204 Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology

Oral Session
General Discipline Sessions
Monday, 6 October 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 332AD

Presiding:
Kevin Mickus and Catherine Snelson
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:45 PM
Breakthroughs in Seismic Imaging of Basalts for Sequestration of Man-Made CO2
E. Charlotte Sullivan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Bob A. Hardage, University of Texas Austin; Steve Roche, CGG Veritas; Bernard Peter McGrail, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2:00 PM
Geophysical Investigations of Groundwater Flow Associated with the Saratoga Warm Springs and the Tecopa Hot Springs near Death Valley, California
Antony Munika Wamalwa, University of Texas at El Paso; Laura Serpa, University of Texas at El Paso; Diane Doser
2:30 PM
Crustal Structure in the Pakistan Himalayas
Aibing Li, University of Houston; Bongani Mashele, University of Houston
2:45 PM
PICASSO: Testing Models for Upper Mantle Processes beneath the Alboran Basin and the Gibraltar Arc (Western Mediterranean)
John P. Platt, Univ of Southern California; Thorsten W. Becker, Univ of Southern California; Rob L. Evans, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Eugene D. Humphreys, University of Oregon; Cin-Ty Lee, Rice Univ; Alan Levander, Rice University
3:00 PM
Geodetic Imaging of Large-Scale Continental Deformation with ALOS InSAR and GPS
David T. Sandwell, UCSD; Bridget Smith-Konter, University of Texas at El Paso
3:15 PM
Break
3:30 PM
The Southern Gondwana Margin In Patagonia and the Mesozoic Opening Basins
Francisco Nullo, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Miguel Haller, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco
3:45 PM
Large-Scale Continental Deformation: Fluid-Rock Interaction and Compartmentalization along the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD
John G. Solum, Shell International Exploration and Production; Stephen H. Hickman, US Geological Survey; D.L. Kirschner, Saint Louis Univ; David A. Lockner, U.S. Geological Survey; Diane Moore, U.S. Geological Survey; Wendy M. Calvin, University of Nevada
4:00 PM
The Long-Term Dynamics of the Seismogenic Layer in Western North America
Elliot C. Klein, Stony Brook University; Lucy M. Flesch, Purdue University; William E. Holt, Stony Brook University; John Haines, University of Cambridge
4:45 PM
Joint Analysis of GPS and Shear-Wave Splitting Data to Understand Large-Scale Continental Deformation in Central Asia
Lucy M. Flesch, Purdue University; Paul G. Silver, Carnegie Institution of Washington
5:00 PM
2008 George P. Woollard Award Technical Lecture - Dr. Gene Humphreys -
5:20 PM
Discussion