GreatBREAK Submitted Abstract Index

June 18, 2004
Please contact John Louie if you need to revise an abstract.
  1. Arehart, Greg (University of Nevada, Reno) - Gustafson, Lew (Independent Consultant); Earthscope as a tool for understanding crustal mass transfer processes in the Great Basin

  2. Aster, R. - Wilson, D. (New Mexico Tech) - West, M. - Ni, J. (New Mexico State University) - Grand, S. - Gao, W. (University of Texas, Austin) - Baldridge, W.S. (Los Alamos National Laboratory) - Semken, S. (Arizona State University); Passive Teleseismic Imaging of Extensional Processes and Small-Scale Convection

  3. Glenn Biasi (UNR); CORRESPONDENCE OF REGIONAL STRAIN AND RELATIVE STRENGTH INFERRED FROM SHALLOW MANTLE VELOCITY VARIATIONS

  4. Blewitt, Geoffrey (University of Nevada, Reno) - Coolbaugh, Mark (University of Nevada, Reno) - Holt, William (State University of New York at Stony Brook) - Bennett, Richard (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) - Davis, James (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); A Map of Current Tensor Strain Rate in the Basin and Range from GPS (poster).

  5. Briggs, R.W. (Center for Neotectonic Studies, University of Nevada, Reno) - Wesnousky, S.G. (CNS, UNR) - Ryerson, F.J. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) - Finkel, R.C. (LLNL) - Meriaux, A.S. (LLNL); Slip rate and paleoseismic studies in the Walker Lane and Basin and Range: A complement to Earthscope and the Plate Boundary Observatory

  6. Brown, Larry (Cornell University); Seismic bright spots, deep fluids and EARTHSCOPE

  7. Bruhn, Ronald - Schuster, Gerard (Dept. Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah); Applications of EarthScope Initiatives in crutal imaging and LIDAR mapping to determine the 'Pulse of the Earthquake Engine'

  8. Carlson, Richard, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Causes and Consequences of the Voluminous Late-Cenozoic Volcanism of the Northern Great Basin

  9. P.H. Cashman, J.H. Trexler, Jr., T. Muntean, K. Mass, H. Park, J. Faulds, J. Louie, G. Oppliger, and A. Ten Brink (University of Nevada, Reno); Deformation history along the Sierra Nevada -- Basin and Range transition zone near Reno, Nevada: the record in Neogene basin deposits

  10. Colgan, Joseph P (Stanford) - Dumitru, Trevor A (Stanford) - Lerch, Derek (Stanford) - Miller, Elizabeth L (Stanford); Cenozoic volcanic and structural evolution of the northwestern Basin and Range Province: Implications for large-scale flow of the lower crust.

  11. Coolbaugh, Mark F. (University of Nevada, Reno) - Faulds, James E. (University of Nevada, Reno) - Blewitt, Geoffrey (University of Nevada, Reno) - Henry, Christopher D. (University of Nevada, Reno); Geothermal Activity: Another Clue for Unraveling Recent Great Basin Tectonics

  12. Crossey, L.J. and Newell, D. (University of New Mexico); Xenowhiffs: Linking tectonism to hydrology of the Western U.S. through travertine and spring geochemistry

  13. Davis, James (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)-Wernicke, Brian (California Institute of Technology)-Bennett, Richard (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics); Temporal variations of geodetic velocities in the Basin and Range

  14. Faulds, James E. (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno)- Henry, Christopher D. (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno)- Blewitt, Geoff (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno)- Coolbaugh, Mark (Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, University of Nevada, Reno); THE NORTHERN WALKER LANE, NORTHWESTERN GREAT BASIN: A YOUTHFUL PART OF THE NORTH AMERICAN-PACIFIC TRANSFORM MARGIN

  15. Anke Friedrich, Yves Gaudemer, Geoffrey King, Rolando Armijo, and Manfred Strecker (Potsdam and IPG de Paris); Using Tectonic Geomorphology to study pulses of active deformation, Great Basin

  16. Gaherty, James (LDEO) - Zhao, Li (USC) - LernerLam, Art (LDEO); Mapping mantle structure and fabric beneath the Basin and Range and surrounding regions

  17. Hersh Gilbert, Anne Sheehan, Matthew Fouch, George Zandt, and Susan Beck; Crustal thickness and Moho variability as an indicator of tectonic activity within the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau

  18. Hammond, William (U.S. Geological Survey); Constraints on Basin and Range lithospheric dynamics from the Global Positioning System

  19. Harris, R.A., Smith, R.B., Wu-Lung, C., and Meertens, C.; Temporal Distribution of Extensional Strain across the Southern Wasatch Fault Zone: Geological Constraints for the GPS Velocity Field.

