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

Wednesday, 10 May 2006
1:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:20 PM
  CHULITNA: SPACE ALIEN OR NOT?
  Karen H. Clautice, Fairbanks, AK and Rainer J. Newberry, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
  104648 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  NEW DATA ON THE LATE PALEOZOIC OF THE ALEXANDER TERRANE AND WRANGELLIA
  Erik Cowing Katvala, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  104438 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF UPPER TRIASSIC SCLERACTINIAN CORALS FROM WRANGELLIA AND THE ALEXANDER TERRANE (ALASKA AND VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA)
  Andrew H. Caruthers, The University of Montana Paleontology Center, Missoula, MT and George D. Stanley, The University of Montana Paleontology Center, Missoula, MT
  104426 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  TRIASSIC VOLCANISM AND MAGMATISM IN THE EASTERN ALASKA RANGE, ALASKA - THE MISSING LINK IN WRANGELLIA
  Larry John Hulbert, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON and Bill Stone, Nevada Star Resource Corp, Vancouver, BC and William T. Ellis, Alaska Earth Sciences, Anchorage, AK and Bill Davis, Geol Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  103818 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:40 PM
  GEOLOGIC MAPPING OF THE LAKE CLARK QUADRANGLE, ALASKA, AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE TLIKAKILA COMPLEX AND THE PALEOGENE MAGMATIC HISTORY OF THE REGION
  Cheryl Foley, New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM and Jeffrey Amato, New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM and Matthew Bogar, New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM and Matthew Heizler, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Rscs, Socorro, NM and Richard P. Esser, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Rscs, Socorro, NM and George Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  104443 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  FOREARC-BASIN FACIES DEVELOPMENT IN THE TALKEETNA FORMATION, SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS FOR LOWER JURASSIC TERRANE RECONSTRUCTION
  Amy Draut, University of California, Santa Cruz / US Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA and Peter D. Clift, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Peter Kelemen, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
  101647 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  REGIONAL UPPER TRIASSIC-CRETACEOUS STRATIGRAPHY ALONG THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF WRANGELLIA, SOUTHERN ALASKA: IMPLICATIONS FOR A SHARED HISTORY OF BASIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE ALASKA RANGE SUTURE ZONE
  Brian A. Hampton, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Kenneth Ridgway, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and J. Michael O'Neill, USGS, Denver, CO and George E. Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  104531 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:00 PM
  CRETACEOUS TIME-TRANSGRESSIVE OBLIQUE ISLAND-ARC COLLISION IN SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA: STRATIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FROM THE KAHILTNA ASSEMBLAGE AND KUSKOKWIM GROUP
  James L. Kalbas, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and Kenneth D. Ridgway, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and George E. Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  104519 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:20 PM
  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ISLAND ARC: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE KODIAK AND THE TONSINA-NELCHINA TALKEETNA ARC CRUSTAL SECTIONS
  David W. Farris, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, N/A
  104542 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:40 PM
  IS THE WINDY-MCKINLEY TERRANE A DISPLACED FRAGMENT OF WRANGELLIA? EVIDENCE FROM NEW GEOLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES IN WESTERN YUKON
  James K. Mortensen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Steve Israel, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT
  104472 (THEME SESSIONS)