21 New Models of Appalachian Tectonics Inspired by Geochronology: 3rd Annual NETectonics Session II

Tuesday, 15 March 2005
1:00 PM - 3:40 PM

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  TEMPERATURE-TIME DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEPAWAUG SCHIST
  Penelope J. Lancaster, Boston Univ, Boston, MA and Ethan F. Baxter, Boston Univ, Boston, MA and Jay J. Ague, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  82511 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:20 PM
  TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF ELECTRON MICROPROBE MONAZITE AGES OF 525-535, 500-510, AND ≈475 MA FROM THE WATERBURY DOME, SOUTHWESTERN NEW ENGLAND
  C. Dietsch, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Michael Jercinovic, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
  83352 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  DIVIDING THE WISSAHICKON FORMATION IN THE PENNSYLVANIA-DELAWARE PIEDMONT - A PROGRESS REPORT
  Gale C. Blackmer, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, Middletown, PA and Howell Bosbyshell, West Chester Univ, West Chester, PA and Margaret O. Plank, Delaware Geol Survey, Newark, DE and W.S. Schenck, Delaware Geol Survey, Newark, DE and C. Gil Wiswall, West Chester Univ, West Chester, PA and LeeAnn Srogi, West Chester Univ, West Chester, PA
  82590 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  A SILURIAN AGE FOR THE SPRINGFIELD GRANODIORITE: TECTONIC AND METAMORPHIC IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN PIEDMONT
  Howell Bosbyshell, West Chester Univ, West Chester, PA and John Aleinikoff, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Gale C. Blackmer, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, Middletown, PA
  83024 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  PROVENANCE OF POLYMICTIC CONGLOMERATES IN THE CATSKILL-POCONO CLASTIC WEDGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INNER PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS AND DEVONIAN-MISSISSIPPIAN COLLISIONAL TECTONICS IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS
  Allen J. Dennis, University of South Carolina Aiken, Aiken, N/A
  83499 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:00 PM
  OVERVIEW OF TACONIAN TECTONISN IN THE SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE - STILL THE SAME, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
  David P. Moecher, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  83211 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  VALUE OF MODERN GEOCHRONOLOGY IN UNDERSTANDING SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN ACCRETIONARY HISTORY
  Robert D. Hatcher, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Brendan R. Bream, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and Calvin F. Miller, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and Russell W. Mapes, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Paul D. Fullagar, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Charles W. Carrigan, Olivet Nazarene Univ, Bourbonnais, IL
  82908 (THEME SESSIONS)