Wednesday 8th January
9:30::The significance of the Caledonian Orogeny (sensu stricto) in Britain and Ireland
P. Ryan & J. Soper
9:45::Fault block rotation and strain in transtension
J.F. Dewey
10:00::Sinistral transpression during accretion of the Trinity Peninsula Group of the Antarctic Peninsula and evidence for large tract-bounding faults.
A.P.M. Vaughan, R.A.J. Trouw & J.D. Bradshaw
10:15::Transpressive duplex and flower structure: Dent Fault System, NW England
N. Woodcock and B. Rickards
10:30::Restraining Bends, Flower Structure Coalescence, and Transpressional Duplexing in the Mongolian Altai
D. Cunningham
10:45::Discussion
11:00::Coffee
11:30::Gravitational collapse structures in the Venezuelan Andes revealed by SAR JERS imagery
D. Dhont, G.E Backé, Y. Hervouët
11:45::Drastic syn-collisional kinematic changes in the external Western Alpine arc possibly reflect the gradual development of lateral extrusion.
T. Dumont, C. Authemayou and J-D. Champagnac
12:00::Neogene-Quaternary deformation in the nothern part of the Venezuelan Andes from satellite imagery analysis
G. Backé, D. Dhont, Y. Hervouët
12:15::What drives plate tectonics? Slab pull, ridge push or geomagnetic torque from the CMB? A new look at the old players vis-a-vis an exciting new one.
M.F. Osmaston
12:30::Pliocene-Quaternary reorganisation of the Arabia-Eurasia collision
M. Allen, J. Jackson, E. Blanc, M. Ghassemi & R. Walke
12:45::Discussion
13:00::Lunch
14:00::The rheology of fine-grained psammites deforming in slate belts under low grade metamorphic conditions
I. Kenis, Janos L. Urai, M Sintubin & W. van der Zee
14:15::Electical conductivity of polycrystalline olivine
S. Ten Grotenhuis, C. Spiers & M. Drury
14:30::Influence of the cleavage/bedding angle on magnetic and phyllosilicate fabrics: examples from the Anglo-Brabant belt, Belgium
T.N. Debacker & M Sintubin
14:45::An integrated microstructural and geochemical study of fault and fluid related processes in the Median Tectonic Line, Japan.
S. Jefferies, B. Holdsworth & G. Pearson
15:00::Melt segregation, pervasive melt migration and AMS fabric development from migmatites to crustally-derived granite: Central Vosges
J. B. Edel,
K. Schulmann & Josef Ježek15:15::Discussion
15:30::Tea
16:00::Development of ‘Subgrains’ by Water-Assisted Cataclasis
B. den Brok
16:15::Tracking flow geometry in uniaxial compression of short cylinders of Solnhofen limestone using the microstructure in calcite
S. Llana-Fúnez and E.Rutter
16:30::Microstructural development of rock salt: Observations from in-situ heating experiments
M. Bestmann, S. Piazolo1, C. Spiers, D. Prior& C. Peach
16:45::Deformation mechanisms and P-wave velocity patterns from mylonitic metagabbros deformed at amphibolite and granulite facies conditions
L. Baratoux, K. Schulmann, P. Štípská & A. Tomášková
17:00::Lower Mantle Seismic Anisotropy Generated by Subduction Body Force Stresses Beneath the 660km Phase Transition.
S. Nippress, Nick Kusznir & Michael Kendall
17:15::Emplacement of the Whin Sill – magma flow geometries and mechanisms
D.Liss, D. Hutton & B. Owens
17:30::Relation of dyke intrusion to deformation fields
M. Casey, J. Cann & J. Edwards
17:45::Discussion
18:00::Posters followed by Wine Reception
Thursday 9th January
9:00::Evidence for a critically stressed upper crust
D.J. Sanderson
9:15::Fault density scaling: analysis of power-law systems in two dimensions
T. Manzocchi, J.J. Walsh & W. Bailey
9:30::The Gubbio normal fault and the Colfiorito fault system within the active faults of the Umbria Marche Apennines (Central Italy): a comparison between geological and geophysical data.
F. Mirabella & M.R. Barchi
9:45::Variation in throw-rate histories between initially localised and initially distributed normal fault systems.
G.P. Roberts & I. Papanikolaou
10:00::Distinct Element Modelling of Fault Growth in Multilayer Sequences
M. Schöpfer, C.C. Childs & J.J. Walsh
10:15::Discussion
10:30::Coffee
11:00::Towards the prediction of seismic anisotropy in sedimentary rocks.
S. Valcke
11:15::Predicting deformation around El Asnam, Algeria via forward modelling based on elastic dislocation theory
D. Healy, G. Yielding & N. Kusznir
11:30::Northern North Sea Permo-Triassic Basin Architecture: A new vision
R.A. Hodgkinson, J.R. Underhill, M. Tomasso, N. Banbury & R. Cooper
11:45::Inversion structures in rift basins: real shortening events or products of strain partitioning during transtension?
