J. Casey Moore Symposium - 11-12 April 2008

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Registration

Registration forms should be filled out and mailed to Brittainy Ward, Mail Stop EPS, The Univeristy of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.

REGISTRATION CLOSES ON MARCH 10, 2008

Tentative Itinerary

*Friday, 11 April, 2008*
	11:00	Registration and Lunch	Located at the UCSC Arboretum
	12:00	Welcome and Introductory Remarks	Organizing committee
	12:10	Inside Fault Processes	Kohtaro Ujiie: Frictional melting and fluidization recorded ancient accretionary complexes and their implications for dynamic weakness of faults during subduction earthquakes Akito Tsutsumi: High-velocity frictional properties of rocks Harold Tobin: Drilling the Megathrust: NanTroSEIZE Initial Results and Future Plans David Kirschner: The Agony and Ecstasy of the SAFOD drilling project
	14:10	Refreshments
	14:25	Fluids and Deformation	Kevin Brown: New insights into earthquake processes: Field and experimental observations Dan Orange: Seep science and tectonic hydrogeology applied to oil and gas exploration in Indonesia's frontier basins Rick Sibson:Compressional inversion in the seismogenic crust of Honshu, Japan - the case for fluid-driven faulting Demian Saffer:
	16:45	Career Panel	Located in Earth and Marine Sciences Building
	17:30	Poster Presentations with Refreshments
*Saturday 12 April, 2008*
	08:00	Continental Breakfast	Located at the UCSC Arboretum
	08:30	Linking Structure and Process	Greg Moore: Partitioning of slip between the decollement and splay faults in the NanTroSEIZE transect Sarah Roeske: Effects of triple junction(s?) on the Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic northern Cordillera margin Gaku Kimura: Geology of a seismogenic splay fault Tim Byrne: From Accretion to Exhumation
	10:15	Refreshments
	10:30	Time & Space	Tim Dixon: Subduction zone geodesy: Some new insights relating short and long term deformation Kelin Wang: Thermal models of subduction zones Mike Underwood: Sedimentary evolution of subduction margins Peter Vrolijk: A Santa Cruz perspective on faults and fluids and the pursuit of oil and gas
	12:15	FIELD TRIP: A Visit to Coastal Melange Exposures in the Classic Franciscan Complex of Linda Mar (Pacifica), California with Dr. John Wakabayashi, CSU Fresno
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	12:15	Free Afternoon
	17:30	BBQ and Entertainment

Field Trip: A Visit to Coastal Melange Exposures in the Classic Franciscan Complex of Linda Mar (Pacifica), California

John Wakabayashi, CSU Fresno

Overview

We will visit good sea cliff exposures of Franciscan Complex melange at Linda Mar (Pacifica), a few kilometers south of San Francisco. Many consider the Francsican Complex the world's type subduction complex. It certainly records an extended record of subduction, having formed over the course of over 140 million years of continuous subduction. The Franciscan consists primarily of offscraped and underplated trench sediments, now sandstones and shales, with a smaller amount of volcanic and pelagic sedimentary rocks. The clastic sedimentary rocks were deposited shortly before incorporation into the accretionary complex, whereas the pelagic sediments and most of the volcanic rocks were far-traveled passengers on the down-going plate.

The Franciscan consists of both coherent units and block-in-matrix melanges, with the proportion between the two varying spatially. The coherent terranes are nappes up to several kilometers thick and are separated from each other by low-angle melange zones that an also reach several kilometers in thickness. The coherent terranes themselves are internally imbricated, and the individual thrust faults between imbricates range from a few centimeters in thickness to melange zones hundreds of meters thick.

The exposure at Pacifica is an example of an intra-terrane melange zone within the Permanente terrane of the Franciscan. The Permanente terrane consists of a significant amount of basalt, with clastic rocks, limestone and chert. The shear zone we will visit is structurally low within the Permanente terrane, and consists of a sheared shale matrix with blocks of sandstone, metabasalt, and very rare amphibolite/blueschist. Incipient growth of blueschist facies minerals has been reported from the coherent basalts, but prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism is more commonly observed. Much of the deformation we observe in the outcrop probably occurred at a depth of over 15 kilometers in the subduction complex.

The hour + drive north to the field site includes breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean, passing through protected coastal agricultural trust land as well as areas of native coastal chaperal vegetation.

Logistics

The field trip will depart by bus from the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum at 12:30pm on Saturday, April 12th and return between 16:00-16:30pm. Box lunches including drinks are included in the field trip registration fee.

Spots on the bus are limited to the first ~56 registrants for the field trip. A field trip fee of $25/person will be charged and should be included with the Symposium registration.

Accommodation in Santa Cruz

Registrants are responsible for their own accommodations while in Santa Cruz. UC Santa Cruz has contracted rates with several hotels in the area. A list of these hotels can be obtained here.

Travelling to Santa Cruz

By Air

The nearest airport to Santa Cruz is the San Jose International Airport (SJC). We would highly recommend flying into San Jose, which is approximately 35-45 minutes from Santa Cruz. You may also fly into the San Francisco Airport, (SFO) which is approximately 1 1/2 hours from Santa Cruz or the Oakland Airport (OAK) which is approximately 2 hours from Santa Cruz.

You will need to plan transportation to and from the airport in advance. If you are not renting a car, there are several shuttle services available. These four are suggested (reservations required):

Santa Cruz Airporter. (831) 475-0234, Fax: (831) 477-7002. Cost from SJC to Santa Cruz is $40 each way or $70 round trip (for SFO, add $15 for the connecting Monterey Air Bus). Schedule: Every 2 hours, call them for specifics.

Early Bird Shuttle. (831) 462-3933, Fax: (831) 462-6946. Cost from SCJ to Santa Cruz is $87.60 each way, or from SFO to Santa Cruz is $132.00 each way. They will pick you up and drop you off at anytime, call to make arrangements.

ABC Sedans & Limousines. (831) 477-0170, Fax: (831) 477-0668. Cost from SJC to Santa Cruz is $83 each way, or from SFO to Santa Cruz is $127 each way

Abacus Shuttle/Limo (aka Club Limousine). (831) 469-3333, Fax: (831) 464-3904. Cost from SJC to Santa Cruz is $78.25 each way, or from SFO to Santa Cruz is $119.25 each way. The driver will pick you up in the baggage claim area at the airport and drive you door-to-door in a private car.

Driving directions

Friday and Saturday Science Sessions will be held at the UCSC Arboretum which has free parking. Saturday afternoon's Career Panel, Poster Session and Refreshments will be held in the Atrium of the Earth and Marine Sciences Building. Parking permits will be required to park on campus and can be purchased at the kiosks at the entrances to the campus. However, metered parking is also available in the campus Parking Garage. See maps below for locations of the Arboretum, Earth and Marine Sciences Building and Parking lots and garage.

Campus Maps

The city of Santa Cruz is accessed from the northwest and southeast by Hwy 1 and from the north (and most Bay Area locations) by Hwy 17.

If approaching from Hwy 17 (southbound):

Highway goes over Santa Cruz mountains. Just outside town (~27 miles from San Jose), take right fork to Hwy 1 North / Mission Ave. Exit right toward River St./ Mission St. exit. Go straight through light at River St. At second light, go right on Mission St./ Hwy 1. Take immediate right on Highland Ave. At end of Highland, turn left on High St. One mile up High St. you will see the university main entrance on your right.

Directions to the UCSC Arboretum