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Poster Presentation: Gordon Rock Deformation Conference
Feeling Salty about Cohesion: Using Halite to Model the Frictional-Viscous Transition
Authors: Jason Ott, Melodie French
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Oral Presentation: AGU 2025 Fall Meeting, Thursday, December 18
Blueschist Rheology from the Laboratory to the Rock Record:
Insights into Ductile Flow at the Subduction Interface
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Matej Pec, Baptiste Journaux, Eirini Poulaki, and Jewel Wass de Czege
Oral Presentation: GSA Connects 2024 Fall Meeting, Wednesday, September 25
Microstructural Evidence of Dislocation Creep and
Diffusion-Accommodated Deformation of Glaucophane
in a Naturally Deformed Lawsonite Blueschist
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Matej Pec, and Baptiste Journaux
Poster Presentation: EGU General Assembly, April 14-19, 2024
Microstructural evidence of dislocation creep and diffusion accommodated
deformation of glaucophane in naturally deformed lawsonite and epidote blueschists
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Matej Pec, Baptiste Journaux
Oral Presentation: GSA 2023 Cordilleran Section Meeting, Friday, May 19
Preliminary Experimental Constraints on the
Rheology of Mafic Blueschists
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Matej Pec, and Angelica Bonanno
Poster Presentation: USGS Subduction Zone Science Workshop, January 10-11, 2023
Seismic Anisotropy of Mafic Blueschists: Constraints from Exhumed
Rock-Record with Implications for the Subduction Interface
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Rachel Bernard, Vera Schulte-Pelkum, Matej Pec
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7530437
Oral Presentation: AGU 2022 Fall Meeting, Monday, December 12
Experimental constraints on the strength and deformation
mechanisms of glaucophane at subduction zone conditions
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Matej Pec, and Angelica Bonanno
Poster Presentation: GRC Rock Deformation Conference, August 6-12, 2022
Experimental constraints on the strength and deformation
mechanisms of glaucophane at subduction zone conditions
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, Matej Pec, and Angelica Bonanno
Poster Presentation: AGU 2021 Fall Meeting, Thursday, December 16, 4-6 p.m.
Seismic anisotropy of mafic blueschists: constraints from exhumed glaucophane-
rich blueschists with implications for the subduction interface
Authors: Jason Ott, Cailey Condit, and Vera Schulte-Pelkum
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