R.E. Holdsworth, N. de Paola, R.R. Jones, K.McCaffrey & P.Clegg
12:00::New insights into the timing and driving mechanisms of exhumation in the western UK basin system
S.P. Holford , P.F. Green & J.P. Turner
12:15::Scale space topology and natural scales of geological surfaces
S. A. Stewart, P. L. Rosin, G. J. Hay & T. J. Wynn
12:30::Calcite fabric development during the spatial and temporal evolution of a high-strain zone
S.M. Reddy & C. Buchan
12:45::Discussion
13:00::Lunch
14:00::Structural Controls on Leakage from a Carbon Dioxide Reservoir in Southeastern Utah, USA.
B. Dockrill, Z.K. Shipton, & J.P. Evans
14:15::Preliminary results from forward modelling the basement of the PreCaspian and Amadeus Basins give new insights into the generation of ultra deep basins
D. Duggan & Paul Ryan
14:30::A 3-D perspective on the formation of segmented normal fault
C. Childs, W. Bailey, W.R., C. Bonson, A. Nicol & J. Walsh.
14:45::Coeval micro-polygonal faulting and orthogonal jointing in Oligocene Boom Clay (Belgium)
B Dehandschutter, M. Sintubin, N. Vandenberghe., S. Vandycke, P. Gaviglio, L. Wouters & J Mertens
15:00::Characterisation of Natural Fracture Networks by Fluid Flow Modelling: Application of the Parallel Plate Model
R.J. Leckenby, D.J. Sanderson, L. Lonergan
15:15::Discussion
15:30::Tea
16:00::A major tectonic unconformity in the Dalradian of Ireland
D. Hutton & G.I Alsop
16:15::The northern termination of the Ben More and Glencoul Thrusts, Assynt
M. Krabbendam & G. Leslie
16:30::Large-scale recumbent folds in the Gaick "sea of psammite": implications for Caledonian structural architecture in the central Grampian Highlands, Scotland.
G. Leslie & M. Krabbendam
16:45::Strain distribution in the Mam Tor landslip, Derbyshire
E.H. Rutter, C. Arkwright & R.F. Holloway
17:00::Digital Structural Mapping: the end of life as we know it
K.J.W. McCaffrey, R.E. Holdsworth, R.W. Wilson & R.R. Jones
17:15::Discussion
17:30::AGM
18:00::Posters followed by Conference Dinner
Friday 10th January
9:30::Testing alternative hypotheses for the Early Mesozoic evolution of Tethys in Western Turkey
A. Robertson, T. Ustaomer, T. Andrew, A. Collins, E. Pickett & J.E. Dixon
9:45::Development of the Jan Mayen microcontinent by linked propagation and retreat of spreading ridges
R.A. Scott, L.A. Ramsey, S.M. Jones, S. Sinclair & C.S. Pickles
10:00::Structure and evolution of an obliquely sheared continental margin: Rio Muni, West Africa
J. Turner, B. Rosendahl & P. Wilson
10:15::In search of fault(s) responsible for the historical earthquakes at the ancient city of Sagalassos (SW Turkey)
D. Similox-Tohon, M. Sintubin, P. Muchez & M Waelkens
10:30::Significance of multiple decollement in nature and models: Po Plain case (Italy)
D. Massoli , H.A. Koyi, M.R. Barchi & S. Rogledi
10:45::Discussion
11:00::Coffee
11:30::Fold vergence reversal at Rhoscolyn
S. Treagus & J. Treagus
11:45::The geometry and kinematics of sheath folds
G.I. Alsop & R.E. Holdsworth
12:00::Evolution of Interference structures and Successive Sheath Folding during a Single Phase of Ductile Shearing: A Case Study from Basement Rocks in the Northwestern Indian shield
D.C. Srivastava
12:15::Refolding: some structural effects of layer competence contrasts
R.J. Lisle
12:30::Lower Crustal Folding and the Miracle of Exhumation- Insights and Oversights from Norwegian Eclogites
R. Foreman, T.B. Andersen & J. Wheeler
12:45::Discussion
13:00::Lunch
14:00::Fault zone heterogeneity in carbonate successions: field examples from the Maghlaq Fault Zone, SW Malta
C. Bonson, C. Childs & J. Walsh
14:15::Earthquake recurrence intervals on geological timescales
A. Nicol, J. Walsh & T. Manzocchi
14:30::The sound of damage in quartz: a cracking study.
N. Timms, J.M. Reyes Montes, D. Collins, K. Mair & D.J. Prior
14:45::Structure and fluid flow constraints on earthquake slip weakening mechanisms
C.A.J. Wibberley
15:00::Thrust sequences: have we been asking the wrong question?
R. Butler
15:15::Discussion
15:30::Close
15:45::Tea
16:15::Field Trip Introduction Talk