2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)
Session No. 11 Sunday, November 2, 2003
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Washington State Convention and Trade Center: 3B

T15. Characterizing Complexity in Geomechanics, Engineering Geology, and Hydrogeology

William C. Haneberg and Edmund Medley, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
11-18:00 AM PROCESSES OF FAULT DEVELOPMENT IN A LAYERED SANDSTONE AND SHALE SEQUENCE: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE MOAB FAULT, UTAH: DAVATZES, Nicholas C. and AYDIN, Atilla, Geological and Environmental Science, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, davatzes@pangea.stanford.edu
11-28:15 AM USING GEOMECHANICAL MODELING TO CONSTRAIN THE 3-D FAULT GEOMETRY WITHIN THE WESTERN MARMARA SEA, TURKEY: MULLER, Jordan R. and AYDIN, Atilla, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305, mullerj@pangea.stanford.edu
11-38:30 AM COMPACTION BANDS AS ANTICRACKS IN SANDSTONE: TAMING COMPLEXITY THROUGH INTEGRATED OBSERVATION, EXPERIMENTATION AND PROCESS-BASED SIMULATION: STERNLOF, Kurt, POLLARD, David, and CHOPRA, Gaurav, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford Univ, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, kurtster@pangea.stanford.edu
11-48:45 AM DEFORMATION BANDS IN NONWELDED IGNIMBRITES: PETROPHYSICAL CONTROLS ON FAULT-ZONE DEFORMATION AND EVIDENCE OF PREFERENTIAL FLUID FLOW: WILSON, Jennifer E., Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, jenw@nmt.edu, GOODWIN, Laurel B., Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, and LEWIS, Claudia J., Earth & Environmental Sciences Division (EES-9), Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545
11-59:00 AM FIELD-BASED ANALYSIS OF INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC CONTROLS ON FAULT-ZONE DEFORMATION PROCESSES IN POORLY LITHIFIED MATERIALS, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR HYDROLOGIC STUDIES: GOODWIN, Laurel B.1, WILSON, Jennifer E.1, and RAWLING, Geoffrey C.2, (1) Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, lgoodwin@nmt.edu, (2) New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801
11-69:20 AM APPLYING POWER-LAW RELATIONSHIPS IN GEOTECHNICAL CHARACTERIZATION: KEATON, Jeffrey R., AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc, 1290 North Hancock Street, Suite 102, Anaheim, CA 92807-1924, jeff.keaton@amec.com and RUCKER, Michael L., AMEC Earth & Environmental, 3232 West Virginia Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85009
11-79:35 AM STOCHASTIC MODELS OF FRACTURE NETWORKS BASED ON MECHANICAL STRATIGRAPHY: COOKE, Michele, Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, cooke@geo.umass.edu, UNDERWOOD, Chad, Montgomery-Watson, Madison, WI, SIMO, Toni, Dept. Of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, and MULDOON, Maureen, UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
11-89:55 AM MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF 3-D BLOCK POPULATIONS TO CHARACTERIZE BOREHOLE AND OUTCROP SAMPLING BIAS: HANEBERG, William C., Haneberg Geoscience, 4434 SE Land Summit Court, Port Orchard, WA 98366, bill@haneberg.com.
 10:10 AM Break
11-910:25 AM IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS FOR CHARACTERIZING TECTONIC MELANGE FOR TUNNELLING: BUTTON, Edward A., Institute For Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling, Graz Univ of Technology, Rechbauerstrasse 12, Grazt A-8010 Austria, button@tugraz.at.
11-1010:40 AM CONFIRMATION OF SUBSURFACE GEOLOGIC CONDITIONS OF THE UC BERKELEY STANLEY HALL REPLACEMENT PROJECT BY CONSTRUCTION FIELD OBSERVATIONS: GODWIN, William H.1, SHAFER, John Ryan2, and MULLER, Christian P.2, (1) Novato, whgodwin@mactec.com, (2) Oakland, CA
11-1110:55 AM INCREASES IN SLOPE STABILITY OF ROCK/SOIL MIXTURES DUE TO TORTUOSITY OF FAILURE SURFACES AROUND ROCK BLOCKS: MEDLEY, Edmund W., Exponent Failure Analysis Association, 149 Commonwealth Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025-1133, emedley@exponent.com.
11-1211:10 AM GEOMECHANICAL MODELLING OF COMPLEX ROCK FAILURE MECHANISMS: STEAD, Douglas, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser Univ, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada, dstead@sfu.ca, COGGAN, John, Camborne School of Mines, Univ of Exeter, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3SE, United Kingdom, and EBERHARDT, Erik, Engineering Geology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich, CH-8093, Switzerland
11-1311:25 AM STATE-OF-THE-PRACTICE IN CHARACTERIZATION OF LANDSLIDE PRONE TERRAIN USING REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS, GLOBAL POSITIONING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY: ROGERS, J. David and JAMES, Kevin L., Department of Geological Engineering, Univ of Missouri-Rolla, 129 McNutt Hall, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409, rogersda@umr.edu
11-1411:45 AM CHARACTERIZING THE LANDSLIDE HAZARD OF NORTHEASTERN KANSAS USING MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION: OHLMACHER, Gregory C., Kansas Geological Survey, Univ of Kansas, 1930 Constant Ave, Lawrence, KS 66047, ohlmac@kgs.ukans.edu and DAVIS, John C., Davis Consultants Inc, Box 353, Baldwin City, KS 66006

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