<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As the Fall AGU abstract deadline approaches, please consider submitting to our session. We are interested in presentations using all types of data to constrain plate motions and deforming zones, not only geodetic data.<br><br>G02: Plate Motion and Its Relation to Deforming Zones<br>Sponsor: Geodesy <br><br>Donald F. Argus<br>Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology<br>4800 Oak Grove Drive<br>Pasadena, CA, USA 91109<br>(818) 354 3380<br><a href="mailto:Donald.F.Argus@jpl.nasa.gov">Donald.F.Argus@jpl.nasa.gov</a><br><br>Jeffrey T. Freymueller<br>University of Alaska<br>Fairbanks, AK, USA 99775-7320<br>(907) 474-7286<br><a href="mailto:jeff.freymueller@gi.alaska.edu">jeff.freymueller@gi.alaska.edu</a><br><br>Description: We seek geodetic and geologic studies on plate motion, microplate motion, and their relation to elements in the deforming zones between the plates—faults, slip, great earthquakes, and mountains and rifts generated by active deformation. Important questions relevant to this session include: What fraction of plate motion is being taken up by elastic strain that will be released in earthquakes? What fraction is being taken up by permanent strain that is becoming part of the geologic record? Are deforming belts better described by microplates or by a homogeneous medium? Do estimates of plate motion from magnetic anomalies, transform azimuths, and earthquake slip vectors differ significantly from those from geodetic techniques, such as GPS, VLBI, SLR, and DORIS?<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>