33 GSA: Accreted Terranes of Western North America: An Update on Current Research on the Construction of the Cordillera II

Wednesday, 10 May 2006
8:20 AM - 11:20 AM

Presentations

• 8:20 AM
  REASSEMBALING THE NUTZOTIN-DEZADEASH BASIN: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE DEZADEASH FORMATION, YUKON, AND IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING THE ACCRETIONARY HISTORY OF THE WRANGELLIA COMPOSITE TERRANE
  Grant William Lowey, Whitehorse, YT
  104175 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  CRUSTAL EVOLUTION AS SEEN IN A TRANSECT ACROSS ALASKA, FROM PACIFIC TO ARCTIC MARGINS
  Gary Fuis, La Honda, CA and George Plafker, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Thomas Moore, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Bruce C. Beaudoin, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM and Thomas M. Brocher, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Nikolas I. Christensen, Univ Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI and Michael A. Fisher, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Alan R. Levander, Rice University, Houston, TX and Warren J. Nokleberg, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Robert A. Page, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  103929 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  TWO MODES OF TERRANE ACCRETION IN THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA REVEALED BY LITHOPROBE SEISMIC SURVEYING
  Arie J. van der Velden, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Frederick A. Cook, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  104371 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  THE FIRST RECORD OF DINOSAURIA AND FOSSIL AVES FROM THE LOWER CANTWELL FORMATION (LATEST CRETACEOUS), DENALI NATIONAL PARK
  Anthony R. Fiorillo, Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas, TX and Paul J. McCarthy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Brent H. Breithaupt, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  104374 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:00 AM
  LATE TRIASSIC GASTROPOD FAUNAS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA - A USEFUL TOOL IN TERRANE ANALYSIS
  Robert B. Blodgett, U.S. Geological Survey - Contractor, Anchorage, AK and Jiri Fryda, N/A and George D. Stanley, The University of Montana Paleontology Center, Missoula, MT
  104525 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  COLLISION OF THE OLYUTORSKY TERRANE, KAMCHATKA
  John Garver, Union College Department of Geology- Olin Bldg, Schenectady, NY and Alex Soloviev, Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, N/A and Mark T. Brandon, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  104581 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  INTERMONTANE AND INSULAR SUPERTERRANES: SEPARATED BY AN OCEAN BASIN FROM LATEST TRIASSIC TO LATE CRETACEOUS TIME
  Stephen T. Johnston, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC and Dante Canil, Victoria, BC and Larry Heaman, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  104363 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  MAJOR TECTONIC PROCESSES ILLUSTRATED IN A PHANEROZOIC MODEL FOR ALASKA AND THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA
  Warren J. Nokleberg, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Christopher R. Scotese, U. Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX and James W.H. Monger, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC
  104170 (THEME SESSIONS)