13 Isotopic and Chemical Geochronology of Metamorphic Terranes in the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge and Piedmont Environs: Implications for Tectonic Mapping and Modeling

Thursday, 10 April 2008
1:30 PM - 5:35 PM

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  NORTH AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PATTERNS OF CONTINENTAL CRUSTAL GROWTH RECORDED BY DETRITAL ZIRCONS
  Peter J. Voice, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Ken Eriksson, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  136500 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:55 PM
  DETRITAL-ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF ACADIAN FORELAND BASIN STRATA OF WEST VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA
  Hyunmee Park, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Alan Rickenbaker, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and Denise Bachmann-Krug, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and David L. Barbeau, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC and George E. Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  136817 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:15 PM
  SHRIMP U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCONS FROM PARAGNEISS IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR LATE MESOPROTEROZOIC-EARLY NEOPROTEROZOIC SEDIMENTATION
  Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and John N. Aleinikoff, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO and William Burton, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Christopher Bailey, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  136022 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:35 PM
  TIMING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EMPLACEMENT OF THE PALEOZOIC VALE (CAT SQUARE) CHARNOCKITE AND WALKER TOP GRANITE, EASTERN INNER PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
  Heather Byars, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Arthur Merschat, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Robert D. Hatcher, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Joseph Wooden, Green Building, Rm 89, Stanford, CA
  136061 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:55 PM
  TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF GEOLOGIC MAPPING IN THE WESTERN NEWTON WINDOW, INNER PIEDMONT, NC
  William G. Gilliam, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Heather E. Byars, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Robert D. Hatcher, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Arthur J. Merschat, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  136398 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:15 PM
  VORTICITY, STRAIN SYMMETRY, AND MONAZITE GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BOWENS CREEK FAULT ZONE, NORTHEASTERN INNER PIEDMONT, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS, VIRGINIA
  William S. Henika, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and J. Ryan Thigpen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Philip S. Prince, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Clayton W. Loehn, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Meaghan McNeil, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Justin G. Ohlschlager, Portland State University, Portland, OR and Richard D. Law, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  136680 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:55 PM
  MID-PALEOZOIC MAGMATISM IN THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT: CONSTRAINTS FROM GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY
  Russell W. Mapes, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC and Brendan R. Bream, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and Calvin Miller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  136865 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:15 PM
  GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF BASEMENT ROCKS, DELLWOOD AREA, EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS (NC)
  Eric D. Anderson, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and D.P. Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  136818 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:35 PM
  GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, CAROLINA TERRANE, SOUTH CAROLINA
  Donald R. Privett, S.T.A.R. Environmental, Great Falls, SC
  136820 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:55 PM
  FIELD RELATIONSHIPS AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL DATA: IMPLICATIONS FOR 3-D MODEL RESULTS OF NEOPROTEROZOIC DEPOSITION AND THE PALEOZOIC STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN BLUE RIDGE, SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
  J. Ryan Thigpen, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  136674 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 5:15 PM
  DELIMITING THE SPATIAL EXTENT OF SUPERPOSED METAMORPHIC EVENTS OF THE BLUE RIDGE AND INNER PIEDMONT WITH SHRIMP U-PB AGES OF ZIRCON RIMS
  Arthur J. Merschat, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Brendan R. Bream, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Robert D. Hatcher, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Calvin Miller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Charles W. Carrigan, Olivet Nazarene University, Bourbonnais, IL
  136720 (THEME SESSIONS)