5 The Iapetan Rifted Margin and Rift History of Eastern Laurentia I

Sunday, 14 March 2010
8:00 AM - 12:05 PM
Liberty B

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  CAMBRIAN DEEP MARINE COARSE-GRAINED CHANNEL-FILL SUCCESSIONS IN EASTERN QUEBEC; THE RECORD OF EUSTATIC AND TECTONIC EVENTS ALONG THE IAPETAN RIFTED MARGIN
  Denis Lavoie, Geological Survey of Canada, Quebec City, QC
  168763 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  THE PENNSYLVANIA SALIENT: AN EXAMPLE OF THE RAGGED IAPTEAN RIFTED MARGIN OF LAURENTIA
  Robert D. Jacobi, Norse Energy Corp. USA, Buffalo, NY and Stuart Loewenstein, Norse Energy Corp. USA, Buffalo, NY and Al Leaver, Norse Energy Corp. USA, Buffalo, NY and Gerald Smith, Norse Energy Corp. USA, Buffalo, NY and John Martin, NYSERDA, Albany, NY and Thomas Mroz, USDOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV
  170182 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  DETRITAL ZIRCON AGES FROM THE WESTERN PIEDMONT OF PENNSYLVANIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR TERRANE BOUNDARIES AND THE EARLY PALEOZOIC LAURENTIAN MARGIN
  Gale Blackmer, Harrisburg, PA and Howell Bosbyshell, West Chester Univ, West Chester, PA
  169269 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  STRATIGRAPHY AND TECTONIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ROCKS OF THE IAPETAN RIFTED MARGIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA EMBAYMENT: FRAMEWORK OF THE WESTERN PIEDMONT WESTMINSTER TERRANE, FREDERICK VALLEY SYNCLINORIUM, AND BLUE RIDGE-SOUTH MOUNTAIN ANTICLINORIUM, MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA
  Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Robert Wintsch, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Michael J. Kunk, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Avery Ala Drake, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and B.K. Mulvey, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Charles N. Naeser, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Nancy Naeser, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  168845 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  A MODEL FOR IAPETAN RIFTING OF LAURENTIA BASED ON NEOPROTEROZOIC DIKES AND RELATED ROCKS
  William C. Burton, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  169845 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  PROVENANCE ANALYSIS OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC OCOEE SUPERGROUP, EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, NC/TN
  Suvankar Chakraborty, University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and David Moecher, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Scott D. Samson, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
  169016 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:25 AM
  EVIDENCE FOR LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC DEPOSITION OF THE OCOEE SUPERGROUP: SHRIMP U-PB AND TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF DIAGENETIC XENOTIME AND MONAZITE
  John N. Aleinikoff, USGS, Denver, CO and Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and C. Mark Fanning, Australian National Univ, Canberra, ACT, N/A and F.K. Mazdab, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  168852 (Theme Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  THE “GREAT SMOKY GROUP, OCOEE SUPERGROUP” IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA; LATE PROTEROZOIC RIFT-FILL DEPOSITS OR MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN THRUST-BASIN DEPOSITS?
  Michael W. Higgins, The Geologic Mapping Institute, Clayton, GA
  170017 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:05 AM
  A NEW WORKING MODEL FOR DEPOSITION AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CHILHOWEE GROUP IN THE BLUE RIDGE OF VIRGINIA
  Joseph P. Smoot, U.S. Geological Survey (emeritus), Reston, VA and Scott Southworth, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  168914 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  EVOLUTION OF THE LAURENTIAN RIFTED MARGIN IN THE SOUTHERNMOST APPALACHIANS
  James F. Tull, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  168772 (Theme Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  TRANSFORM-PARALLEL AND RIFT-PARALLEL INTRACRATONIC FAULT SYSTEMS AROUND THE OUACHITA EMBAYMENT OF THE IAPETAN RIFTED MARGIN OF SOUTHERN LAURENTIA
  William A. Thomas, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  168592 (Theme Sessions)