T201 Evolution of Appalachian-Ouachita Salients and Recesses from Reentrants [Embayments] and Promontories in the Continental Margin I: Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration of Advances Derived from Bill Thomas’ 1977 American Journal of Science Paper

Wednesday, 31 October 2007
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:10 AM
  ORDOVICIAN CANYONS, SHALES, AND THE DEFORMATION OF THE APPALACHIAN CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN CARBONATE SHELF MARGIN
  Paul A. Washington, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA and Steven A. Chisick, Richton Park, IL
  125838 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURVED SEGMENTS OF THE US APPALACHIANS: A COMPARISON OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AND TENNESSEE SALIENTS
  James Hnat, 27734 Rainy Creek Court, Fulshear, TX and Ben van der Pluijm, University of Michigan DEES, Ann Arbor, MI and Rob Van der Voo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  126815 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  VARIATION IN GEOMETRY OF THE APPALACHIAN ALLOCHTHON ACROSS THE PENNSYLVANIA SALIENT-NEW YORK RECESS
  Margaret C. Brewer-LaPorta, SUNY Purchase and LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C., Geological Consultants, Warwick, NY and Philip C. LaPorta, Warwick, NY
  132429 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  PUZZLING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SEGMENTS OF THE SINUOUS APPALACHIAN FORELAND FOLD-THRUST BELT IN NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA
  Stephen Marshak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Michael Harrison, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN and Kurtis C. Burmeister, Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
  129235 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  DID VARISCAN EUROPE BEHAVE AS AN OROCLINALLY BENT RIBBON CONTINENT DURING THE LATEST CARBONIFEROUS?
  Arlo Weil, Bryn Mawr College Dept Geology, Bryn Mawr, PA and Gabriel Gutierrez-Alonso, Univ Salamanca, Salamanca, N/A
  130839 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  APPALACHIAN SALIENTS AND REENTRANTS: SECONDARY FEATURES ATTRIBUTABLE TO BENDING OF AN ORIGINALLY LINEAR OROGEN
  Stephen T. Johnston, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC and Adam H. Monahan, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
  124534 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  THE PENNSYLVANIA SALIENT: SEISMIC AND OTHER EVIDENCE FOR AN IAPETAN ARCUATE RIFT INFLUENCE ON THE ARCUATE MAP PATTERN
  Robert D. Jacobi, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY and Stuart Loewenstein, Norse Energy Corp. USA, Buffalo, NY and Gerald Smith, Nornew, Amherst, NY and John Martin, NYSERDA, Albany, NY and Thomas Mroz, USDOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV
  130259 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  ORIGIN OF A MAJOR APPALACHIAN TRANSVERSE ZONE AND INFLECTION IN OROGENIC CURVATURE: CONSEQUENCE OF AN OBLIQUE RAMP INHERITED FROM A RIFTED-MARGIN TRANSFORM FAULT
  Christopher S. Holm-Denoma, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT and James F. Tull, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  130063 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  POSSIBLE PRESERVATION OF SALINIC CLEAVAGES IN THE PENNSYLVANIA EMBAYMENT: 40AR/39AR EVIDENCE FOR BOTH EARLY SILURIAN AND LATE DEVONIAN CLEAVAGES IN THE WESTMINSTER TERRANE, MARYLAND
  Michael J. Kunk, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and B.K. Mulvey, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and C.S. Southworth, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Robert Wintsch, 373 WALKLEY HILL ROAD, Haddam, CT
  131320 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  A TEST OF THE ACADIAN THRUST-NAPPE MODEL IN NEW ENGLAND USING 40AR/39AR COOLING AGES OF MUSCOVITE
  Cory K. McWilliams, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Michael J. Kunk, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Robert P. Wintsch, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  130992 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  FROM RIFTED MARGIN GEOMETRY TO ARC SYSTEM COMPLEXITY: REFINING OUR TECTONIC MODELS WITH BILL THOMAS IN MIND
  Elizabeth A. McClellan, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN
  127096 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:40 AM
  ROLES OF TRANSFORM FAULTS ALONG THE LAURENTIAN RIFTED MARGIN
  William A. Thomas, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  127788 (Technical Sessions)