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GSA CONNECTS 2021
Topical Sessions

TECTONICS/TECTONOPHYSICS from all relevant disciplines, studying structure and processes at
all depths and of all ages.
T1. Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes:
Geologic, Geophysical, and Modeling Constraints T4. Feedbacks between Upper-Plate Deformation
on Rupture Timing and Process and Plate Boundary Processes in Subduction Systems
Endorsers: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; Endorsers: GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division;
GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA Marine and Coastal Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Geomorphology,
Geoscience Division; GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Geophysics/Geodynamics
Division Advocates: Christine Regalla; Kirsty Mckenzie; Kristin Morell
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Marine/Coastal Science, This session focuses on geologic, geomorphic, and geodynamic
Geophysics/Geodynamics processes of strain accumulation and topographic growth in sub-
Advocates: Lydia Staisch; Chris Goldfinger; Nora Nieminski; duction forearcs, and their relationships to the subduction plate
Maureen Walton; Sean Richard LaHusen boundary interface.
For this session, we solicit a diverse range of research presenta-
tions on the Cascadia megathrust earthquake chronology and vari- T5. Geologic and Geomorphic Evolution of the
ability in rupture parameters. Columbia River Basin
Endorsers: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division;
T2. Cenozoic Tectonism, Magmatism, Sedimentation, GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA
and Landscape Evolution in the Intermountain West Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division
Endorsers: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Volcanology, Quaternary
Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geochronology Division; Geology
GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Advocates: Lydia Staisch; Scott Bennett; Jim E. O’Connor
Division; Geochemical Society The Columbia River system uniquely drains to an active conver-
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Structural Geology, gent margin, energetically interacting with volcanic, tectonic, and
Stratigraphy anthropogenic processes. We welcome contributions broadly explor-
Advocates: Theresa M. Schwartz; Amy K. Gilmer; ing the geologic and geomorphic record of the river and its basin.
Jens-Erik Lund Snee
We welcome abstracts focused on the Cenozoic tectonic, mag- T6. Hot Rocks: High-Temperature Microstructures
matic, sedimentary, and landscape evolution of the Intermountain from Mantle to Surface
West. Studies using a broad range of methods to investigate events Endorsers: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division;
on any time scale are welcome. GSA Geochronology Division; GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics
Division
T3. Evolution, Structure, and Landscapes of the Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics
North Atlantic–Arctic Realm Advocates: Morgan Monz; Hannah Blatchford; Zachary D. Michels
Endorsers: GSA Geophysics and Geodynamics Division; GSA This session highlights research on high-homologous-temperature
Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division; GSA Marine microstructures, with diverse applications including reconstructing
and Coastal Geoscience Division; GSA Geoinformatics and Data lithospheric viscous flow, glacier and ice sheet dynamics, and
Science Division; GSA Geochronology Division recrystallization of mineral chronometers. We seek contributions
Disciplines: Tectonics/Tectonophysics, Geophysics/Geodynamics, based on field, experimental, and modeling approaches.
Geomorphology
Advocates: Christian Schiffer; Jane Lund Andersen; Pauline T7. Initiation and Evolution of Arc-Forearc Systems
Jeanneret; Scott Jess; Alexander Peace in Cascadia and Beyond
In this session, we will review our knowledge of the solid-Earth Endorsers: GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division;
system in the North Atlantic realm. We welcome contributions GSA Sedimentary Geology Division; GSA Geophysics and

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