PROGRAM:


(all events by pre-registration; timings subject to change):

Saturday: Geology Corner (for location see below)
0730 Registration; coffee
0820 Welcome; Introduction
0840 Session 1 The big picture Chair: Gary Ernst
• Walter Mooney "Geophysical framework of western North America: a synthesis"
• Eldridge Moores "Crustal-scale cross-section of the U.S. Cordillera, California and beyond, and its tectonic significance"
• Bill Dickinson "The Basin and Range Province as a composite extensional domain"
  1015 refreshment break
  1045 Session 2 Geologic overview Chair: Bob Christiansen
• Tanya Atwater "Plate tectonic, lithospheric, and geological constraints on the Laramide orogeny and its aftermath"
• Gene Humphreys "How Laramide-age hydration of North America lithosphere by the Farallon slab controlled subsequent activity in the western U.S."
• Roberta Rudnick "Osmium isotope constraints on the tectonic evolution of lithosphere in southwestern United States"
  1210 Lunch and posters
  1320 SESSION 3 Hot spots and mantle Chair: Bill Ellsworth
• Don Anderson "What is a Plate? "
• Bob Smith "What's Moving the Basin-Range: hotspots, earthquakes and lithosphere"
• Martha Savage "Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation in the western U.S. and southwestern Canada"
• Karl Fuchs "Global significance of a sub-Moho boundary layer deduced from high-resolution seismic observations"
  1525 refreshment break
  1555 SESSION 4 Deformation models Chair: Craig Jarchow
• Norm Sleep "Self organization of tectonics"
• James Jackson "Faulting, flow and the strength of the continental lithosphere"
• Mark Zoback "Force-limited lithospheric deformation: Constraints imposed by crustal strength and lithospheric rheology"
  
  Saturday evening: Tresidder Union (for location see below)
  1900 Dinner in honor of George Thompson (wine will be served from 1830)
  
  Sunday: Geology Corner(for location see below)
  0730 Coffee
  0830 SESSION 5 California and strike-slip Chair: Rob Wesson
• John Dewey "Transtension in arcs and orogens"
• Paul Segall "Integration of geologic and geodetic estimates of fault slip rates on the San Andreas system"
• Kevin Furlong "The Mendocino Crustal Conveyor: making and breaking the California Crust"
• Amos Nur "Crustal deformation by material and stress rotation"
  1035 refreshment break
  1105 SESSION 6 Extension and geodesy Chair: David James
• Roger Buck "Comparison of simple (analytic) and complex (numerical) models of Basin and Range extension"
• Wayne Thatcher "Is present-day continental deformation largely plate-like? If so, why?"
• Brian Wernicke "Spectral character of earth deformation at periods of ten to ten million years"
  1240 Lunch and posters
  1340 SESSION 7 Core complexes and rift styles Chair: Jill McCarthy
• Tom Parsons "Contrasting crustal response to extreme extension in the Basin and Range Province"
• Elizabeth Miller "Metamorphic core complexes in the Basin and Range: origin, significance and role in crustal extension"
• Barbara John "Core Complexes: Insights from both the continents and oceans"
• Steven Holbrook "Volcanic and non-volcanic rifted continental margins: strength, magmatism, and the role of the 7.x km/s layer"
  1545 Refreshment break
  1615 SESSION 8 Uplift Chair: Simon Klemperer
• George Zandt "New perspectives from the Central Andes on the evolution of the lithosphere of western North America"
• Clem Chase "Colorado Plateau: Geoid and invisible means of support"
• Mary Lou Zoback "The role of lithosphere buoyancy in Western U.S. deformation"
  
  Poster presentations (Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, all day Saturday and Sunday)
  
• Walter Mooney "Geophysical framework of western North America: a synthesis"
• Goetz Bokelmann "Constraints on Plate-Tectonic Driving Forces from Seismic Anisotropy"
• Derek Schutt "New and Anomalous Western U.S. SKS Splitting Measurements"
• Shige Maruyama "New Interpretation of Tectonic Evolution of Western North America since 700 Ma; the Role of Mantle Upwelling"
• David Snyder "LITHOPROBE's SNORCLE Seismic Reflection Profiles add new insights into our understanding of the North American Cordillera"
• Ken Dueker "Thick structured Proterozoic lithosphere of the Rocky Mountain region"
• Karl Karlstrom "Proterozoic lithosphere of the southwestern U.S.A.: block architecture, long-term fertility, and 200-km-thick compositional tectosphere"
• Philip Wannamaker "Thermal State and Structure of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau Inferred from Electrical Resistivity"
• John Booker "The Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina: active analogue of the Laramide Orogeny"
• Raymond Ingersoll "Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Rio Grande Rift, northern New Mexico and southern Colorado "
• Erin Campbell-Stone "Temporal changes in deformation mode: from failure to flow in the Colorado River extensional corridor"
• Ritske Huismans "Controls on the asymmetry of lithosphere extension: the role of frictional-plastic strain softening"
• Ying Zhou "Crustal Structure from Teleseismic Converted Phases Observed at a Short-Period Array in the Panamint Range, California"
• Charlie Wilson "A single-chamber silicic magma system inferred from shear-wave discontinuities of the crust and uppermost mantle, Coso Geothermal Area, California "
• Tom Parsons "A simple algorithm for sequentially incorporating Bouguer gravity to enhance seismic traveltime tomography: Application to the upper crustal structure in Puget Lowland, Washington"
• Ron Clowes "Comparison of lithospheric structures across the Alaskan and Candian Cordillera: a tale of subduction accretion and collision"
• William C. Hammond "Western U. S. Deformation and Dynamics"
• Donald Argus "Present Tectonic Motion across the Coast Ranges and San Andreas Fault System in Central California (with Implications for a Late Miocene Change in the Motion of the Sierran Microplate relative to North America)"
• James Lemaux "Location of the Nubia-Somalia boundary along the Southwest Indian Ridge (with implications for the estimated motion between the Pacific and North American plates)"
  
