Northeastern Section - 47th Annual Meeting (18–20 March 2012)

Session No. 25
Monday, 19 March 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Capital Rooms 2 & 3 (Hartford Marriott Downtown)

T3. Modeling Deformation from the Micro to the Macro

 

Phillip G. Resor and Michele L. Cooke, Advocates
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8:00 AM
FRACTURES OF THE DAMMAM DOME CARBONATE OUTCROPS: THEIR CHARACTERIZATION, EVOLUTION, AND POTENTIAL AS RESERVOIR ANALOGUES
AL-FAHMI, Mohammed M., Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 33 Conz St, 2R, Northampton, MA 01060-4163, COOKE, Michele, Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9297 and COLE, John, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, 31311, Saudi Arabia, fahmimm@hotmail.com, fahmimm@hotmail.com
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8:20 AM
INTERPRETING INTERSEISMIC OBSERVATIONS WITH MICROPLATE MOTION MODELS
LOVELESS, John P., Geosciences, Smith College, Clark Science Center, 44 College Lane, Northampton, MA 01063 and MEADE, Brendan J., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, jloveles@smith.edu, jloveles@smith.edu
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8:40 AM
LABORATORY MODELS OF TIME-VARYING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW AND DEFORMATION OF THE MANTLE IN SUBDUCTION ZONES
SZWAJA, Sara1, KINCAID, Chris1 and DRUKEN, Kelsey2, (1)Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 02882, (2)Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, Washington, DC 20015, sszwaja@my.uri.edu, sszwaja@my.uri.edu
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9:00 AM
THE WORK OF FAULT GENERATION IN THE LABORATORY
HERBERT, Justin, Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Morrill Science Center, 611 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002 and COOKE, Michele, Geosciences, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, jherbert@geo.umass.edu, jherbert@geo.umass.edu
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9:20 AM
USING FOLD GEOMETRY TO INFER TESSERA FOLDING MECHANISMS IN OVDA REGIO, VENUS
MULHERN, Julia1, RESOR, Phillip G.1, GILMORE, Martha1 and HERRICK, Robert2, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, 265 Church St, Middletown, CT 06459, (2)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, P.O. Box 757320, 903 Koyukuk Dr, Fairbanks, AK 99775, jmulhern@wesleyan.edu, jmulhern@wesleyan.edu
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9:40 AM
CONSTRAINTS ON TESSERA FORMATION FROM STRUCTURAL MAPPING AND MECHANICAL MODELING
RESOR, Phillip G., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, 265 Church St, Middletown, CT 06459, GILMORE, Martha, Earth and Environmental Science Department, Wesleyan University, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459 and MULHERN, Julia, Geology and Geophysics Department, University of Utah, 115 South 1460 East, Room 383, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, presor@wesleyan.edu, presor@wesleyan.edu
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