T21D:
Behavior of the Lower Crust and the Brittle-Ductile Transition in Continental Deformation II

Session ID#: 4868

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Salon 9 (Marriott Marquis)
Chairs:  Gary J Axen, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
Primary Convener:  Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
Co-conveners:  Gary J Axen, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth & Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

8110 Continental tectonics: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8120 Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8159 Rheology: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8164 Stresses: crust and lithosphere [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

T21D-01
Delocalization of Deformation in a Polymineralic Material (9635)
Suzon Jammes, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Yanhui Suo, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China and Jacqueline E Reber, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States
T21D-02
Fluid-controlled fabric development across a brittle-ductile shear zone: an example from a Wyangala Batholith, Australia (21138)
Liene Spruzeniece and Sandra Piazolo, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
T21D-03
Transient Stress Magnitudes in the Middle Crust along the Alpine Fault (22619)
Steven B Kidder, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, Virginia Toy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and David John Prior, University of Otago, Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand
T21D-04
Strength Profiles of the Continental Lithosphere: Fabric Dependence, Strain Dependence, and Implications for Stability and Localization (Invited) (16948)
Laurent Montesi, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States and Frédéric Gueydan, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier cedex 5, France
T21D-05
Development of Mylonites and Pseudotachylites in Granitic Bodies: Brittle Deformation by Reactivation of Pre-existing Ductile Fabrics Defined by Mica (19143)
Hehe Jiang1, Catherine Ross2, Cin-Ty Lee1 and Julia Morgan1, (1)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (2)McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
T21D-06
Analog Modeling of the Interplay between Subduction and Lateral Extrusion in the European Alps (21544)
Inge E van Gelder1, Ernst Willingshofer2 and Dimitrios Sokoutis1, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
T21D-07
Mechanisms of Strain Localization: Implications for Lithospheric Strength and the Structure of Plate-Boundary Shear Zones (Invited) (6048)
John P Platt, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
T21D-08
Role of fluid overpressures in crustal strength and the form of the brittle–ductile transition (29183)
John Suppe, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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