  
  Speakers have agreed to contribute the paper based on their talk to the "Thompson Volume", to be published and distributed jointly by the GSA and Bellwether Publishing.
  In order to allow each speaker sufficient time, and to allow time for discussion, all presentations are by invitation only.
  
  Because the number of talks is limited, we will provide facilities for display of posters in and around the lunch area. Poster boards will be made available on a first-requested, first-allocated basis, and are 4ft*8ft, either vertical or horizontal (your choice). Posters may either address "The Lithosphere of Western North America, and its Geophysical Characterization", or other career contributions of George Thompson. Contact Simon Klemperer if you wish to contribute a poster.
  

• All interested scientists are welcome to attend the talks, especially friends, colleagues and former students of George Thompson.
  In order to ensure seating for all, and catering for all, attendance is by pre-registration only.
• Two breakfast snacks, two lunches, four coffee-breaks and abstracts cost $40 per person, payable by personal check to "Department of Geophysics".
  Students may pre-register at the reduced rate of $30.
• There are a few remaining seats available at the symposium banquet to honor George Thompson on the evening of Saturday December 8th, cost $30. (We will certainly endeavour to accommodate all George Thompson's former students and colleagues - please help us by telling us your degree and class.)
• To pre-register, e-mail Simon Klemperer sklemp@stanford.edu
  State whether you only wish to attend the day sessions, or whether you would also like to attend the symposium banquet if seating is available. (If you wish to attend the banquet, please state if you prefer a vegetarian option.)
  Provide your name and affiliation (for name-tag). State if you are requesting the student rate.

  Checks for the appropriate amount, payable to "Department of Geophysics", should be mailed in advance to Simon Klemperer at:
  Department of Geophysics,
  Mitchell Building MC 2215,
  Stanford University,
  Stanford, CA 94305-2215



• Participation of Stanford faculty, staff and students will be subsidized by the School of Earth Sciences, but your pre-registration is still required.
  The Stanford cost for two lunches, four coffee-breaks and abstracts will be $10 per person, and attendance at the symposium banquet (if tickets are available) will be $20 per person, payable by personal check to "Department of Geophysics".

• The symposium is being organized to celebrate the career contributions of George Thompson , on Saturday - Sunday, December 8th - 9th 2001 at Stanford University, immediately prior to the Fall AGU meeting (December 10-14, 2001).
• Scientific talks at Stanford will be held in the School of Earth Sciences Geology Corner (Bldg 320, room 105) , with breakfast and refreshments next door in room 109 and posters and lunch in the neighboring Mitchell Building at the Hartley Conference Center . Dinner will be 200 m south-southeast in the Oak Room on the second floor of Tresidder Union
• If you are driving, and wish to park on campus, we recommend printing out one of the following maps to help you locate either "Tresidder Parking" 200 m south-southeast of the conference auditorium, or "Parking Structure 2" 200 m west-northwest of the conference auditorium. Parking is free on weekends.
• Sessions will run from about 8:00 am to about 5:30 pm both Saturday and Sunday.
• Here are four nearby motels:
  
  Oak Motel
  4279 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306 (Tel: 650-493-6644)
  $69 + tax - one king-size bed for either one or two persons
  $85 + tax - two king-size beds for two persons
  If you are driving, this motel is south of Oregon Ave on El Camino Real.
  
  Sky-Ranch Inn
  4234 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306 (Tel: 650-493-7221; Fax: 650-493-0858)
  $75 + tax - one king-size bed for one person
  $85 + tax - one king-size bed for two persons
  $95 + tax - two king-size beds for two persons
  If you are driving, this motel is south of Oregon Ave on El Camino Real.
  
  Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn Motel)
  625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306 (Tel: 650-328-2800)
  $139-$209 + tax - one king-size or two doubles for one or two persons
  If you are driving, this motel is at University Ave on El Camino Real.
  
  Menlo Park Inn
  1315 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94062 (Tel: 650-326-7530)
  $115 + tax one person; $125 + tax two people; in queen- or king-size beds.
  If you are driving, this motel is north of University Ave on El Camino Real.
  

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