16 New Insights into the Midcontinent Rift and Continental Rifting

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
1:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Hall of Ideas H

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  PERCEPTION OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT BY PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON IT: A VIEW OF PUBLIC EARTH SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE
  William Rose, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI and Erika Vye, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
  255306 (Theme Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  ­NORTH AMERICA’S MIDCONTINENT RIFT: WHEN RIFT MET LIP
  Carol Stein, University of Illinois at Chicago Dept. of Earth & Environmental Science, Chicago, IL and Jonas Kley, University of Goettingen, Goettingen and Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and David Hindle, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, N/A and G. Randy Keller, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  254853 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  HIGH-RESOLUTION CRUSTAL STRUCTURE NEAR AND OF THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM IN NORTH AMERICA USING P-WAVE RECEIVER FUNCTIONS
  Hao Zhang, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  255624 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  NICKEL ISOTOPES IN THE DULUTH COMPLEX: EVIDENCE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION DURING THE FORMATION OF CU-NI-PGE SULFIDE DEPOSITS
  Kristofer Asp, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN and Christian Schardt, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN and Lev J. Spivak-Birndorf, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
  255699 (Theme Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  IS THERE A FRAGMENT OF THE LAURENTIAN MIDCONTINENT RIFT IN EAST ANTARCTICA?
  Ian W.D. Dalziel, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  255686 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  ALTITUDE MATTERS: ASSESSMENT OF SO2 CLOUDS FROM THE 2006 ERUPTION OF NYAMURAGIRA VOLCANO (D.R. CONGO, AFRICA)
  Elisabet M. Head, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL and Simon A. Carn, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
  256044 (Theme Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  AGE OF THE JACOBSVILLE SANDSTONE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT
  Carol Stein, University of Illinois at Chicago Dept. of Earth & Environmental Science, Chicago, IL and Jonas Kley, University of Goettingen, Goettingen and Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and John P. Craddock, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN and David H. Malone, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
  254857 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  MICROBIALLY INDUCED SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES AND LARGE SAND STROMATOLITES IN THE TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE/LACUSTRINE-TRANSITIONAL BAYFIELD GROUP (PROTEROZOIC), WISCONSIN
  Esther K. Stewart, Madison, WI and Karen G. Havholm, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Lynn Galston, Houston, TX and James Zambito, University of Wisconsin–Extension, Madison, WI and Carol M. Dehler, Utah State University, Logan, UT
  255253 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  NEOPROTEROZOIC TRANSCONTINENTAL RIVERS AND A POSSIBLE JACOBSVILLE/BAYFIELD GROUP -- UINTA MOUNTAIN GROUP CONNECTION
  Paul K. Link, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Esther K. Stewart, Madison, WI and Carol M. Dehler, Utah State University, Logan, UT and Shannon Osterhout, Denver, CO
  255631 (Theme Sessions)