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The Central Piedmont Shear Zone of the Southern Appalachian Piedmont
Allen Dennis, Univ South Carolina Aiken The central Piedmont shear zone in western South Carolina, sometimes called the Cross Anchor fault, juxtaposes Ediacaran-Cambrian rocks of Carolinia with Silurian Cat Square ...

The Reactivation of the Lost Lakes Fault in Yosemite National Park (USA): When Did it Happen and What Does it Mean?
Richard Becker, UW-Madison Basil Tikoff, UW-Madison David Greene, Denison University The Lost Lakes Fault is an 8 km long NW-striking structure that parallels the Sierra Crest in Yosemite National Park. The ...

Rotation Statistics in Structural Geology
Joshua Davis, Carleton College Sarah Titus, Carleton College Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison Many geologic data are geometric in nature, consisting not just of numbers but also of directions, ...

Timing and Style of Deformation in the Nashoba Formation of the Nashoba Terrane, Eastern Massachusetts
Wesley Buchanan, Colorado School of Mines Yvette Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines Robet Buchwaldt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Nashoba terrane (NT) is a moderately northwest-dipping fault-bounded ...

Mapping deformed Pennsylvanian Rocks in the Dunkard Basin, Southwestern, Pennsylvania using GigaPan Images
Patricia Campbell, Slippery Rock University Matthew Graves, Slippery Rock University Michael Stapleton, Slippery Rock University Thomas Anderson, University of Pittsburgh Panoramic images of an outcrop produced ...

Applying Cognitive Science Research to Improve Geoscience Teaching and Learning
Carol Ormand, SERC, Carleton College Thomas F. Shipley, Psychology, Temple University Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin - Madison The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center conducts research on spatial ...

The Rich Isotopic Memory of Illite: An Example of Clay Dating and Fluid Fingerprinting from the Zimapán Basin in Central Mexico
Elisa Fitz-Díaz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México John Cottle, University of California, Santa Barbara Ben van der Pluijm, University of Michigan Besides vein-forming minerals such as quartz and calcite, ...

Structural Geology of the Nadaleen Trend, Northeastern Yukon Territory, Canada: Implications for Recent Au Discoveries
Justin C. Palmer, Colorado School of Mines Yvette D. Kuiper, Colorado School of Mines Recent Au discoveries in the eastern Nadaleen Trend of northeastern Yukon Territory are hosted in strongly deformed, ...

EllipseFit 3: A New Computer Program for Integrated Geological Finite Strain Analysis
Frederick Vollmer, SUNY New Paltz EllipseFit 3 is an entirely new version of EllipseFit, an integrated program for geological finite strain analysis. It is designed for determining two and three-dimensional strain ...

Creating, Disseminating, and Testing Interactive 3D Models for Teaching Structural Geology
Paul Karabinos, Williams College Many fundamental geologic concepts are rooted in 3D spatial relationships. Well-crafted 2D perspective diagrams illuminate such relationships for some students, but interactive 3D ...