GSA Eastern California Shear Zone Field Trip

Dear all (apologies for cross-postings),

I would like to make you aware of an upcoming field trip being offered as part of the joint 2008 Geological Society of America Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain Section meeting:

"Active Tectonics of the Eastern California Shear Zone"

Dates: March 16th - 18th, 2008

Location: Begin and end in Las Vegas, NV (GSA meeting site)

Trip Description: The eastern California shear zone plays an important role in accommodating Pacific-North America plate boundary deformation east of the San Andreas fault. This field trip will highlight recent research on fault slip rates and displacement histories in this region. Trip participants will examine late Pleistocene fault slip rate sites along the Lenwood fault in the Mojave Desert, evidence for temporal variations in fault slip rates along the Garlock fault, recent deformation in the Coso Range, total dextral displacement across Owens Valley, and late Pleistocene spatial and temporal variations in slip rate along the Owens Valley and northern Death Valley-Fish Lake Valley fault zones. Trip includes two breakfasts, three lunches, one dinner, snacks, two nights' accommodation, transportation during trip, and a guidebook.

Trip Leaders: Kurt Frankel, Allen Glazner, Eric Kirby, Francis Monastero, Michael Strane, Michael Oskin, Jeffrey Unruh, and Douglas Walker

For more information please contact Kurt Frankel (kfrankel@gatech.edu) or visit:

http://www.geosociety.org/sectdiv/cord/08mtg/fieldTrips.htm

We look forward to seeing you in March!

-Kurt Frankel (on behalf of the trip leaders)

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Kurt L. Frankel
Assistant Professor
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
311 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0340

phone: (404) 894-4008
fax: (404) 894-5638
e-mail: kurt.frankel@eas.gatech.edu
web: http://shadow.eas.gatech.edu/~kfrankel