Northeastern Section - 43rd Annual Meeting (27-29 March 2008)

Session No. 3
Thursday, 27 March 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

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

 

Chris Gerbi, Michael Williams and Scott E. Johnson, Advocates
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:10 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, hbosbyshel@wcupa.edu
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8:30 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 and EUSDEN Jr., J. Dykstra, Geology, Bates College, 44 Campus Avenue, Lewiston, ME 04240, shiggin2@bates.edu, shiggin2@bates.edu
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8:50 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, jkopera@geo.umass.edu
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9:10 AM
APPLICATIONS OF AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM TO MEASURING HETEROGENEOUS STRAIN IN A THRUST SHEET
KARABINOS, Paul, Dept. Geosciences, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, PIERCE, Elizabeth L., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Universtiy, New York, NY 10025 and WARREN, Chris, Information Technology, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, pkarabin@williams.edu, pkarabin@williams.edu
 
9:30 AM
Break
5
9:50 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, ca98@cornell.edu
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10:10 AM
ALONG-STRIKE VARIATIONS IN CRUSTAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE TAIWAN AND TACONIC COLLISIONAL OROGENS
CRESPI, Jean M., Department of Geology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 1504, Slovenia and BYRNE, Tim, Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, jean.crespi@uconn.edu, jean.crespi@uconn.edu
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10:30 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, kuipery@bc.edu
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10:50 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, 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, mlw@geo.umass.edu, mlw@geo.umass.edu
 
11:10 AM
Discussion: Lessons from studying heterogeneity in the field
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