Northeastern Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (27-29 March 2008)
Session No. 19 Friday, 28 March 2008
8:00 AM-9:40 AM, Hyatt Regency Buffalo: Delaware Suites

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

Chris Gerbi, Michael Williams and Scott E. Johnson, Presiding
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 8:00 AM Poster session summary
19-18:20 AM SYN- AND POST-CONVERGENT DEFORMATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CRUST: NUMERICAL MODELS WITH APPLICATION TO THE WESTERN GRENVILLE OROGEN: JAMIESON, Rebecca A., Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Haifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada, beckyj@dal.ca and BEAUMONT, Chrisopher, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada
19-28:40 AM RHEOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON THE FOCUSING OF DEFORMATION IN ACTIVE OROGENS: HOOKS, Benjamin P.1, KOONS, Peter O.1, JOHNSON, Scott1, UPTON, Phaedra2, GERBI, Christopher1, and PAVLIS, Terry3, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, benjamin.hooks@umit.maine.edu, (2) Geology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (3) Department of Geological Sciences, UTEP, El Paso, TX 79902
19-39:00 AM RHEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITY AND THE STATE OF STRESS IN THE ROOTS OF A LARGE-DISPLACEMENT, STRIKE-SLIP, SEISMOGENIC FAULT: THE NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEM IN MAINE: JOHNSON, Scott E.1, KOONS, Peter1, WEST, David P. Jr2, and PRICE, Nancy1, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Maine, 5790 Bryand Global Sciences, Orono, ME 04469, johnsons@maine.edu, (2) Geology Dept, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753
19-49:20 AM DEFORMATION LOCALIZATION DURING SHORTENING OF HETEROGENEOUS CRUST: CRUDEN, Alexander1, SCHRANK, Christoph1, and RILLER, Ulrich2, (1) Dept. of Geology, University of Toronto, 22 Russell St, Toronto, ON M5S 3B1, Canada, cruden@geology.utoronto.ca, (2) Museum for Natural History, Humboldt University, Invalidenstrasse 43, Berlin, 10115, Germany

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