10 Petrotectonic History of the Blue Ridge Belt: Faults, Fault Blocks, Terrains, and Ophiolites

Thursday, 13 March 2003
1:00 PM - 5:20 PM

Presentations

• 1:00 PM
  THE MARS HILL TERRANE: EXTENT, AGE, AND ORIGIN OF THE OLDEST ROCKS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN USA
  Peter J. Berquist, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and C. Miller, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and J. Wooden, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and P. Fullagar, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and S. Ownby, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and C. Carrigan, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  49530 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:20 PM
  WESTERN BLUE RIDGE BASEMENT OF NORTHEAST TN AND NORTHWESTERN NC: AGE, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIPS TO PROTEROZOIC ROCKS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN USA
  Nathan D. Officer, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and P.J. Berquist, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, N/A and C.F. Miller, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and P. Fullagar, Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Joe Wooden, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Charles W. Carrigan, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  49948 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  LATE DEFORMATION FABRICS NEAR THE WESTERN AND EASTERN BLUE RIDGE BOUNDARY, EASTERN SMOKY MOUNTAINS
  Eric D. Anderson, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and David P. Moecher, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  49959 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  TACONIAN METAMORPHISM IN EASTERN GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INFERRED FROM U-TH-PB MONAZITE CHEMICAL AGES
  David P. Moecher, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Robert J. Tracy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Eric D. Anderson, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  50051 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  CHALLENGES PRESENTED BY THE ASHE METAMORPHIC SUITE FOR RECONSTRUCTING THE TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SECTION OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN
  Loren A. Raymond, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and Anthony B. Love, Boone, NC and Samuel E. Swanson, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA
  49487 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:40 PM
  SOUTHERN BLUE RIDGE TERRANES AND PROBLEMS WITH ROCK UNITS, AGES, AND TIMING OF EVENTS: READ THE DETAILED GEOLOGIC MAPS
  Robert D. Hatcher, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Brendan R. Bream, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and James O. Eckert, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  49849 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:20 PM
  DEFINING THE HAYESVILLE FAULT AND TERRANE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL-EASTERN BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA-NORTH CAROLINA
  James O. Eckert, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Robert D. Hatcher, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  49261 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  METAMORPHIC AND STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE EASTERN BLUE RIDGE-WESTERN BLUE RIDGE BOUNDARY AS EXPOSED BETWEEN SOCO AND BALSAM GAP, WESTERN NC
  Matthew A. Massey, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and David P. Moecher, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  49494 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:00 PM
  KINEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MONOCLINIC AND TRICLINIC HIGH-STRAIN ZONES IN THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE PROVINCE
  Christopher M. Bailey, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  49457 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:20 PM
  DEFORMATION PARTITIONING AMONG STRUCTURAL BLOCKS IN THE PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT OF THE NORTHERN BLUE RIDGE
  Patricia A. Campbell, Slippery Rock Univ, Slippery Rock, PA and Michael Goodman, N/A, Moon Township, PA
  49672 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:40 PM
  PETROLOGY AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF ROCKS FROM THE CHATTAHOOCHEE TUNNEL PROJECT, BREVARD FAULT ZONE, ATLANTA GA
  Adam Bedell, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA and Michael Roden, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA and Jack Raymer, Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc, Norcross, GA
  49506 (THEME SESSIONS)