Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a special session "Advances in
understanding fault mechanics: beyond Mohr-Coulomb (T130)" to be held at
this year's Geological Society of America Annual meeting (Nov. 2-5,2003,
in Seattle, USA). I encourage you to participate in this session and to
share your research findings and ideas about how best to advance our
understanding of fault mechanics. The abstract deadline is midnight, July
15 (Pacific Standard Time). For more information and to submit an
abstract, please visit:
http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2003/tAbstracts.htm
Session description:
In the more-than-half century since publication of E.M. Andersons
"Dynamics of Faulting," many other approaches to faulting have been
proposed, but few are as widely accepted or taught. The goal of this
session is to review and advance alternative or supplemental theories for
understanding how faults work. Problems that are not adequately addressed
by Andersonian theory include: fault initiation, oblique slip, low-angle
faulting and the evolution of fault zones. Strain-energy density,
premonitory shear zones, rate-and-state-dependent friction, energy balance
and strength-of-materials approaches have received much more limited
attention, despite successful field application. The session will
highlight successful field and laboratory application of alternative
theories and generate discussion (or debate!) about how to advance our
understanding of fault mechanics.
If you have any questions about the session or abstract submission
process, do not hesitate to contact me ([log in to unmask]). And, of
course, please share this announcement with students and colleagues who
might be interested. I look forward to seeing you in Seattle!
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Juliet G. Crider
Assistant Professor
Department of Geology
Western Washington University
516 High Street, MS 9080
Bellingham, WA 98225
phone: 360-650-3589
__fax: 360-650-7302
email: [log in to unmask]
__web: www.wwu.edu/~criderj
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