T243 New Insights on the Tectonic, Magmatic, Paleobiogeographic, and Metallogenic Evolution of Terranes in the North American Cordillera from Alaska to California I

Wednesday, 3 November 2010
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 406

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  A PALEOZOIC NORTHWEST PASSAGE AND THE TIMANIAN, CALEDONIAN AND URALIAN CONNECTIONS OF SOME EXOTIC TERRANES IN THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERAN
  Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT and JoAnne Nelson, Victoria, BC
  174756 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  BALTICA IN THE CORDILLERA?
  Elizabeth Miller, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Nikolay Kuznetsov, Geological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, N/A and Anna Soboleva, Uralian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, N/A and Oxana Udoratina, Uralian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, N/A and Marty Grove, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and G.E. Gehrels, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  177523 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  DETRITAL ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY OF NEOPROTEROZOIC AND PALEOZOIC UNITS OF THE PEARYA TERRANE, ELLESMERE ISLAND, CANADA
  Shawn Joseph Malone, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Bill McClelland, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  182470 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ARCTIC ALASKA-CHUKOTKA TERRANE BASED ON ZIRCON AND PALEONTOLOGIC DATA FROM SEWARD PENINSULA
  Alison B. Till, USGS, Anchorage, AK and Julie Dumoulin, US Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK and Dwight C. Bradley, USGS, Anchorage, AK
  178930 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF U-PB DETRITAL ZIRCON RESULTS FROM PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN BASEMENT ROCKS OF THE NORTHEAST BROOKS RANGE, ARCTIC ALASKA TERRANE, NORTHERN ALASKA
  Thomas Moore, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Kenneth J. Bird, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  179876 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  RECOGNITION OF A REGIONAL ORDOVICIAN VALMY FORMATION THRUST SHEET: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSEMBLY OF THE ROBERTS MOUNTAINS ALLOCHTHON AND EXPLORATION FOR CONCEALED CARLIN-TYPE GOLD DEPOSITS
  Christopher S. Holm-Denoma, United States Geological Survey, Denver, CO and A.H Hofstra, USGS, Denver, CO and Richard C. Capps, Evans, GA and Paula J. Noble, University of Nevada, Reno, NV and Barnaby W. Rockwell, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  177461 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  UPPER ORDOVICIAN-MIDDLE DEVONIAN PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNALS FROM SHELLY FAUNAS OF THE ALEXANDER TERRANE, SOUTHEAST ALASKA
  Robert B. Blodgett, Geological Consultant, Anchorage, AK and David M. Rohr, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX
  179426 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  CRUSTAL AFFINITY OF LATE CAMBRIAN-EARLY ORDOVICIAN ROCKS IN THE NORTHERN ALEXANDER TERRANE, NORTHWESTERN CANADA
  Luke P. Beranek, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC and Cees van Staal, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC and Bill McClelland, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Steve A. Israel, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT and Mitchell Mihalynuk, 1810 Blanshard St Cordilleran Geoscience, Victoria, BC and Sarah M. Gordee, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, N/A and Nancy Joyce, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  178559 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  NEW DATA AND IDEAS ON THE PALEOZOIC-TRIASSIC EVOLUTION OF THE INSULAR SUPERTERRANE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA
  Cees R. van Staal, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC and Luke Beranek, Vancouver, BC and Steve A. Israel, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT and Bill McClelland, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Mitchell Mihalynuk, 1810 Blanshard St Cordilleran Geoscience, Victoria, BC and JoAnne Nelson, Victoria, BC and Nancy Joyce, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  175846 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  STRATIGRAPHIC AND PALEOTECTONIC STUDIES OF THE MIDDLE PALEOZOIC SICKER GROUP AND CONTAINED VMS OCCURRENCES, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA
  Tyler William Ruks, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and James K. Mortensen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Fabrice Cordey, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne
  181694 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  GEOLOGIC RELATIONSHIPS OF WRANGELLIA IN YUKON: IMPLICATIONS FOR INSULAR TERRANE TECTONICS
  Steve A. Israel, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT and Richard Friedman, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and James K. Mortensen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  178051 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  THE DUKE RIVER FAULT, SOUTHWEST YUKON: PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WRANGELLIA AND THE ALEXANDER TERRANE
  Rose Cobbett, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and James K. Mortensen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Steve A. Israel, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT and C.R. van Staal, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC
  179771 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  TRACKING THE FUGITIVE WRANGELLIAN ARC
  William J. Collins, James Cook University, Townsville, N/A and Robert Miller, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA
  177754 (Technical Sessions)