Session No. 21 Thursday, April 4, 2002

8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Hyatt Regency Hotel: Patterson Ballroom C
S7. Ancient Basement Faults and Modern Earthquakes
William A. Thomas, Russell L. Wheeler and John H. McBride, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
21-08:00 AM THE BLUE RIDGE FRONT: A FAULT SCARP REVISITED: ACKERMAN, S. D. and KNAPP, J. H., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of South Carolina, 701 Sumter St, EWS 617, Columbia, SC 29208, sackerman@geol.sc.edu
21-08:20 AM FAULT REACTIVATION, SEISMIC HAZARD, AND BACKGROUND NOISE EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: WHEELER, Russell L., USGS, P.O. Box 25046, MS 966, Denver, CO 80225, wheeler@usgs.gov.
21-08:40 AM FAULT LOADING AND EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCE WITHIN LOCALIZED ZONES OF RELATIVE WEAKNESS: KENNER, Shelley J., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, skenner@uky.edu.
21-09:00 AM SEISMIC REFLECTION INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE REELFOOT RIFT: PARRISH, Shane and VAN ARSDALE, Roy, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, shaneparrish@hotmail.com
21-09:20 AM CONTRASTS IN BASEMENT FAULTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY BASEMENT GRABEN AND THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE: THOMAS, William A., Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, geowat@pop.uky.edu.
21-09:40 AM MAKING THE CASE FOR FAULT REACTIVATION IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN REGION: MCBRIDE, John H., Illinois State Geological Survey and Dept. of Geology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 E. Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, mcbride@isgs.uiuc.edu and NELSON, W. John, Illinois State Geol Survey, 615 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820-6964
21-010:00 AM SEISMIC REFLECTION INVESTIGATION OF THE COTTAGE GROVE FAULT SYSTEM, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS BASIN: DUCHEK, Amanda B., Dept. of Geology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1301 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, duchek@uiuc.edu, MCBRIDE, John H., Illinois State Geological Survey and Dept. of Geology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 E. Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, and LEETARU, Hannes E., Illinois State Geological Survey and, Department of Geology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
21-010:20 AM TERTIARY-HOLOCENE TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN SOUTHERNMOST ILLINOIS: NELSON, W. John1, MCBRIDE, John H.2, PUGIN, Andre J.M.3, DENNY, F. Brett4, and LARSON, Timothy H.3, (1) Illinois State Geol Survey, 615 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820-6964, jnelson@isgs.uiuc.edu, (2) Illinois State Geological Survey and Dept. of Geology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 E. Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820, (3) Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody drive, Champaign, IL 61820, (4) Illinois State Geol Survey, 5776 Coal Drive, Carterville, IL 62918
21-010:40 AM THE EASTERN TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE: SMALL EARTHQUAKES ILLUMINATING MAJOR BASEMENT FAULTS?: CHAPMAN, Martin C.1, MUNSEY, Jeffrey W.2, WHISNER, S. Christopher3, and WHISNER, Jennifer3, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, mcc@vt.edu, (2) TVA, RSO&E, River Operations, Knoxville, TN 37902, (3) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, 306 Geological Sciences Bldg, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
21-011:00 AM BASEMENT FAULTS IN THE EAST TENNESSEE SEISMIC ZONE: OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SWAN CREEK GAS FIELD: TAVERNIER, Stephen A. and WILLIAMS, Richard T., Geological Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, rick@tennessee.edu
21-011:20 AM PLACING RECENT SEISMICITY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE (SC) IN THE CONTEXT OF REPEATED PHANEROZOIC FAULTING: DENNIS, Allen J., Biology and Geology, Univ South Carolina - Aiken, 471 University Pkwy, Aiken, SC 29801-6309, dennis@sc.edu and STEVENSON, Donald, Westinghouse Savannah River Co, Aiken, SC 29803
21-011:40 AM HISTORIC SEISMICITY IN NW SOUTH CAROLINA: REACTIVATION OF THE TRIASSIC MARIETTA-TRYON GRABEN SYSTEM?: KNAPP, James H., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of South Carolina, 617 Earth Water Science Bldg, Columbia, SC 29208, knapp@geol.sc.edu.

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