Northeastern Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (27-29 March 2008)
Session No. 3 Thursday, 27 March 2008
8:00 AM-11:30 AM, Hyatt Regency Buffalo: Regency Ballroom

T2. NEtectonics: The Implications of Crustal Heterogeneity for Structure, Rheology, and Tectonics I

Chris Gerbi, Michael Williams and Scott E. Johnson, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
3-18:10 AM RELATING STRAIN HETEROGENEITY AND METAMORPHIC HISTORY: OUTCROP AND REGIONAL EXAMPLES FROM THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN PIEDMONT: BOSBYSHELL, Howell, Department of Geology and Astronomy, West Chester Univ, 750 South Church Street, West Chester, PA 19383, hbosbyshel@wcupa.edu
3-28:30 AM QUANTIFYING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EARLY ACADIAN LINEATION PRESIDENTIAL RANGE, NH: HIGGINS, Stephanie A., Geology, Bates College, Box 425, Campus Ave, Lewiston, ME 04240, shiggin2@bates.edu and EUSDEN, J. Dykstra Jr, Geology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 04240
3-38:50 AM THE INFLUENCE OF DUCTILE STRUCTURE AND RHEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITY ON BRITTLE STRUCTURES AS EXHIBITED BY AVALONIAN GRANITES IN SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS: KOPERA, Joseph P., Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist, University of Massachusetts, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-5820, jkopera@geo.umass.edu
3-49:10 AM APPLICATIONS OF AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM TO MEASURING HETEROGENEOUS STRAIN IN A THRUST SHEET: KARABINOS, Paul, Dept. Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, pkarabin@williams.edu, PIERCE, Elizabeth L., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Universtiy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observaory, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, and WARREN, Chris, Information Technology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267
 9:30 AM Break
3-59:50 AM MAGMATISM AND THE LOCALIZATION OF STRAIN ALONG VERTICAL BOUNDARIES IN MAGMATIC ARCS: ANDRONICOS, Christopher, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, ca98@cornell.edu
3-610:10 AM ALONG-STRIKE VARIATIONS IN CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE TAIWAN AND TACONIC COLLISIONAL OROGENS: CRESPI, Jean M. and BYRNE, Tim, Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, jean.crespi@uconn.edu
3-710:30 AM INDICATIONS FOR CHANNEL FLOW IN THE OMINECA BELT IN SOUTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA: KUIPER, Yvette D., Geology & Geophysics, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, 213 Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, kuipery@bc.edu
3-810:50 AM LATERAL HETEROGENEITY, DEFORMATION PARTITIONING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINENTAL CRUST FROM INTEGRATED FIELD STUDIES OF EXPOSED ISOBARIC SECTIONS: WILLIAMS, Michael, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, mlw@geo.umass.edu, KARLSTROM, Karl, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, DUMOND, Gregory, Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, 611 N. Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01003, and MAHAN, Kevin, Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Campus Box 399, 2200 Colorado AVE, Boulder, CO 80309
 11:10 AM Discussion: Lessons from studying heterogeneity in the field

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