SCLM Rifting and Regional Shearing in the N American Superior Craton − Implications for Deformation, Mineralization, and Tectonic Reconstructions
Lyal Harris, INRS-ETE, Québec Jean Bédard, Geological Survey of Canada, Québec 3D images of S-wave seismic tomographic velocity anomalies for the Superior Province, N America, illustrate that the Abitibi ...

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 ...

Anatomy of the 200 km-long, Left-lateral Surface Rupture from the 24 September 2013 Mw7.7 Balochistan Earthquake, Southern Pakistan
Ryan Gold, U.S. Geological Survey Nadine Reitman, U.S. Geological Survey Richard Briggs, U.S. Geological Survey William Barnhart, U.S. Geological Survey Gavin Hayes, U.S. Geological Survey The 24 September 2013 ...

Finding Active Faults Using Earthquake Focal Mechanisms, Geomorphic Analysis and Field Work (SLAM)
Vincent Cronin, Baylor University Jordan Dickinson, Baylor University The seismo-lineament analysis method (SLAM) uses an earthquake focal mechanism and a DEM or topographic map, along with geomorphic analysis, to ...

Strain Localization (and De-localization?) in Deep Continental Crust: Examples from an Exhumed Section and Remote Observations from Still Deep Crust in North America
Kevin H. Mahan, University of Colorado-Boulder Sean Regan, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Omero P. Orlandini, University of Colorado-Boulder Michael L. Williams, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Vera ...

Normal Faulting and Graben Development as Catalysts for Late Cenozoic Landscape Change, Fish Lake Plateau, Utah
Bailey Christopher, College of William & Mary Erika Wenrich, College of William & Mary Hanna Bartram, College of William & Mary David Marchetti, Western Colorado State University Scott Harris, College ...

Insights About Polygonal Faults and Related Structures from Extensive Exposures of the Cretaceous Khoman Formation, Western Desert, Egypt
Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College John Hogan, Missouri University of Science and Technology Simon Kattenhorn, University of Idaho Charlotte Mehrtens, University of Vermont Elhamy Tarabees, Damanhour University ...

Prograde and Retrograde Zircon Growth in HP Migmatitic Schist of the Monashee Complex (Canadian Cordillera): Assesment of the Ti-In Zircon Thermometer
Félix Gervais, Polytechnique Montréal Jim Crowley, Boise State University U-Pb ages and trace elements acquired simultaneously on zircon grains from a migmatitic pelitic-schist, collected in the northern part of ...

Quantitative Structural Analysis: Where does it start?
David Pollard, Stanford University Stephen Martel, University of Hawaii We address the question: what approach should one adopt to analyze problems of structural geology from a quantitative point of view? We focus ...

Damaged Goods in the Marmion Tonalites, Superior Province, Ontario: Deformation Fabrics in a Gold-Bearing Damage Zone.
Nils Backeberg, McGill University Christie Rowe, McGill University The Archean Hammond Reef gold deposit in NW Ontario, Canada, is hosted in the Mesoarchean Marmion tonalite gneisses of the south-central Wabigoon ...