4 Historical Perspectives: 250 Years of Geology in the Northeast

Sunday, 18 March 2012
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Ballroom B

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  DISTRIBUTION OF CONTINENTS, MOUNTAINS, OCEAN DEEPS, AS CONSIDERED BY ROSS GUNN (1947, 1949)
  Cyril Galvin, Coastal Engineer, Springfield, VA
  200175 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  CONTROVERSIES OVER OVERTHRUSTS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA PEIDMONT
  Charles K. Scharnberger, Millersville University, Millersville, PA and Jeri L. Jones, Jones Geological Services, Spring Grove, PA
  200129 (Theme Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE ROCKS UNDERLYING BOSTON HARBOR: NEW INSIGHTS ON THE CAMBRIDGE ARGILLITE AND ASSOCIATED DIAMICTITES AND DIABASE SILLS
  Peter J. Thompson, Univ of New Hampshire, Durham, NH and Joseph P. Kopera, Massachusetts Geological Survey, Amherst, MA and Daniel R. Solway, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
  199957 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  THE PETROSILEX PROBLEM
  David M. Cregger, Winchester, MA
  200672 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:20 AM
  TWO DECADES OF OVERLAP BETWEEN PROFESSORS MARLAND P. BILLINGS AND JAMES B. THOMPSON, JR. IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AND THE IMPACT ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF NEW ENGLAND BEDROCK GEOLOGY
  Douglas W. Rankin, US Geol Survey, Reston, VA and M.R. Van Baalen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  199422 (Theme Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  THE STURGIS HOOPER PROFESSORS OF GEOLOGY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTHEASTERN GEOLOGY SINCE 1865
  M.R. Van Baalen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  200085 (Theme Sessions)