  Thursday, 27 March 2003

  1:40 PM - 5:00 PM

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2002

• THE JURASSIC EASTERN PENINSULAR RANGES BATHOLITH IN BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO: NEW AGES FROM AN ANCIENT CONTINENTAL ARC
  38 Phanerozoic Subduction-related Magmatism in Mexico: Comparison with the Rest of the Cordillera
  Wednesday, 15 May 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2001

• STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND TIMING OF ACADIAN TECTONISM IN EAST-CENTRAL MAINE: CONSTRAINTS FROM MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND IN-SITU MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY
  183 Tectonics IV: Appalachian Tectonics- Evolution of Orogens
  Thursday, 8 November 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• KINEMATICS OF THE BOIL MTN. OPHIOLITE - CHAIN LAKES MASSIF CONTACT
  T110 Arc Terranes in the Appalachians and Caledonides and their Role in Paleozoic Orogenesis II
  Wednesday, 7 November 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• MODELING STRAIN RATES AROUND RAPIDLY GROWING PLUTONS
  T89 Melt in the Crust and Upper Mantle: How Much, Where, for How Long, and What Significance for Geodynamics?
  Tuesday, 6 November 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• SYNDEFORMATIONAL MELTING IN MESOZOIC TONALITES AND METAPELITES FROM THE SIERRA SAN PEDRO MARTIR AREA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
  32 Tectonics (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• MICROSTRUCTURES IN THE POST-TECTONIC SAN JOSé PLUTON, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO: EVIDENCE FOR BOTH MAGMATIC AND SOLID-STATE DEFORMATION AND THEIR BEARING ON PLUTON EMPLACEMENT
  12 Deformation, Metamorphism, and Melting: Interactions in the Crust II
  Monday, 12 March 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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• TACKLING THE ENIGMATIC ACADIAN OROGEN IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
  34 Paleozoic Tectonics of the Northern Appalachian Mountains: New Insights and Persistent Problems: First Annual NETectonics Symposium (Posters)
• NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLUID PRESSURE GRADIENTS IN ANISOTROPIC ROCKS UNDERGOING HETEROGENEOUS DEFORMATION
  19 Undergraduate Research (Posters) II
• STRAIN PARTITIONING IN A TRANSPRESSIVE OROGEN, CENTRAL COASTAL MAINE
  18 Tectonics, Structural Geology, and Geophysics (Posters)
• THE CHAIN LAKES MASSIF, MAINE AND QUÉBEC: A PRODUCT OF EXTENSION?
  18 Tectonics, Structural Geology, and Geophysics (Posters)
• A POLYMINERALIC APPROACH TO THE MODELING OF CRENULATION CLEAVAGE DEVELOPMENT
  33 Rheology, Kinematics, and Strain Localization in Faults and Shear Zones (Posters): NEtectonics
• THE CHAIN LAKES MASSIF AND BOIL MOUNTAIN COMPLEX, WEST-CENTRAL MAINE: A PERSISTENT PROBLEM IN ORDOVICIAN APPALACHIAN OROGENESIS
  34 Paleozoic Tectonics of the Northern Appalachian Mountains: New Insights and Persistent Problems: First Annual NETectonics Symposium (Posters)
• METAMORPHISM, TRANSIENT MID-CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY AND THE EXHUMATION OF HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHIC ROCKS
  33 Metamorphic Rocks and Shear Zones: Stitching Together Appalachian Terranes (Posters)
• MODELING ULTRA HIGH PRESSURE TERRANE EVOLUTION: INITIAL RESULTS
  33 Metamorphic Rocks and Shear Zones: Stitching Together Appalachian Terranes (Posters)
• MODEL STRAIN AND MODEL FABRIC DEVELOPMENT IN 3D OBLIQUE OROGENS
  T186 Crustal Seismic Anisotropy as a Measure of Regional Tectonic Deformation (Posters)
• THE EXHUMATION OF A HIGH-METAMORPHIC GRADE TERRANE WITHIN A TRANSPRESSIONAL OROGEN: CONSTRAINTS FROM NUMERICAL MODELING IN CENTRAL COASTAL MAINE
  T227 Exhumation Along Major Continental Strike-Slip Fault Systems (Posters)