  20. Harry, Dennis (Colorado State); The role of lateral heat conduction in continental extensional tectonics.

  21. Henry, Christopher D. (University of Nevada) - Ressel, Michael W. (Newmont Mining Corporation); INTERRELATION OF CARLIN-TYPE Au DEPOSITS, EOCENE MAGMATISM, LATE PROTEROZOIC RIFTING, RUBY MTS CORE COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT, AND FOUNDERING OF THE LARAMIDE SHALLOW SLAB

  22. Henry, Christopher D. (University of Nevada, Reno) - Faulds, James E. (University of Nevada, Reno); PAIRED MAGMATIC-TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTHERN WALKER LANE (NWL), NORTHWESTERN NEVADA AND NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA

  23. Humphreys, Gene, University of Oregon; Great Basin activity in the context of North America dynamics since the Laramide

  24. Ichinose, Gene (URS) - Thio, Hong Kie (URS) - Saikia, Chandan (URS); Application of Broadband Seismology in the Basin and Range and Surrounding Regions for Estimating Earthquake Source Parameters and Regional Velocity Models

  25. Jones, Craig H. (Univ. Colorado, Boulder) - Farmer, G. Lang (Univ. Colorado, Boulder) - Bartley, John M. (Univ. Utah); Burning bridges while hinterlands collapse around you

  26. Karlstrom, Karl E. (University of New Mexico); Reactivation history of continental lithosphere of the Great Basin RegionÑProterozoic to Present

  27. B. Mack Kennedy (LBNL) - M.C. van Soest (LBNL); Helium isotope "map" of the Basin and Range

  28. Kent, Graham- Babcock, Jeff-Driscoll, Neal- Harding, Alistair- Dingler, Jeff (SIO)- Seitz, Gordon (SDSU)- Gardner, Jim (USGS)- Gayes, Paul (Coastal Carolina Univ.)- Goldman, Charles-Heyvaert, Alan-Richards, Bob (UCD)- Karlin, Bob (UNR)- Mayer, Larry (UNH)- Morgan, Craig (AVALEX)- Owen, Lewis (UCR); A 50ka Record of Extension Across the Western Boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Constraints from Submerged Paleo-Shorelines and Normal Faults Beneath Lake Tahoe

  29. King, Geoffrey, IPG Paris, France - Friedrich, Anke, Institut fur Geowissenschaften Universitet Potsdam, Germany - Bowman, David, Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, CA.; Speculations on the evolution of the East California Shear Zone and associated structures by fault propagation: comparison with the mechanics of Anatolia and the Aegean.

  30. Lerch, D.L. (Stanford University) - Colgan, J.C. (Stanford University) - Klemperer, S.L. (Stanford University) - Miller, E.L. (Stanford University) - Gashawbeza, E. (Stanford University); Plans for a funded 250km wide-angle reflection/refraction study across the northwestern Basin and Range transition zone: to be acquired in September 2004

  31. John N. Louie, Aasha Pancha, Glenn P. Biasi, Weston Thelen, James B. Scott, Nevada Seismological Lab 174, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, louie@seismo.unr.edu; Mark F. Coolbaugh, Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, University of Nevada, Reno; and Shawn Larsen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA.; Tests and Applications of 3-D Geophysical Model Assembly for the Great Basin

  32. Lowry, Anthony R. (Department of Physics, University of Colorado); Modeling Great Basin lithospheric deformation: Applications of EarthScope data

  33. Miller, Elizabeth L. (Stanford University)- Dumitru, Trevor. A. (Stanford University); Space-Time Evolution Extension in the Northern Basin and Range Province: Progress and Problems

  34. Muntean, John (Placer Dome Exploration); Origin of the Carlin and Battle Mountain Eureka Trends

  35. Ni, James (NMSU) - West, Michael (NMSU) - Aster, Richard (NMTech) - Grand, Stephen (UT Austin) - Gao, Wei (UT Austin) - David Wilson (NMTech) - Baldridge, W. Scott (LANL) - Sandvol, Eric (U. of Missouri, Columbia); Small-Scale Convection Along the Edges of the Great Plains and Colorado Plateau

  36. Oldow, John S., University of Idaho; CRUSTAL CONTROL OF TRANSTENSION AND STRAIN PARTITIONING IN THE WESTERN GREAT BASIN

  37. Owens, Tom (University of South Carolina) - Crotwell, Philip (University of South Carolina); Receiver Reference Models: A Prototype for automated production of EarthScope/USArray data products

  38. Pancha, Aasha - Anderson, John G. (UNR); Basin and Range Seismicty: Distribution, regional and local occurrence rates, moment release and comparison with geodesy.

