9 New Developments in Understanding of the Avalon Terrane from the southern Appalachians to Newfoundland I

Thursday, 27 March 2003
8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:20 AM
  NEOPROTEROZOIC - EARLY PALEOZOIC EVOLUTION OF PERI-GONDWANAN TERRANES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LAURENTIA-GONDWANA CONNECTIONS
  J. Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier Univ, Antigonish, NS and Sergei A. Pisarevsky, Univ of Western Australia, Crawley, N/A and R. Damian Nance, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and J. Duncan Keppie, UNAM, Mexico DF, N/A
  49194 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  U-PB AGES OF DETRITAL ZIRCON IN QUARTZITE FROM AVALON AND ADJACENT TERRANES
  Sandra M. Barr, Acadia Univ, Wolfville, NS and Don W. Davis, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON and Sandra Kamo, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON and Chris E. White, Halifax, NS
  49708 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  BASEMENT BLOCKS IN SOUTHWESTERN CAPE BRETON ISLAND AND ADJACENT MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE AVALON TERRANE
  Chris E. White, Halifax, NS and Sandra M. Barr, Acadia Univ, Wolfville, NS and John F. Ketchum, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON and Peter H. Reynolds, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS
  49660 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  SENSE OF SHEAR ON LOW-ANGLE NEOPROTEROZOIC DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE, CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA
  Zachary, R. Wessel, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and R. Damian Nance, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and J. Duncan Keppie, UNAM, Mexico DF, N/A and J. Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier Univ, Antigonish, NS
  50290 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  POTENTIAL FIELD AND PETROPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS APPLIED TO TECTONIC ANALYSIS IN THE NORTHERN APPALACHIAN OROGEN
  M. Stephen King, Acadia Univ, Wolfville, NS and Sandra Barr, Acadia University Dept Earth & Environmental Science, Wolfville, NS
  51076 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  AVALON—NON-GONDWANAN MICROCONTINENT BY THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE PROTEROZOIC–CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL
  Ed Landing, State Education Department, Albany, NY
  50908 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  NEW PALEOMAGNETIC POLE FROM THE LATE CAMBRIAN NAHANT GABBRO, NAHANT, MASSACHUSETTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DRIFT HISTORY OF THE SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND AVALON ZONE
  Margaret D. Thompson, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA and Anne M. Grunow, Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and Jahandar Ramezani, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  50288 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  U-PB ZIRCON AGE FOR THE DUNN POINT VOLCANICS, ARISAIG, NOVA SCOTIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DRIFT OF AVALONIA AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE IAPETUS AND RHEIC OCEANS
  Mike A. Hamilton, N/A, Ottawa, ON and J. Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier Univ, Antigonish, NS
  51368 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:20 AM
  MOVEMENT DIRECTIONS AND AGE CONSTRAINTS ON MYLONITE ZONES NEAR THE AVALON TERRANE BOUNDARY NW OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ACCRETION OF AVALON IN SE NEW ENGLAND
  Edward J. Kohut, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR and J. Christopher Hepburn, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  50882 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)