2 The Northern Appalachians I: What Have We Learned in the Past 40 Years? A Symposium in Honor of J. Christopher Hepburn

Monday, 18 March 2013
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Madison Room

Presentations

• 8:10 AM
  WILL WE EVER UNDERSTAND AVALONIA?
  Sandra M. Barr, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS and Chris E. White, Halifax, NS
  215067 (Symposia Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  THE POPELOGAN-VICTORIA ARC — TETAGOUCHE-EXPLOITS BACKARC BASIN AND SALINIC OROGENESIS
  Cees van Staal, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC and Reginald Wilson, Bathurst, NB and Sandra L. Kamo, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON and Bill McClelland, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Vicki McNicoll, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON
  215164 (Symposia Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  THE LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC GREENDALE COMPLEX, AVALON TERRANE, NOVA SCOTIA: AN EXAMPLE OF FEEDBACK BETWEEN IGNEOUS AND TECTONIC PROCESSES
  Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS
  216303 (Symposia Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  THE TACONIAN OROGENY IN THE QUÉBEC APPALACHIANS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SINCE ST-JULIEN & HUBERT (1975)?
  Alain Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC
  215525 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  WHAT IS THE ROLE OF ANDEAN MARGIN PROCESSES IN THE EVOLUTION OF PALEOZOIC NORTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGENIC BELTS?
  Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  216156 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  THE MORETOWN FORMATION: EVIDENCE FOR THE DASHWOODS TERRAIN IN THE NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIANS
  Paul Karabinos, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  215969 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  STRUCTURAL AND PETROLOGIC ANALYSIS OF/IN THE MORETOWN FM, WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: CONSTRAINING REGIONAL TECTONICS AND ILLUMINATING DEFORMATION PROCESSES
  M.L. Williams, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA and A. Machek, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Amherst, MA and M.J. Jercinovic, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Felice Naus-Thijssen, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Scott Johnson, Flagstaff, AZ
  216268 (Symposia Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  REVISITING THE "CHICKEN YARD LINE" AND THE "WHATELY FAULT", MASSACHUSETTS AND VERMONT
  W.E. Trzcienski, McGill University, Montreal, QC and J.B. Thompson, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and John Rosenfeld, UCLA, Los Angeles, N/A and J. Christopher Hepburn, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  215108 (Symposia Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  THE ERVING FORMATION, WEST-CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: WHAT HAS BEEN LEARNED IN THE LAST HALF CENTURY?
  Peter Robinson, Geol Survey of Norway, Trondheim, N/A and J. Christopher Hepburn, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  215220 (Symposia Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  THE EMSIAN PISCATAQUIS MAGMATIC BELT IN THE UPPER CONNECTICUT VALLEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT
  Douglas W. Rankin, US Geol Survey, Reston, VA and Robert D. Tucker, US Geol Survey, Reston, VA and R. Buchwaldt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  216020 (Symposia Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  REVISITING THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM THE COASTAL VOLCANIC BELT IN THE MACHIAS-EASTPORT AREA: EVIDENCE FOR A PRE-ACADIAN ARC?
  Aranzazu Pinan-Llamas, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN
  216566 (Symposia Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  NEOTECTONICS AND THE ACCRETED TERRANES OF NEW ENGLAND
  John E. Ebel, Boston College, Weston, MA
  215492 (Symposia Sessions)
• 11:40 AM
  THE NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEM: FORTY YEARS OF STUDY DIRECTED AT UNDERSTANDING 250 MILLION YEARS OF TECTONIC ACTIVITY
  David P. West, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT and Allan Ludman, Queens College, Flushing, NY
  215817 (Symposia Sessions)