  39. Pankow, Kris L. (University of Utah) - Bruhn, Ronald L. (University of Utah); Re-examining the transition from the Basin and Range Tectonic Province to the Middle Rocky Mountains Tectonic Province

  40. Donghong Pei (NSL-UNR), Gene Ichinose (URS Corporation) and Ken Smith (NSL-UNR); M 6.1 1993 Eureka Valley Earthquake: Listric Normal Faulting Constrained from Aftershock Relocations and Teleseismic Body Wave Models

  41. Phinney, Robert A. (Princeton University) - Zhou, Ying (Princeton University); Imaging a crustal-scale detachment in the southern Sierra- Central Basin and Range area

  42. Plank, Terry (Boston University); Constraints on Mantle Melting from Inversion of Basalt Compositions

  43. Preston, Leiph (UNR) - Vonseggern, David (UNR) - Smith, Ken (UNR); Obtaining Focal Mechanisms for Small Earthquakes (M<3) from First-Motions and Amplitudes

  44. Price, Jonathan (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology); Key Geological Applications of EarthScope in Nevada

  45. Roy, Mousumi and Kelley, Shari (UNM); Mid-Tertiary buoyancy modification and its relation to rock exhumation, cooling, and subsequent extension at the eastern margin of the Colorado Plateau

  46. Schutt, Derek L. (University of Wyoming) - Lesher, C. E. (University of California, Davis); The Effects of Composition, Melting, and Temperature on the Seismic Velocity and Density of the Upper Mantle

  47. Schweickert, R.A. (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Smith, K.D., Lahren, M.M., and Howle, J.; Transtensional deformation and spatial and temporal partitioning of fault activity along the Sierra nevada-Great Basin boundary zone

  48. Seitz, Gordon, San Diego State University- Kent, Graham, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.- Karlin, Bob, University of Nevada Reno; Closing the Gap between On and Offshore Records of Active Deformation in the Lake Tahoe Basin

  49. R. Smith, W. Chang, G. Waite, C. Puskas (University of Utah) and A. Lowry (University of Colorado); What's Moving In The Basin-Range!

  50. Catherine M. Snelson (Geoscience Department, University of Nevada Las Vegas); Investigating the lithosphere in the Great Basin

  51. Sutherland, Fiona (UCSD)-Harding, Alistair (UCSD)-Kent, Graham (UCSD); Comparing and contrasting extension styles in the Southern Gulf of California and the Basin and Range

  52. Taylor, Wanda J. Taylor Dept. of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Mesozoic and Cenozoic Structural Evolution of the Great Basin near 115¡30ÕW Longitude

  53. Thatcher, Wayne, Hammond, Bill, and Nyst, Marleen (all at U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 94025); Present Day Continental Deformation and PBO Science Goals

  54. Philip E. Wannamaker (Univ. of Utah); Architecture, physical state and dynamics of the Great Basin as revealed through electrical conductivity structure under Earthscope

  55. Wesnousky, Steven (UNR); Paleoseismic Transect across the northern Great Basin

  56. Caroline Whitehill- Joseph Colgan- Trevor Dumitru- Elizabeth Miller (Stanford); Extent, style and age of extension east of Pyramid Lake

  57. Wilson, Charlie (Stanford University); Constraining Lithospheric Structure with Teleseismic Scattered Phases

  58. Zandt, George (U. of Arizona)- Jones, Craig (U. of Colorado)- Gilbert, Hersh (U. of Arizona)- Owens, Tom (U. of South Carolina); Rayleigh-Taylor-type Instability during Continental Breakup: An Example from the Eastern California Shear Zone

  59. Zhdanov, Michael (University of Utah) - Golubev, Nikolay (University of Utah); 3-D JOINT INVERSION OF SEISMIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC DATA FOR RECOVERING COMPLEX GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE IN THE GREAT BASIN REGION