2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM
Session No. 263 Tuesday, 7 October 2008
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, George R. Brown Convention Center: General Assembly Theater Hall A

P4. Large Scale Continental Deformation at Plate Boundaries (GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division)

Lucy M. Flesch and Nathan Niemi, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:30 PM Introductory Remarks
263-11:35 PM The EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory Unified Geodetic Network: MILLER, Meghan and JACKSON, Michael, UNAVCO, 6350 Nautilus Drive, Boulder, CO 80301, meghan@unavco.org
263-21:55 PM The EarthScope Rio Grande Rift GPS Experiment: Measuring Active Tectonics in Colorado and New Mexico: SHEEHAN, Anne1, BERGLUND, Henry T.1, ROY, Mousumi2, LOWRY, Anthony3, NEREM, R. Steven4, BLUME, Frederick5, and SZELIGA, Walter1, (1) Geological Sciences and CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, afs@cires.colorado.edu, (2) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, MSCO3-2040, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, (3) Department of Geology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, (4) Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, (5) UNAVCO, Boulder, CO 80301
263-32:15 PM Contemporary Deformation of the Basin and Range Lithosphere from GPS Observations, and What They Imply for Continental Dynamics: HAMMOND, William Charles, BLEWITT, Geoff, and KREEMER, Corné, Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557, whammond@unr.edu
263-42:35 PM Crustal Rotation and Deformation In the Snake River Plain and Northern Basin and Range Province: PAYNE, Suzette J., Geosciences, Idaho National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2025, Suzette.Payne@inl.gov, KING, Robert W., EAPS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, and MCCAFFREY, Robert, GNS Science, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
263-52:55 PM Effects of the Yellowstone Hotspot and Mantle Plume on the Western U.S: SMITH, Robert1, PUSKAS, Christine1, FARRELL, Jamie1, CHANG, Wulung1, STEINBERGER, Bernhard2, and O’CONNELL, Richard3, (1) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, r.smith@earth.utah.edu, (2) Center for Geodynamics, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, 7030, Norway, (3) Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
 3:15 PM Break
263-63:30 PM Pace and Tempo of Deformation in Eastern California Over the Past 3 Ma: Implications for the Geodynamic Evolution of Right-Lateral Shear along the Western Margin of the Basin and Range: KIRBY, Eric, Department of Geoscience, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA 16802, ekirby@geosc.psu.edu, WALKER, Douglas, Department of Geology, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, REHEIS, Marith, U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS 980, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, PHILLIPS, Fred, Earth and Environmental Science Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, and BURBANK, Doug, Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
263-73:50 PM Insights on Lithospheric Delamination from the Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project (SNEP): ZANDT, George, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, gzandt@email.arizona.edu, GILBERT, Hersh, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, JONES, Craig, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado - Boulder, CB 399, Boulder, CO 80309, and OWENS, Thomas J., Department of Geological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
263-84:10 PM Imaging Large-Scale Continental Deformation across the Western United States: FOUCH, Matthew J., School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287, fouch@asu.edu
263-94:30 PM Present and Past Crustal Deformation in the Western United States: Why Are They Different?: LIU, Mian, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, lium@missouri.edu and YANG, Youqing, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Missouri-Columbia, 101 Geology Building, Columbia, MO 65211
263-104:50 PM North America Dynamics and Western U.S. Tectonics: HUMPHREYS, Eugene D., Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, genehumphreys@gmail.com
 5:10 PM Discussion

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