2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009)

Session No. 254
Wednesday, 21 October 2009: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
Hall A (Oregon Convention Center)

T54. Structural Evolution and Timing of Orogenic Uplift in the Tertiary Mountain Ranges of Central Asia (Posters)

GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division

Authors will be present from 4 to 6 PM.

 

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THE ACTIVE TECTONICS OF NE ASIA
WALKER, Richard T., Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, United Kingdom, richw@earth.ox.ac.uk, richw@earth.ox.ac.uk
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TECTONIC SETTING AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE LATE CENOZOIC GOBI ALTAI OROGEN, MONGOLIA
CUNNINGHAM, Dickson, Department of Environmental Earth Science, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, Willimantic, CT 06226, cunninghamw@easternct.edu, cunninghamw@easternct.edu
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STRIKE-SLIP AND EXHUMATION HISTORY OF THE EAST GOBI FAULT ZONE, SOUTHEASTERN MONGOLIA, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE CENOZOIC ERA
TAYLOR, Joshua P.1, WEBB, Laura E.2, JOHNSON, Cari3 and HEUMANN, Matthew J.3, (1)Dept. of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, (2)Dept. of Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, (3)Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, jtaylo03@syr.edu, jtaylo03@syr.edu
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LATE PLEISTOCENE SLIP RATE OF THE HöH SERH-TSAGAAN SALAA FAULT ZONE, MONGOLIAN ALTAI AND INTRACONTINENTAL TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION IN CENTRAL ASIA
FRANKEL, Kurt L.1, WEGMANN, Karl W.2, BADER, Nick E.3, CARSON, Robert J.4, BAYASGALAN, Amgalan5, DUFREY, Chelsea C.3, SPRAJCAR, Jodi6, SWEENEY, Kristin E.7 and COLBERT, Tina1, (1)School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, (2)Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27696-8208, (3)Geology, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362, (4)Department of Geology and Environmental Studies, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, (5)Geoinformatics Center, Mongolian Univ of Sci and Technology, P.O.Box 49/418, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, (6)Department of Geology, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, (7)Department of Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, kfrankel@gatech.edu, kfrankel@gatech.edu
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A NEW ESTIMATE OF THE RATE OF ACTIVE DEFORMATION AND THE DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE IN THE MONGOLIAN ALTAY MOUNTAINS
GREGORY, Laura C., School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom, WALKER, Richard T., Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3DP, United Kingdom, AMGAA, Tsolmon, Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna, A-1090, Austria, AMGALAN, Bayasgalan, School of Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, 210349, Mongolia and WEST, A. Joshua, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 117 ZHS, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, l.c.gregory@leeds.ac.uk, l.c.gregory@leeds.ac.uk
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BUILDING A LATEST QUATERNARY SLIP HISTORY FOR THE CENTRAL ALTYN TAGH FAULT: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEEP-TIME PALEOSEISMOLOGY
COWGILL, Eric, Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 and GOLD, Ryan, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, escowgill@ucdavis.edu, escowgill@ucdavis.edu
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USING CLIMATE VARIABILITY TO TRACK TOPOGRAPHIC GROWTH OF THE NORTHEASTERN MARGIN OF THE TIBETAN PLATEAU
HOUGH, Brian, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, GARZIONE, Carmala, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, WANG, Zhicai, Institute of Earthquake Engineering, Shandong Earthquake Administration, Jinan, 250014, China and LEASE, Richard, Institute für Geowissenschaften, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, 72974, Germany, bhough@earth.rochester.edu, bhough@earth.rochester.edu
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LATE MIOCENE ONSET OF FAULT SLIP ALONG MARGINS OF THE GONGHE BASIN, NE TIBET: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF TOPOGRAPHY IN NE TIBET
CRADDOCK, William, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192, KIRBY, Eric, Department of Geosciences, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 and ZHANG, Huiping, State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, 100083, China, wcraddock@usgs.gov, wcraddock@usgs.gov
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TECTONIC EVOLUTION AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF AFGHANISTAN
ONISHI, Celia Tiemi, Earthquake Hazards, U. S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road MS 977, Menlo Park, CA 94025 and MOONEY, Walter D., Earthquake Hazards, U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3591, tonishi@usgs.gov, tonishi@usgs.gov
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U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES REVEAL PALEOGENE EMERGENCE OF MUZTAGHATA, EAST PAMIR, CHINA
BERSHAW, John, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627 and GARZIONE, Carmala, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, jbershaw@earth.rochester.edu, jbershaw@earth.rochester.edu
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STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF EXHUMATION OF THE HIMALAYAN METAMORPHIC CORE, GARHWAL HIMALAYA
SPENCER, Christopher, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, S-389 ESC, Provo, UT 84602, HARRIS, Ron, Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, S-389 ESC, Provo, UT 84602 and AHMAD, Talat, Geology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 110091, India, spenchristoph@gmail.com, spenchristoph@gmail.com
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