13 New Discoveries in Resolving the Terrane Assembly of Western North American and Northeast Asia

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Lecture Hall

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  THE OCEANIC CRUST OF THE ALEUTIAN BASIN IS A LARGE, TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC TERRANE ACCRETED TO THE NORTH AMERICA PLATE--EVIDENCE AND IODP DRILLING TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS
  David Scholl, USGS Emeritus, Menlo Park, CA and Warren Nokleberg, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and James W.H. Monger, Geological Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC and Thomas K. Bundtzen, Pacific Rim Geological Consulting, Fairbanks, AK and Raymond A. Price, Queen's Univ, Kingston, ON and David B. Stone, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
  254841 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  VALIDITY OF KOLYMA-OMOLONSKYI SUPERTERRANE OR KOLYMA REGION (NORTHEAST EURASIA) FROM THE VIEW POINT OF MIDDLE PALEOZOIC PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
  Valeryi V. Baranov, Yakutsk Research Center, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk and Robert Blodgett, Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), Anchorage, NY
  254755 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE THE STRATIGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE PERATROVICH FORMATION AND LADRONES LIMESTONE
  Philip A. Frederick, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Thomas Shiller, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and David M. Rohr, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX and James F. Baichtal, Thorne Bay, AK
  255088 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  AN OVERLOOKED PERMIAN UNIT IN THE CRAIG QUADRANGLE, ALEXANDER TERRANE, SE ALASKA
  James F. Baichtal, Thorne Bay, AK and Robert Blodgett, Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), Anchorage, NY and Philip A. Frederick, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and David M. Rohr, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX and Thomas Shiller, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and Calvin H. Stevens, San José State University, San José, CA
  254873 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  SIBERIAN ORIGIN OF PALEOZOIC ROCKS OF ARCTIC ALASKA-CHUKOTKA AND SOME SOUTHERN ALASKAN TERRANES: EVIDENCE FROM MEGAFOSSIL AND PALEOMAGNETIC DATA
  James G. Clough, Fairbanks, AK and Robert Blodgett, Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), Anchorage, NY and Trond H. Torsvik, University of Oslo, Oslo and David B. Stone, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Valeryi Baranov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk Research Center, Siberian Division, Yakutsk
  255132 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  E-BOOK PUBLICATION ON DYNAMIC GEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN CORDILLERA (ALASKA AND WESTERN CANADA)
  Warren Nokleberg, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and James W.H. Monger, Vancouver, CA and Thomas K. Bundtzen, Pacific Rim Geological Consulting, Fairbanks, AK and Raymond A. Price, Queen's Univ, Kingston, ON and David Scholl, USGS Emeritus, Menlo Park, CA and David B. Stone, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
  254691 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  NORTHERN CORDILLERA TECTONIC MODEL
  James W.H. Monger, Salt Spring Island, BC and Warren Nokleberg, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Raymond A. Price, Queens University, Kingston, ON and Thomas K. Bundtzen, Pacific Rim Geological Consulting, Fairbanks, AK and Thomas Moore, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and David Scholl, University of Alaska Fairbanks and U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and David B. Stone, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
  254847 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  NEW U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY AND FOSSIL AGE CONTROL, EARN GROUP NEAR ANVIL LAKE, CENTRAL YUKON
  Rose Cobbett, Whitehorse, YT and Jim Crowley, Boise, ID and Fabrice Cordey, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne and Charles M. Henderson, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Robert Blodgett, Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), Anchorage, NY
  254769 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  TERRANE CONCEPT, HELP OR HINDRANCE?  AN ALASKA PERSPECTIVE
  Frederic Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK
  255021 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  EARLY AND MIDDLE DEVONIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM SOUTHERN ALASKA – IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY AND TERRANE ACCRETION
  Robert Blodgett, Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), Anchorage, NY and Valeryi V. Baranov, Yakutsk Research Center, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk
  255141 (Theme Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  TABULATA AND HELIOLITOIDEA CORALS FROM THE LOWER DEVONIAN (PRAGIAN) SODA CREEK LIMESTONE, FAREWELL TERRANE, WEST-CENTRAL ALASKA
  Yury V. Zaika, United Enterprise "Geoservice", Minsk and Robert Blodgett, Blodgett & Associates LLC, (Geological & Paleontological Consultants), Anchorage, NY and Valeryi V. Baranov, Yakutsk Research Center, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk
  254488 (Theme Sessions)