2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 92 Monday, 23 October 2006
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 108 A

Tectonics I

Ashraf Uddin and Andrew Kylander-Clark, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
92-11:30 PM SELF-SUBDUCTION OF A GLOBAL PLATE – THE BEGINNING OF PANGEA'S END?: GUTIERREZ-ALONSO, Gabriel, Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain, gabi@usal.es, FERNANDEZ-SUAREZ, Javier, Departmento de Petrologia y Geoquimica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 28040, WEIL, Arlo, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, MURPHY, J. Brendan, Dept. of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G2W5, Canada, NANCE, R. Damian, Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701, CORFÚ, Fernando, Institute of Geology, University of Oslo, Blindern, Postboks 1047, Oslo, N-0316, Norway, and JOHNSTON, Stephen T., School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Petch 187, PO Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
92-21:45 PM U-PB TITANITE AGES OF DECOMPRESSION MELTING DURING EXHUMATION OF THE WESTERN GNEISS REGION ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE TERRANE: KYLANDER-CLARK, Andrew1, HACKER, Brad1, MATTINSON, Jim2, and RIOUX, Matt2, (1) Geological Sciences, UC, Santa Barbara, Department of Geological Sciences, UC Santa Barbara—Building 526, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630, akylander@umail.ucsb.edu, (2) Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
92-32:00 PM MODES OF TECTONIC ACCRETION AND RECENT (< 10 MA) TECTONIC EXHUMATION IN THE SOUTHERN APENNINES FOLD AND THRUST BELT (ITALY): STRUCTURAL AND THERMOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS: MAZZOLI, Stefano1, ALDEGA, Luca2, CORRADO, Sveva2, D'ERRICO, Marco1, INVERNIZZI, Chiara3, SHINER, Peter4, and ZATTIN, Massimiliano5, (1) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’, Largo San Marcellino 10, Naples, 80138, Italy, stefano.mazzoli@unina.it, (2) Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi ‘Roma Tre’, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, Rome, 00146, Italy, (3) Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Università di Camerino, Via Gentile III da Varano, Camerino (MC), 62032, Italy, (4) Shell Italia E & P, Via Due Macelli 66, Rome, 00187, Italy, (5) Dipartimento Scienze Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni, Bologna, 40126, Italy
92-42:15 PM WIDESPREAD AREAL EXTENSIONAL VOLCANISM ATOP A SHORTENING OROGEN: IMPLICATIONS FOR CRUSTAL EVOLUTION: SENGÖR, A.M. Celâl, Avrasya Yerbilimleri Enstitüsü, Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Ayazaga, Istanbul 34469 Turkey, sengor@itu.edu.tr
92-52:30 PM DETACHMENT FAULT AND SHEAR ZONE OF THE CRETAN-PELOPONNESE RIDGE IN KYTHERA ISLAND: MARSELLOS, Antonios E., Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222, am214525@albany.edu and KIDD, W.S.F., Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ at Albany, Albany, NY 12222
92-62:45 PM A NEWLY IDENTIFIED, OPPOSITE SENSE AEGEAN CRUSTAL BLOCK PERSISTENT SINCE THE EOCENE REQUIRES KEY REVISIONS TO E-MEDITERRANEAN GEODYNAMICS MODELS: GRASEMANN, B.1, EDWARDS, M.A.2, SCHNEIDER, D.A.3, IGELSEDER, Ch.4, ZÁMOLYI, A.2, PETRAKAKIS, K.5, RAMBOUSEK, Ch.2, MUELLER, M.2, VOIT, K.1, and THOENI, M.1, (1) Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, Structural Processes Group Vienna, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14/2B447, Vienna, 1, Bernhard.Grasemann@univie.ac.at, (2) Structural Processes Group Vienna, Vienna, 1, Austria, (3) Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701, (4) Structural Processes Group, Vienna, 1, Austria, (5) UZA - Universitätszentrum Althanstraße, Wien, 1, Austria
92-73:00 PM RAPID RISE (~3 MM/Y) OF COASTAL ABU DHABI: WOOD, Warren W.1, STOKES, Stephen2, BRANDT, Danita1, KRAEMER, Thomas F.3, and IMES, Jeffery L.4, (1) Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, 206 Natural Sci. Building Department of Geological Sciences, East Lansing, MI 48824, wwwood@msu.edu, (2) School of Geography and the Environment, Univ of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, (3) Water Resources Division, U. S. Geol Survey, MS 430, National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192, (4) USGS-NDC Ground Water Research Program, National Drilling Co, P.O. Box 15287, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
