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2010 Annual Meeting: Reaching New Peaks in Geoscience
31 Oct. - 3 Nov., Denver, Colorado USA
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Field Trips/Courses due 1 Dec.; Technical Sessions due 12 Jan.
Field Forum Scheduled:
Significance of along-strike variations for the 3-D architecture of orogens: The Hellenides and Anatolides in the eastern Mediterranean
16-22 May 2010, Samos, Greece
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Structural evolution of the sedimentary accretionary wedge of the alpine system in Eastern Sicily: Thermal and thermochronological constraints

Cenozoic tectonics of the Nicaraguan depression, Nicaragua, and Median Trough, El Salvador, based on seismic-reflection profiling and remote-sensing data

Bivergent thrust wedges surrounding oceanic island arcs: Insight from observations and sandbox models of the northeastern Caribbean plate

Regional intraplate exhumation episodes related to plate-boundary deformation

Geology and geochronology of Paleozoic rocks in western Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: Evidence for contiguity across an extruded high-pressure belt and constraints on Paleozoic reconstructions

The stratigraphic signature of the late Cenozoic Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment

Isotopic composition of low-latitude paleoprecipitation during the Early Cretaceous

High-resolution Holocene climate record from Maxwell Bay, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Oceanic spreading center–generated basaltic crust and associated sulfidic and carbonate-rich hydrothermal deposits in the Archean (ca. 3 Ga), North Spirit Lake greenstone belt, Ontario, Canada

High-resolution seismic and resistivity profiling of a buried Quaternary subglacial valley: Northern Alberta, Canada

Craton-derived alluvium as a major sediment source in the Himalayan Foreland Basin of India

Structural architecture and active deformation of the Nankai Accretionary Prism, Japan: Submersible survey results from the Tenryu Submarine Canyon

An inter–ice-stream glaciated margin: Submarine landforms and a geomorphic model based on marine-geophysical data from Svalbard

Eruption recurrence rates in a basaltic volcanic field based on tephra layers in maar sediments: Implications for hazards in the Auckland volcanic field

Cenomanian sequence stratigraphy and sea-level fluctuations in the Tarfaya Basin (SW Morocco)

First in situ observation of crystallization processes in a basaltic-andesitic melt with the moissanite cell

An Upper Cretaceous sag pond deposit: Implications for recognition of local seismicity and surface rupture along the Kaibab monocline, Utah

Holocene ooids of Aitutaki Atoll, Cook Islands, South Pacific

Climate-driven processes of hillslope weathering

Multiple inflation and deflation events at Kenyan volcanoes, East African Rift

Satellite remote sensing of thermal activity at Bezymianny and Kliuchevskoi from 1993 to 1998

Lawsonite Lu-Hf geochronology: A new geochronometer for subduction zone processes

Deposits of flows transitional between turbidity current and debris flow

Tsunami geomorphology: Erosion and deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island tsunami

Direct calculation of rupture depth for an exhumed paleoseismogenic fault from mylonitic pseudotachylyte

The combined effect of sea level and supply during Milankovitch cyclicity: Evidence from shallow-marine 18O records and sequence architecture (Adriatic margin)

Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from 18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman, and Brazil

Extraterrestrial demise of banded iron formations 1.85 billion years ago

The stable isotope altimeter: Do Quaternary pedogenic carbonates predict modern elevations?

Lake-sediment geochemistry reveals 1400 years of evolving extractive metallurgy at Cerro de Pasco, Peruvian Andes

Strain localization in vesicular magma: Implications for rheology and fragmentation

Cellular energy conservation and the rate of microbial sulfate reduction

Impacts of late Holocene rapid climate changes as recorded in a macrotidal coastal setting (Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France)

Timing and magnitude of recent accelerated sea-level rise (North Carolina, United States)

Barchan dunes stabilized under recent climate warming on the northern Great Plains

Diverse aqueous environments on ancient Mars revealed in the southern highlands

A possible link between the geomagnetic field and catastrophic climate at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

Magnetostratigraphic data on Neogene growth folding in the foreland basin of the southern Tianshan Mountains

Capturing crystal growth

Regional exhumation history of brittle crust during subduction initiation, Fiordland, southwest New Zealand, and implications for thermochronologic sampling and analysis strategies

Geochemical evidence for exhumation of eclogite via serpentinite channels in ocean-continent subduction zones

Composition and provenance of the Snowcap assemblage, basement to the Yukon-Tanana terrane, northern Cordillera: Implications for Cordilleran crustal growth

Miocene structural reorganization of the South Tibetan detachment, eastern Himalaya: Implications for continental collision

P/T ratio in high-pressure rocks as a function of dip and velocity of continental subduction

Deformation analysis of tuffaceous sediments in the Volcanic Tableland near Bishop, California

Mafic volcanism on the Puna Plateau, NW Argentina: Implications for lithospheric composition and evolution with an emphasis on lithospheric foundering

Geobiology: Evidence for early life on Earth and the search for life on other planets

Facing major challenges in carbon capture and sequestration

Did natural reactors form as a consequence of the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis during the Archean?

The Portland Basin: A (big) river runs through it

Field Guide 15:
Volcanoes to Vineyards:
Geologic Field Trips through the
Dynamic Landscape of the Pacific Northwest

Nontechnical guide for
land managers, educators,
and the public:
Geological Monitoring

Special Paper 459:
Hydrothermal Processes
above the Yellowstone Magma Chamber:
Large Hydrothermal Systems
and Large Hydrothermal Explosions

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