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GSA2016 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION
GSA TODAY | MAY 2016 T218. Evidence for Neotectonic Earthquakes and Their Driving Advocates: Raymond V. Ingersoll; Stephan A. Graham; Timothy
Mechanisms in the Intraplate Region of Central and Eastern F. Lawton
North America
This session will honor William R. Dickinson for his leadership
Cosponsors: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA in the diverse fields of plate tectonics, arc-trench systems,
Geophysics Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Cordilleran tectonics, sedimentary basins, sandstone provenance,
Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; and geoarchaeology.
EarthScope; U.S. Geological Survey
T222. Proterozoic Accretion of the North American
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Geophysics/ Continent—United Plates of America Revisited
Geodynamics, Quaternary Geology
Cosponsor: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Advocates: J. Wright Horton Jr.; Christine A. Powell; Robert
A. Williams Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Precambrian Geology
This session presents evidence for intraplate neotectonic earth- Advocates: M.L. Williams; Karl E. Karlstrom; David Corrigan;
quakes in central and eastern North America and their driving Jeffrey Amato; Deanne van Rooyen
mechanisms in relation to lithospheric structure, and invites novel
multidisciplinary field, laboratory, and modeling approaches. This session will focus on the Proterozoic accretion and stabili-
zation of the North American continent, particularly the timing
T219. In Honor of Chuck Kluth: The Pennsylvanian–Permian and orogenic processes including the stitching of Archean blocks
Ancestral Rocky Mountains and its Links to the Texas and and the subsequent southward growth of continental crust.
Southern California—Northwestern Mexico Continental
Margins of North America (Posters) T223. Rates in Metamorphism and Tectonism: From Mineral
Growth to Orogenesis
Cosponsors: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division;
GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Cosponsors: GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
Geology) Volcanology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Structural Geology, Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Petrology, Metamorphic,
Stratigraphy Structural Geology
Advocates: Paul J. Umhoefer; Gary L. Gianniny; Ron Blakey Advocates: Thomas M. Etzel; Eric D. Kelly; Kyle T. Ashley;
Elizabeth J. Catlos
This session explores the tectonics and basins within the
Ancestral Rocky Mountains and their link to the west Texas This session focuses on rates of processes associated with meta-
Permian basin and South American collision and to the west and morphism and orogenesis, specifically the connections and
southwest to the Pacific margin. dependencies among various rates. We encourage submissions on
rates of diffusion, crystallization, heating/cooling, fault/plate
T220. Physical and Numerical Modeling of Geologic Processes motion, and other orogenic processes.
Cosponsor: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division T224. Records of Subduction Initiation in Modern and Ancient
Settings
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Geophysics/
Geodynamics, Structural Geology Cosponsors: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division
Advocates: Raphaël Gottardi; Suzon Jammes; Lijun Liu; Gabriele
Morra; Mélody Philippon; Jacqueline E. Reber; Jolante W. van Wijk Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Volcanology, Sediments,
Clastic
This cross-disciplinary session will foster synergies between the
experimental and numerical modeling communities to quantify Advocates: Nancy Riggs; Kathleen M. Marsaglia; Andrew P. Barth;
and improve the incorporation of geological processes in models M. Robinson Cecil
from the mineral to plate-tectonic scale.
Geodynamic models for subduction initiation are testable in a
T221. Plate Tectonics, Arc-Trench Systems, Cordilleran Tectonics, few ancient and modern examples (e.g., Cordilleran Permo-
Sedimentary Basins, Sandstone Provenance, and Geoarchaeology: Triassic, Izu-Bonin-Mariana). The session explores subduction
A Celebration of William R. Dickinson’s Career initiation from rock record, temporal, and geodynamic perspec-
tives, emphasizing the need for integrative studies.
Cosponsors: GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA
Publications; GSA Archaeological Geology Division; GSA Structural T225. Tectonics of North American Cordillera and the Alps:
Geology and Tectonics Division Celebrating the Telling-It-Like-It-Is Scientific Career of
Tim Wawrzyniec
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Sediments, Clastic,
Archaeological Geology Cosponsor: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Structural Geology,
Geophysics/Geodynamics
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