92-83:15 PM LARGE-SCALE UNDERTHRUSTING AT THE WESTERN END OF THE INDO-ASIAN COLLISION ZONE: EVIDENCE FROM THE EASTERN MARGIN OF THE PAMIR: ROBINSON, Alexander C.1, YIN, An1, MANNING, Craig E.1, HARRISON, T. Mark1, and WANG, Xiao-Feng2, (1) Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, acrobinson@uh.edu, (2) Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
92-93:30 PM CREATING TIBETAN PLATEAU THE TIAN SHAN WAY: LARGE-SCALE OUT-OF-SEQUENCE THRUSTING AS A MECHANISM FOR TIBETAN PLATEAU DEVELOPMENT: YIN, An, MCRIVETTE, Michael, BURGESS, W. Paul, and CHEN, Xuanhua, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, yin@ess.ucla.edu
92-103:45 PM 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: JESSUP, Micah J.1, COTTLE, John M.2, NEWELL, Dennis L.3, SEARLE, Michael P.4, LAW, Richard D.1, and TRACY, Robert J.5, (1) Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, mjessup@vt.edu, (2) Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Parks Road, OX1 3PR, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3) Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Northrop Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (4) Earth Sciences, Oxford Univ, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, (5) Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
92-114:00 PM STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MAIN CENTRAL THRUST AND SOUTH TIBET DETACHMENT IN THE NW INDIA HIMALAYA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR A NEW MODEL FOR THE HIMALAYAN DEVELOPMENT: WEBB, A. Alexander G., Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Univ of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, awebb@ess.ucla.edu and YIN, An, Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
92-124:15 PM MIOCENE EXHUMATION OF THE HIMALAYAN METAMORPHIC CORE: NEW THERMOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS FROM THE LANGTANG VALLEY, NEPAL: WOBUS, Cameron1, PRINGLE, Malcolm S.2, HODGES, Kip V.3, WHIPPLE, Kelin X.3, and HUNTINGTON, Katharine W.4, (1) CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, cameron.wobus@colorado.edu, (2) Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave 54-1022, Cambridge, MA 02139, (3) School of earth and space exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, (4) Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave 54-1024, Cambridge, MA 02139
92-134:30 PM RATE OF ACTIVE SHORTENING ACROSS THE AKSAI RESTRAINING STEPOVER ALONG THE ALTYN TAGH FAULT, GANSU PROVINCE, NW CHINA: GOLD, Ryan, Dept. of Geology, Univ of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, gold@geology.ucdavis.edu, COWGILL, Eric, Dept. of Geology, Univ of California Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, EHLERS, Todd, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 2534 C.C. Little Building, 1100 North University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, WANG, Xiao-Feng, Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China, and CHEN, Xuanhua, Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geol Sciences, Beijing, 10081, China
92-144:45 PM U-PB ZIRCON CONSTRAINTS ON PROVENANCE OF CENOZOIC SEDIMENTS OF THE ASSAM-BENGAL SYSTEM, EASTERN HIMALAYAS: UDDIN, Ashraf1, BOWRING, Samuel2, CROWLEY, James2, and RAMEZANI, Jahandar2, (1) Dept. of Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 210 Petrie Hall, Auburn, AL 36849-5305, uddinas@auburn.edu, (2) Dept. Earth, Atm. & Planet. Sci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
92-155:00 PM COMPLEXITIES FO SHEARING BETWEEN SOUTH CHINA AND INDOCHINA DURING EXTRUSION FROM TRIASSIC TO RECENT TIME: BURCHFIEL, B. Clark1, SWANSON, Erika1, and CHEN, Liangzhong2, (1) Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 54-1010, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, bcburch@mit.edu, (2) Yunnan Institute of Geological Sciences, 131 Baita Rd, Kunming, China
92-165:15 PM GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT OF SO-CALLED COLLISIONAL IMJIN BELT ALONG DMZ, KOREA: CHWAE, Ueechan, Geology, KIGAM, 30 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-350, South Korea, chwae@naver.com, CHOI, Sung-Ja, Geology, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Rscs, 30 Gajeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Taejon, 305-350, South Korea, and ADACHI, Mamoru, The Nagoya University Museum, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikus-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan

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