Conference Program
 
ROCK DEFORMATION

August 8-13, 2004
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA

Chair:
Andreas Kronenberg

Vice Chair:
Mark W. Jessell

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SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmRHEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE LITHOSPHERE AND WATER WEAKENING
Discussion Leader: Brian Evans (MIT)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmGreg Hirth (Woods Hole)
"Water and the Oceanic Lithosphere"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmJames Jackson (Cambridge)
"Water and Structure of Continental Lithosphere"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:45 amPhoto Session
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSURFACE HYDRATION, FLUID FILMS, SOLUTE TRANSPORT AND DEFORMATION
Discussion Leader: Chris Spiers (Utrecht)
9:00 am - 9:45 amJ. Thomas Dickinson (Washington State)
"Fracture and Frictional Wear in Vacuum and Corrosive Environments"
9:45 am - 10:30 amJacob Israelachvili (UC Santa Barbara)
"The Fluid-Crystal Interface and Character of Thin Fluid Films"
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 amSusan Brantley (Penn State)
"Mineral-Fluid Interface and Kinetics of Dissolution and Precipitation"
11:45 am - 12:30 pmFrancois Renard (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
"Diffusive Mass Transport and Creep in Porous Rocks"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmInformal Discussion and Poster Session Preparation
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPOSTER SESSION: THE SOURCES. DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTER OF FLUIDS, FLUID TRANSPORT, AND HYDROUS DEFECTS
Poster Coordinator: Mark Jessell (Universite Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse)
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmFLUIDS AND DEFORMATION AT COLLISIONAL BOUNDARIES
Discussion Leader: Jane Selverstone (University New Mexico)
9:00 am - 9:45 amJ. Casey Moore (UC Santa Cruz)
"Fluid Pathways and Slip on Decollements of Accretionary Prisms"
9:45 am - 10:30 amDon Fisher (Penn State)
"Deformation and Crack Sealing in Collisional Environments"
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 amBrad Hacker (UC Santa Barbara)
"Hydrous Phases and Deformation in Subduction Zones"
11:45 am - 12:30 pmSimon Peacock (Arizona State)
"Dehydration and Seismicity of Subducting Lithosphere"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmInformal Discussion
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFLUIDS, DIAGENESIS AND DEFORMATION OF SEDIMENTS
Discussion Leader: Dave Olgaard (Exxon-Mobil)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmLori Summa (Exxon-Mobil)
"Scales of Fluid Flow and Diagenesis in Sedimentary Basins"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmBrandon Dugan (USGS Woods Hole, Rice University)
"Overpressure, Deformation of Marine Sediments and Slope Failure"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmFLUIDS AND DEFORMATION IN FAULT ZONES
Discussion Leader: Jean-Pierre Gratier (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble)
9:00 am - 9:45 amDavid Lockner (USGS, Menlo Park)
"Fluid Pressures and Transport in Active Fault Zones"
9:45 am - 10:30 amJames Rice (Harvard)
"Heating, Weakening and Melting of Wet Fault Gouge during Earthquake Slip"
10:30 amCoffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 amBob Wintsch (Indiana University)
"Sources of Fluids and Controls on Mineral Growth and Dissolution of Minerals"
11:45 am - 12:30 pmJohn Farver (Bowling Green State University)
"Diffusion, Isotopic Exchange, and Creep of Mylonites"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmInformal Discussion and Poster Session Preparation
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPOSTER SESSION: THE COUPLING OF FLUIDS WITH FRACTURE, FRICTION AND FLOW OF ROCKS
Poster Coordinator: Mark Jessell (Universite Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse)
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmWATER WEAKENING AND CREEP IN THE MIDDLE TO LOWER CRUST
Discussion Leader: Georg Dresen (GFZ Potsdam)
9:00 am - 10:00 amJan Tullis (Brown University)
"Water Weakening of Crustal Silicates"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amMalcolm Heggie (University Sussex)
"Models of Dislocations and Water Defects in Crystalline Solids"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmSatoru Nakashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Distributions of Water in Metamorphosed and Deformed Rocks and Thin Films at Grain Boundaries"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmInformal Discussion
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmWATER WEAKENING AND CREEP IN THE MANTLE
Discussion Leader: David Kohlstedt (University Minnesota)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJannick Ingrin (LMTG Toulouse)
"The Hydrous Component and Deformation of the Upper Mantle and Transition Zone"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmShun Karato (Yale)
"Whole Mantle Convection and the Hydrous Component"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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