2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)
Session No. 44 Sunday, November 2, 2003
1:00 PM-3:45 PM, Washington State Convention and Trade Center: 609

Structural Geology I: Advances in Rock Mechanics

Juliet Crider, Michele Cooke and Luke A. Jensen, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
44-11:00 PM A MODIFIED VERSION OF THE RATE- AND STATE- DEPENDENT FRICTION LAW DESCRIBING A FRACTURE VELOCITY DEPENDENCE OF FRICTION: MORRONE, Mirta, Scienze della Terra e Geologico-Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Via Zamboni 67, Via Emilia Ponente 234, Bologna 40126 Italy, morrone@geomin.unibo.it.
44-21:15 PM CONSTRAINTS ON NATURAL FAULT MECHANICS FROM OBSERVATIONS OF LOW-ANGLE NORMAL FAULTS COMPARED WITH LABORATORY ROCK-STRENGTH VALUES: AXEN, Gary J., Dept. Earth & Space Sciences, Univ. of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, gaxen@ess.ucla.edu.
44-31:30 PM CONJUGATE FAULTS IN THE BRITTLE REALM: OLD AND NEW PERSPECTIVES: AYDIN, A., DAVATZES, N., and FLODIN, E., Geological & Environmental Sci, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305, aydin@stanford.edu
44-41:45 PM INVERTING FOR HETEROGENEOUS SLIP ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL FAULT SYSTEMS: A FIRST STEP TOWARD UNDERSTANDING FAULT MECHANICS: RESOR, Phillip G., MAERTEN, Frantz, and POLLARD, David, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, presor@stanford.edu
44-52:00 PM INSIGHT TO THE MECHANICS OF FAULTING FROM 3-D SLIP DISTRIBUTIONS DURING STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES: WILKINS, Scott J., Structure, Traps, and Seals Team, Shell Int'l Exploration & Production Inc, Bellaire Technology Center, P.O. Box 481, Houston, TX 77001-0481, scott.wilkins@shell.com and SCHULTZ, Richard A., Geological Sciences, Univ of Nevada, Geomechanics-Rock Fracture Group, Reno, NV 89557
44-62:15 PM METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYSIS OF FRACTURE REACTIVATION IN RESPONSE TO THERMALLY INDUCED STRESSES AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN: FRANKLIN, Nathan M.1, FERRILL, David A.1, OFOEGBU, Goodluck I.1, and MORRIS, Alan P.2, (1) Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, Southwest Rsch Institute® , 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238, nfranklin@cnwra.swri.edu, (2) Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Univ of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, TX 78249
44-72:30 PM NUMERICAL MODELING OF TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON ELASTO-VISCOUS FOLDING: JENSEN, Luke A.1, PATERSON, Scott R.1, HOBBS, Bruce E.2, ORD, Alison2, and ZHANG, Yanhua2, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, lajensen@earth.usc.edu, (2) Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre, CSIRO Exploration & Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia
44-82:45 PM EVOLUTION OF THE PUENTE HILLS THRUST SYSTEM, LOS ANGELES: OLSON, Erik L., Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53715, erikolson2@yahoo.com and COOKE, Michele, Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9297
44-93:00 PM X-RAY AND MAGNETIC FABRICS OF THE CARBONERAS FAULT, SPAIN; COMPARISON WITH PERMEABILITY STRUCTURE: SOLUM, John G. and VAN DER PLUIJM, Ben A., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, 425 E University Ave, 2534 C.C. Little Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, jsolum@umich.edu
44-103:15 PM USING LASER SCANNING AND DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY TO CHARACTERIZE AND ANALYZE THE MORPHOLOGY OF JOINTS: MYNATT, Ian, BERGBAUER, Stephan, and POLLARD, David D., Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, imynatt@pangea.stanford.edu
44-113:30 PM USING BOREHOLE-WALL FRACTURE TRACES TO ESTIMATE MEAN FRACTURE SIZE AND ASPECT RATIO: HEINY, Christopher James1, DUNNE, William Matthew1, MAULDON, Matthew2, and WANG, Xiaohai2, (1) Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, Geological Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, Cheiny@utk.edu, (2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 200 Patton Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061

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