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 Ježek

15:15::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